Tuesday, January 13, 2009
chpt. 11
Welcome everyone. I am very curious to know how you honestly feel about what you have read so far in the novel. You will not lose points in any way if you are completely negative. I just want you to support what you say. I also would welcome comments about your feelings toward Chillingworth and Hester. You've read enough now to have a sense about who these two characters are. How about the actual difficulty of reading?
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I think that Chillingworth is super creepy! Its like his only purpose in this book is to seek revenge. Although he is a freaky fellow, I feel that is he is most important part i the book because he is the agitator that gets the emotions flowing. The only good end to the book would be one that included his death. I think this would conclude the story, however I think Hester may have to find some kind of closure before this....
ReplyDeletei find, as far as liking the book goes, i don't very much. it seems dickensesque in the writing, as in everything goes on, and on, though hawthorne has his own agenda, with commas and the like. but where dickens talked at length about dark things that seemed to actually matter, hawthorne manages to go on and on about not a lot in particular.
ReplyDeleteI am enjoying the story but not so much the lengthy writing style. I find much fascination from Pearl and Hester's relationship. It's interesting to me how alike, yet different they are. Pearl is most definitely a trouble maker but she never tries to hide it. Hester, other than the A across her breast doesn't appear as one but she often finds herself asking for trouble in her bold statements like the way she dresses Pearl. I found myself wondering why it was that she didn't use more discipline on Pearl. I know she tried but it seems like at a certain point she just gave up. In a way I wonder if it's because Hester is using her just as another bold statement, maybe?
ReplyDelete"Classic is something everybody wants to have read, but nobody wants to read." - Mark Twain
ReplyDeleteEhm, for me it perfectly fits with Scarlet Letter... :) I totally understand why some people find it as a great book, but let's see... I find morals as an anachronism (this is a little hyperbole for effect, but just a little), Puritan era doesn't attract me at all, with my absolute inability to create relationships in real life I am not really able to fully empathize with all these forbidden loves, relationships etc... In other words, the focus of this book completely missed me. Moreover, the book is really very unfriendly written. Now I mean just the way of writing itself - I wouldn't mind at all that it doesn't have much story in it. With some (but just with some) romanticists I just have problem (see Victor "the description has to have at least twenty pages" Hugo). On the other hand, I find interesting the way of chapters, i.e. that it is not one gradual narration, but every chapter is focused on "something." And I have survived worse things.
I’m not exactly sure how I should feel about this book. The story itself is actually really interesting but the descriptions are way too long. Sometimes after reading about half a page I find myself wondering what I just read about. Not just because of the hard language but because of the huge sentences and descriptions of something really small. I am talking about the things that are described over about a page but which you could say in maybe 4 (regular!) sentences. I don’t mind descriptions if there’s not too much of it. But in this book there’s definitely too much of it for me.. So I am glad that at least the story itself is interesting.
ReplyDeleteim gonna be totally honest. i think this book is pretty boring. theres just too much description and not enough action. i feel that you could pretty much summarize pretty much everything that has happened in the last 11 chapters in less than 11 sentences. im not saying its a bad book, its just a little slow for my taste. and there are no pictures.
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