2016年9月26日 星期一

Log #1

   Book name: EAT PRAY LOVE
   Author:Elizabeth GILBERT
   Reading log :p1~p44
   


   This book was found in an university library near my home. It categorized as Geography type on the book case. After I read “The New York time’s book review” at the bottom of book cover, I found a lot of interesting thing that I was curious about. Therefore, I chose the book.

   The first interesting thing is about the theme in this novel. According to the book review, the story is about a woman who decided left behind everything to travel in order to examine three different aspects of her nature after she divorce. What’s more, it seems like base on the author’s real experience. I believed many women have some confusion in their life. They may also have the same thought like the author. However few of them can make their thought come true. Honestly, I also have the same idea not long ago. Leave alone without my family or kid, and hope that all of the problems and difficulties will disappear immediately. But after I told the idea to my friend, she just said:” Don’t be silly, you can’t hide and never be found forever.” I think the main difference between the author and I is that I have a kid but the main character has’t. The main character said that she has ever wished to have a kid when she was young, but he
r sister to her: “Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it’s what you want before you commit.” That was really a very realistic admonition. She took the advice and wrote down what she experience.


   After I got whole picture of this book, I continued to read the story, the second thing I felt that interesting is the point of view. This story is completely written with a first person perspective. From p1 to p46, It a little bit like read someone’s diary. The author use the pronoun: I. As a result, it easy to read and also easy to have the similar feeling to her. At the beginning she told the feeling and reason why she want to divorce, and then she raised an important question to herself “What do you want to do?” And another question she asks herself is that “ Is this lifetime supposed to be only about duty?” That’s also two questions in my mind, so I got the hook and tried to know more about the story.


   After the questions she asks herself, she has an eager to find a spiritual teacher. The section 8 and section 9 is about pray. The process of divorce is difficult, and some conflict still can’t be resolved. As a result she started to pray. Her petition to god is trying to end all the conflicts in her marriage. At the end of section 9, her petition works, her husband sign her petition, so she brings about her pray. The process of her divorce is very truthfully. Unlike other novels that are a little bit exaggerate. It’s easy understand and easy to get an echo from me.

  I am a practical person, so I am interested this kind of novel which discuss the questions or issues in the real world. I just read the beginning part of story; I hope that the following story will be more interesting.
        

  





1 則留言:

  1. At the beginning, i am curious about the name of this book; however, i know the answer after i read your log. I feel that women are always the one that worry their family the most and have the most heavy burden on them. Like my mom, she sometimes tell me that she wants to do other things like dancing on her own instead of dealing with household all the time, but she just can't put everything down. It's a serious question to think of what you want to do for yourselves because this is our own life. As a woman, i wish i have a lovely family that i can be my own. Thank you for your sharing and i am looking forward to read more your log about this book.

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