Methods

So far I am still working on reading my text. I started by figuring some of the basic items such as writing down questions, like "why did the author choose to have chapters from the perspectives of four men and four women?" as well as the significance of the length of those chapters. I made a chart of characters and how they intertwine and highlighted the characters that actually have chapters. I also figured the number of pages allotted to each chapter which let to another question of "why have the women been given more pages than the men" and "why does the longest chapter belong to the high school girl involved in an affair with one of the main characters"
Moving on from this I would really like to focus on the multiculturalism aspect as well as the pornographic/vulgar language used in the novel. I definitely need to find more sources and branch out into the weeds to find specifics on these issues as well as bringing in examples from other text. I would really like to find a way to tie this into actual pornography issues in relationships and the problems that it tends to cause but I haven't been able to pinpoint that link just yet. I also don't know if it would be a stretch to bring in romantic and erotica literature as well as possibly excerpts from explicit pornographic literature to see the different analysis on the language and effects of the language. I don't know if where I am looking at going would require too much of a statistical analysis to be plausible for an English thesis or if this is too far down an "inappropriate" rabbit hole.
I am hoping to have my book completed by the first of November so that I can see what type of information I can add into this. By that point I should have enough from the novel to validate or invalidate my possible argument. If not I am also considering the link between pornography and family violence. It is very possible with approval I may add this in anyways especially if the novel continues the way it has been going so far.