Wednesday, November 2, 2011

A Sea of Wide Grass

Dear readers,
I am so sorry I have been gone away for so long.I know, I know, what could be worse than a blogger who stops blogging?Nothing!I am here to discuss Wide Sargasso Sea by Lady who couldn't make up her own characters and had to take them from othe- I mean  Jean Ryths.From reading, we get a sense of who Bertha is. She is poor, like Jane, but is also not very educated,just by the way the narrative sounds. Considering how many times she mentions "the black people", one can tell that she lives in a world where race is an issue.Like Jane, she is also ostracized for being poor, but also for being white which is something you don't hear everyday. Unlike Jane,she has a mother, but a mother that no one would like to have.The narrative is not at all like Jane Eyre. It doesn't feel like a memoir,but more like a girl writing in her diary.Bertha seems like a confused kid dealing with things that no one should deal with.In a way,her life was harder than Jane's life. The whole thing just depressed me,probably because I know Bertha's future. But even her present sucks! Father-less,friend-less and most importantly, Nutella-less!

I found this interesting.On page 17 she states that they have a garden in their home that was just like the garden in the Bible but soon it grew wild.Funny enough,it sounds just like how someone would describe Bertha. Oh snap guys look, I'm being deep!

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