Doctorow's Style

This semester i have read some very great literature that was written by E.L Doctorow. Now that it has come to and end, and all of my reading is done I can come to a conclusion about some of the ways Doctorow tries to get points across to his readers. Doctorow goes about telling stoies about the early to mid 1900's. He goes about it in a very unorthadox way. He makes sure that it is a very fast paced, high enrgy book that one would have to keep reading just to see what happened next. Although his characters he uses are mostly fictional (there are some exeptions such as Emma Goldman in ragtime), and pretty outrageous at times, I believe some of the characters are in a way a little part of him. When Doctorow wrote Billy Bath gate for example I believe that some of the ideas and things that the characters carried out were either already done by Docotorow in his childhood, or were passions that he has laways wanted to live but never did. Another thing about the characters that he chooses is that sometimes he does use a real person. What he dosent do though is make it realisitc. he takes a character such as Haryy Houdidni for example. he takes Harry Houdidni and puts him in situations, and sceneces in the story where the reader would have to stop back up and make sure they just read that right. he uses characters and falsfies their lives. Altogther though E.L Doctorow books have been a pleasure to read and have so many twists and things that you would never guess to happen. With all of the jumping around form scene to scene, character to character, it sometimes is a trip trying to keep up with Doctorows fast paced, energetic novels.