Deconstruction/Deconstructionism Approach: Metro-Pop By Fran Ilich

Metro-pop, a juvenile fiction, considered a book that offers no answers but questions. With a biting tone, the protagonist (Sasha Daniel) focuses on the mass culture, where the only way to overcomethe anonymity is by seeing life through the existentialism lens. First person narrator, witnesses an account of his dull life in Tijuana, a city marked by its frontiers. The global, the rapid pace andboredom permeate the questions posed by the narrator, through which a society echoes. The fragmented structure opens questions about the traditional rules and approaches to young readers a differentperspective, which finds points of agreement and disagreement that invite them to think about their own world. However wearing the deconstruction glasses with which to see the author‘s main point, oneinterprets multiple meanings of the text and at the same time contradictory.
Daniel was the epitome of that young rebel careless student, who will more likely go against the stated rules. Theauthor, Fran Ilich, urges readers to revolt against the standard way of living: that one should revolt against the corrupted government, against the media and its prefabricated androgynous singers, but assoon as he describes the reality of the rotten society values, the claim turns pessimistic. The text evolves from being immature and fictional to an admiring pessimism. The way he hates to “becomeanother number more of society” helps readers understand the condition of the world. That how humans develop such a perfect environment set of rules and steps for the rest to follow but at the same timehow humans ludicrously eschew those “moral values”. Therefore what is the purpose of guiding a civilization if few (if not none) will follow? Ilich implies that much of what humans follow lacks ofconsistency yet it requires a race extermination to redeem the problem. For instance patriotism “In schools we are filled with garbage, they make us believe in retarded stories like the four heroic...