Van Go flees, and by the end of the novel, Van Go is captured by the police. Van Go goes on the Snookie Cane show to dispute his children with the women from his past, when the studio is surrounded by police there to arrest him for raping a woman named Penelope Dalton. Throughout the novel, Van Go rapes multiple women and refuses to pay for the children of the past women he has slept with. “My Pafology” follows the life of a troubled young black man living in the ghetto named Van Go Jenkins. Monk’s journal then cuts off, and “My Pafology” begins. Leigh, because he is too ashamed by the novel to put his own name on it. Monk, upset that a racist novel riddled with stereotypes such as “We’s Lives in da Ghetto” can be successful while his novels are not, writes a parody of Jenkin’s novel titled “My Pafology.” Instead of using his own name, however, Monk uses the pen name Stagg R. Later, after Monk’s conference, Lisa is murdered at work by an anti-abortionist.įor the first few chapters, Monk mentions a novel titled “We’s Lives in da Ghetto,” written by a black author named Juanita Mae Jenkins. Lisa laments their mother and how difficult it is taking care of her by herself. She picks him up, and they discuss their lives and family. Monk describes how he does not believe that Lisa hates him, but their relationship is definitely tense. Before the conference, he meets with his sister, Lisa, who works at women’s health clinic. As an author and black person, Monk is expected to write “black” stories: he retells a story wherein he is told by an agent that he should stop writing about Greek mythology, and instead write about the hardships of black life.Īfter a brief journal entry about woodworking, Monk writes about a conference that he went to in Washington. He then goes on to discuss race, explaining how he personally does not see race, but based on the world he lives in - a world that does see race - he is black. Percival Everett’s novel opens with its narrator, Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, describing how what is presently being read is actually his journal. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous

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