As of right now, I’m really pissed at Clarissa’s mother. I do not understand why she left and I feel like I need closure in order to feel sorry at all for the mother. It seems like the mother was a lonely woman, and lived a sad life, but she didn’t appreciate anything she had right in front of her. So because of that, even if she does have a sad story as to why she had to leave, I feel nothing towards her.
I am just totally baffled as to why any person would leave the people who love her most, leave the people she is supposed to love the most. That is probably a big border for me. I just don’t get it. The mother is totally unsatisfied with her love life; she leaves her first husband, she is kissing Mr. Wells (the theater man), and leaves another man who pampers her. She is also totally unsatisfied with her kids it seems, never paying the attention the children deserved. Lastly, she seems to never be content with one of her friends. I just don’t understand the mother, which I will say one hundred times over. A child never deserves to have someone leave them without at least a goodbye or explanation.
Another border that is hard for me to understand is the feeling she has when she first sees her father. I mean, I grew up with my father by my side at all times; I’m a complete daddy’s girl (which she appeared to be after her mom left and before her “other” dad died). However, now she is looking at her real father and I can’t even imagine how that would feel to want to know someone so bad, but at the same time, not wanting them to interrupt your life at all. I guess she does want him to interrupt her life since she went looking for him though.
I just don’t think her mother ever realized or decided to think of the consequences her actions would lead to. Because of sketchy mothering and hidden past, it has totally screwed up one of her children. Clarissa has to back track to the beginning just to figure everything out. I wonder if she is finding her real father because she wants to know her father or if she is really hoping to get some information on her mother; she obviously wants closure for her mother leaving like I do.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Friday, January 23, 2009
Reading :)
When we read a story, we inhabit it.The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story.And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own. - John Berger
This quote best describes the majority of my reading habits. When I pick up a really good book, I tend to attack it and get totally lost in its world. I am so fascinated by the exciting action and life in the book that I cannot put it down until I know everything. I love reading all different styles of writing, but one’s that have truly taken me over and lost me in their world are the mystical works, taking place in a different time or world.
Of course, the top two are probably the most popular right now anyways, but I would like to say I got caught up in them BEFORE the movies came out. The ones I started reading first were the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. As soon as I jumped into their world, I couldn’t stop. I began looking forward to book release dates and buying them the day of. It was probably an unhealthy habit, but I loved it. My other set of books is the Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer. I didn’t start reading them right when they came out, but I caught wind of them from friends and I had to start. Once I did, it was next to impossible to stop. I would seriously stop doing homework for days at a time just to finish the book. If I didn’t read it all at once, I would be thinking about what would happen next and sometimes it became an obsession (but not in a creepy way). These both are my reading for enjoyment books, which normally takes place during the summer or breaks because, like I said before, I tend to stop doing homework when I start a good book.
Other books fascinate me as well, not only because I am stunned that my teachers have chosen them for us to read, but because it is always a book I wouldn’t have picked for myself. Of course, I end up loving it. One of my favorites and a classic is To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. This is set in such a different time, so I should have known I would have loved it; any book written of a different time or place I will love. Some other books I have enjoyed in high school are Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Gulliver’s Travels by Lemuel Gulliver, and Rebecca by Alfred Hitchcock. These books all have been enjoyable, so I’m sure the books you picked will be great as well. I have to say that Miami failed miserably when they picked Beyond UFOs for our summer reading book. That book got me absolutely nowhere and it was a complete pain to read. I mean, the author did what he could to make all that scientific data interesting, but it just didn’t work out the way he planned. The other types of books I enjoy are love stories, but I’m a girl so it’s expected. I am not all for Nicholas Sparks’ books because so far I like the movies better, but I like the love stories that get tangled up in the plot of the story. I don’t want the whole story to be mushy-gushy; I am a romantic, but most times I end up pissed because I haven’t found that love yet (I’m young, I know. It will come).
For those who don’t like to read, they are definitely limiting themselves. I think the only reason they hate reading is because they haven’t found the right books for them and they are too lazy to try. I mean, I love books. Without books, no one would have imagination to let them run away to far away lands or travel into a different time. Books are needed to allow people to grow, teach them lessons, and give them encouragement.
This quote best describes the majority of my reading habits. When I pick up a really good book, I tend to attack it and get totally lost in its world. I am so fascinated by the exciting action and life in the book that I cannot put it down until I know everything. I love reading all different styles of writing, but one’s that have truly taken me over and lost me in their world are the mystical works, taking place in a different time or world.
Of course, the top two are probably the most popular right now anyways, but I would like to say I got caught up in them BEFORE the movies came out. The ones I started reading first were the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. As soon as I jumped into their world, I couldn’t stop. I began looking forward to book release dates and buying them the day of. It was probably an unhealthy habit, but I loved it. My other set of books is the Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer. I didn’t start reading them right when they came out, but I caught wind of them from friends and I had to start. Once I did, it was next to impossible to stop. I would seriously stop doing homework for days at a time just to finish the book. If I didn’t read it all at once, I would be thinking about what would happen next and sometimes it became an obsession (but not in a creepy way). These both are my reading for enjoyment books, which normally takes place during the summer or breaks because, like I said before, I tend to stop doing homework when I start a good book.
Other books fascinate me as well, not only because I am stunned that my teachers have chosen them for us to read, but because it is always a book I wouldn’t have picked for myself. Of course, I end up loving it. One of my favorites and a classic is To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. This is set in such a different time, so I should have known I would have loved it; any book written of a different time or place I will love. Some other books I have enjoyed in high school are Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Gulliver’s Travels by Lemuel Gulliver, and Rebecca by Alfred Hitchcock. These books all have been enjoyable, so I’m sure the books you picked will be great as well. I have to say that Miami failed miserably when they picked Beyond UFOs for our summer reading book. That book got me absolutely nowhere and it was a complete pain to read. I mean, the author did what he could to make all that scientific data interesting, but it just didn’t work out the way he planned. The other types of books I enjoy are love stories, but I’m a girl so it’s expected. I am not all for Nicholas Sparks’ books because so far I like the movies better, but I like the love stories that get tangled up in the plot of the story. I don’t want the whole story to be mushy-gushy; I am a romantic, but most times I end up pissed because I haven’t found that love yet (I’m young, I know. It will come).
For those who don’t like to read, they are definitely limiting themselves. I think the only reason they hate reading is because they haven’t found the right books for them and they are too lazy to try. I mean, I love books. Without books, no one would have imagination to let them run away to far away lands or travel into a different time. Books are needed to allow people to grow, teach them lessons, and give them encouragement.
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