Part 1, Chapter 2īefore the trip, Duke called a magazine in New York and asked them to get him a dirt bike. After this phone call with Gonzo there, Duke said that he would be going with him on this assignment because he will need legal advice during it all. He was told to go immediately and meet Lacerda, a Portuguese photographer, for it. The day before they were sitting at the Polo Lounge in Beverly Hills when Duke was assigned the Mint 400 story by his magazine. Duke says he has known him for a long time and knows how valuable he is to him. They won’t hurt him because they are on their way to Las Vegas for a vacation in order to find the American dream-the car called The Great Red Shark is how they plan on doing this.ĭuke tells the hitchhiker that his lawyer, Gonzo, is Samoan. He decides to explain things so the hitchhiker will feel better about his fate and not worry about what they’re going to do with him. Duke realizes that he might be talking out loud. If the hitchhiker is still alive, they’ll have to kill him. “Will this hitchhiker make that connection when my attorney starts screaming about bats and huge manta rays coming down on the car?” “This same desert was home to the Manson family,” he thinks. The man driving is worried that the kid will realize they’re high on drugs. It would be a horrible, slobbering sort of state for the next hundred miles or so.”Ī hitchhiker runs up to the car, and he’s never been in a convertible before. We’d taken some of everything except that so far, and now we were going to get into that too. I was only really worried about the ether because it makes people incredibly disoriented and irresponsible. “We didn’t need all those drugs, but once you start collecting them, the tendency is to collect as many as possible. They have also advanced him $300, most of which he has spent on drugs, including two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine (whole galaxy) and many other uppers (laughers), downers (screamers), etc. As a professional journalist with an obligation to cover stories accurately, Duke needs to write about this one even though it may not be good or bad for him personally because he will just report what is happening around him honestly and objectively.Ī fashionable sporting magazine has already reserved Duke a hotel room in Las Vegas and rented him the Great Red Shark. They are still about 100 miles from Vegas so they need to get there by 4:00 pm for press registration at the Mint 400 race event that day.
“It’s your turn to drive,” says Duke as he pulls the car over on the side of the road. Gonzo, are driving to Las Vegas in a red convertible when they begin taking drugs. 1-Page Summary of Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas Overall Summary Part 1, Chapter 1Ī journalist named Raoul Duke and his attorney, Dr.
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