Wednesday, September 29, 2010

A unique story.

This Blessed House was a very unique story, in my opinion. All the way from the character's names to the ending of the story, it kept me intrigued. This was another one of those stories that make me feel like I'm missing something though. That maybe there is this hidden meaning (there has to be) and I'm just not catching on. Maybe if I read it two or three more times the meaning will hit me.

Anyway, I liked how Sanjeev was kind of the narrator, I guess you would call it, in this story. You could hear his thoughts and know what he was thinking. His reasons for marrying Twinkle were stupid, but it makes you wonder how many people actually do that. Marry just because. He couldn't have known very much about her, with just dating her four months before marrying her. That is very interesting. What was even more interesting was how he continued to say things about them spending the rest of their lives together, and comments like that. It didn't once mention about divorce or ending it or anything like that.

Another thing that was weird, I thought, was towards the end when he was contemplating locking them up in the attic and doing whatever he wanted to. Then he mentioned how he had a return of feelings from before when he didn't know all of her flaws. Yet he still said something negative about their relationship afteward. I couldn't really make sense of all of that.

How does all the Christian parafanalia fit into everything? What was the significance of him hating it because she loved it? I have my theories, but I automatically assume my theories are wrong. It's times like these that I wish I could be in the author's head and thoughts. So I could just know exactly what he was thinking instead of having to assume or guess and possibly be wrong. I could interprate a totally different meaning then the actual meaning. I don't like that.

1 comment:

  1. I agree with you that all of his reasons for marrying Twinkle were silly. They definitely got married much too quickly. They had such different opinions on the Christian paraphernalia. I would think on of the first things they would have discussed were their religious beliefs.

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