about our spines'" (Delillo 18). We could almost imagine that the white noise referred to could also be the noise of the television forever on in the background with its continual influencing the actions and reactions of those around it. Acclimatizing them to the fact life is continual, or showing the aspects of death, but it not until after the toxic incident that it has any effect in reducing the strangeness of death to Jack.The end of the book indicates that the final stages of life themselves may bring about a partially change in attitude to death. Approaching the murder attempt, Jack hears "a noise, faint, monotonous, white" (Delillo 306). Thos may be the white noise, which is always p[resent the sound of death around us from which we can never escape, and as Jack nears the murder attempt we see him becoming more aware of its presence. We also see the presence of religion at the end of the book in the form of a nun Sister Hermann Marie. However her comfort is cynical and appears to be strange for when talking of heaven , angels and hell she says " If we did not pretend to believe these things, the world would collapse" (Delillo 318). The words of the German prayers which the nun 'sprays' on Jack he finds a comfort and beautiful (Delillo 320). At this stage we start to see an acceptance rather than a fear but this is indicated in the way Jack is thinking rather than his actual words "...he wouldn't die..., which gave him the edge on me" (Delillo 320). On its own this is not a strong enough sentence, but after this the next page says "There was nothing to do but wait for the next sunset, when the sky would ring like bronze" (Delillo 321). In this he appears to accept it as he is now resigned to it. The resignation of the self to an inevitable event can also bring relief to the individual in place of the fear. In accepting it we can argue that death has become less strange as what is familiar is not strange to us. This interpretation ...
