This short essay is by Aaron Sherman, a high school student in 1997. Gonzo has evolved throughout Thompson's life as a new and interesting way to represent his ideals. The majority of Thompson's books and writing are classified as non-fiction, and are largely based upon society and politics.
Gonzo journalism is a style of new journalism.
A gonzo journalist does not proofread his work, because that would take away from the spontaneous of the event. A Gonzo journalist will witness an event, and either at the time of it, or shortly thereafter completely write about it. The article written also takes no claim at all to be objective. An objective piece tries to deliver a story with no biases, whereas a subjective piece is quite biased one way or another. It is felt, that the author owes it to be subjective, due to human nature to be biased.