007 post 2

Tonight I am going to talk about the person who writes the books I am reading. The author of the James Bond series is a man be the name of Ian Fleming( who apparently at one point was in the secret service.) So what I want to write about more specifically is the writing style Fleming uses. As you can imagine one of the most important traits a secret agent can have is the ability to read people, to guess their intentions or lifestyle by studying them. James Bond can do that very well, and Fleming does a excellent  job of illustrating that trait. First when ever Bond meets someone Fleming goes into a very detailed description of what they look like , what they are wearing, and what this can tell us about them ( a basic example would be  expensive cigarettes mean high quality taste, rich, maybe over confident, as they purchase and over priced cigarette(rich) and smoke/ show it off (over confident) in public). Through this we can see two very essential and interesting things. First we see how Bond's mind works and how his so vital assumptions are made. We are given reasons and assumptions which will help us later in the book. Also these descriptions tell us about the character , what their personality is like and how they think along with giving us a very detailed physical description. These passages are fun and interesting to read, and Fleming is fast becoming one of my favorite authors to read.