The Study of Non-Linear Dynamic System: A Postmodern Analysis of I Am Thinking of Ending Things by Ian Reid

This is a postmodern non-linear analysis of Ian Reid’s novel ‘I Am Thinking of Ending Things’A non-linear dynamic system denies the proportions of input and output by exhibiting chaos, unpredictability, and privileging determinism and a disproportion between cause and effect. Postmodernism stresses randomness on one hand and exact predictability on the other hand, emphasizing fragmentation, turbulence, disunity, and non-linearity. This research investigates chaos and non-linearity that undercuts the apparently cohesive and proportioned lives of human beings. The objectives of this research are to locate non-linear capacity of human mind where order and disorder cohabit, and to observe fragmented and disunited beings tied in chaotic relationships. This paper explores the pluralism of a being by pursuing disordered, unfamiliar, unpredictable, fleeting and blurred fractals, tangled in forms of memories, thoughts, and feelings in the apparently concrete, unified and, ordered life. Chaos theory, particularly in the dimension of non-linear dynamic effect has provides the theoretical framework to this research. This research shows that apparently normal human lives are marred by internal non-linear dynamic systems that are characterized by fragmentation and chaos.