The Andromeda Strain | Techniques
Crichton, more than any other popular novelist, is a child of the age of film. He describes things cinematicalry, as though he is looking through a camera's eye. This is a familiar point of view for his audience; it permits the use of specific accepted visual and narrative conventions to be combined in interesting, acceptable, and effective ways, and it produces prose that is easily translated to the screen.
The most important element in Crichton's style is a realistic tone, a sense that the events being portrayed actually happened and that the author is merely reporting what...
[The entire page is 825 words long]
Join eNotes
Over 3,500 study guides, question and answer forums, literature criticism, reference content, and much more!
Navigate
Tell a friend about The Andromeda Strain at eNotes.
