Sub-plots

The Blackhouse: the history of the Blackhouse. Reveals: Jesus's childhood; his introduction to the underclass and substance abusers; world in which the flavour of the novel exists; Nuran - Jesus's all consuming and tragic psycho-sexual relationship, the breakdown of which was the last tragedy prior to his descent into heroin addiction. Reveals: Romance, passion and eroticism - often decadent because of its extremity. Jesus's true emotional inheritance from childhood and adolescence; self-destructive tendencies in the face of his great passions; a tendency to enjoy the idea of suffering before those you love, which is equally a tendency to punish those who love or loved you by pushing ones own suffering and tragedy in their faces. The Mother - the mother's life and death revealed as a sub-plot. reveals: insights into Jesus's adult emotional self; hints as to why he maybe took the route of heroin himself; his ideas on loneliness and detachment and his search to somehow find root with something now his immediate family are all dead; incestuous undertones (which includes the very intimate nature of living heroin addiction together whereby mother and son shooting up together is not incestuous in any sexual sense but in an intimate sense). Jean-Baptiste: long term junk buddy Reveals: Jesus outside of emotional relationships; tales of junk life and daily using;


Nuran, Jesus' Turkish wife:

As with all the sub-plots it will unfold gradually throughout the course of the novel.

Meeting

Romance

First psychotic  breakdown

Engagement

disappearance

hunt

rehab in order to travel to france to trackher down

france

failure

return great distress