Neuromancer Part I

In William Gibson’s book, The Neuromancer, he starts introducing two characters named Case and Ratz. Case, who lives in Night City, is twenty-four and operates on an almost permanent adrenaline high, a byproduct of youth and proficiency. In chapter one, Neuromancer takes place in The Chatsubo, a bar where people drink and do illegal activities. After reading couple pages from chapter one, the reader may not have a good impression on the city since there are many criminals and prostitutes. For example, Case has watched knife battles as entertainments, worked as a thief, and worked with other thieves to penetrate the bright walls of corporate systems.

Night City, where Chatsubo is located, is a place where there are not any laws and technology is being sold or bought. Gibson describes Chiba City as, “The Sky above the port was the color of television, turned into a dead channel” (1). Gibson expresses that something has occurred during this time since “dead channel” means something has died after an event occurred. This is an odd quote because nature is what people describe as beautiful; however, Gibson prefers technology as beautiful because he mentions the color television. But some major war must have occurred because Gibson mentions the color television turning into a dead television. Before the outbreak, the setting of the story is probably a peaceful place, but after something happened, the setting changed more into a criminal and dirty place. Gibson uses this to attract the reader’s attention on knowing what happened to Chiba city.