Friday, January 21, 2011
The start of your outside reading book
As i started reading The Alchemist, there were parts that started to interest me and gave me thoughts of foreshadowing, the main characters view in life, and religion that consisted of finding ones own path. The beginning of this book leads me to the hope that it will be similar to Siddhartha as i liked that book i actually read Siddhartha rather than skimming a few chapters. The Alchemist has shown a few details of what the main character will face in up coming events, Which maybe a journey to Egypt for the main character in the search of hidden treasure. So try to look for any foreshadowing, and try to see the different views that the main character of your book sees.
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I think that's awesome that you're finding books that really interest you, Vince. I'm still waiting for my book to come in the mail, but from what I know about it, I'm really excited to start reading it. Like your book, I'm expecting Atonement to have religious ideas throughout it.
ReplyDeleteIt seems like a lot of books are like Siddhartha, in that they are focused on the main character's goal of realizing who they are. Maybe this is because the authors, like all people, had to go through that experience of self-realization and want to share it with the world through their books.
I began reading The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde last week. I've always love the story since i watched "The Leauge of Extrordinary Gentlemen," but I had forgotten about it until I saw it on the AP book list. I ordered it from Amazon but I got anxious and had to watch a Dorian Gray movie (there are several... it was a good movie)
ReplyDeleteWhen the book came I didnt imediatly read it, but I have reached chapter three since then. Compared to the movie the character Dorian Gray in the book are almost exactly alike. Cautious, graceful, and elegant. It isnt till a few chapters till he begins his dark decent, but I'm not there yet :)
When I compare Siddhartha to Dorian they seem alike only in their clam mannerisms, and humility (which is only apparent in the first few chapters of Dorian Gray) However I can compare Dorian to Frankenstein a bit easier. They both come from wealthy families giving them whatever pleasure they seek without complications. For Frankenstein, it was learning and creating the impossible, for Dorian it will be pleasure. They are one in the same in a sense, Dorian will learn so much from evil and dark temptaitions, and Frankenstein paid the price for his egotistic actions (Dorian faces this in the very end).
If in any even you can compare two characters from any two books.
I, too, am reading The Alchemist. And all I can say it is better than what I anticipated. As I read the book, I get the same feeling that Vince got. That is most likely on purpose by the author setting the book in first person limited.
ReplyDeleteThe main character, Santiago, is an interesting kid. He strives to move to his goal of traveling and ends up meeting an Elderly man that tells him an anecdote about the meaning of life.
Then the rest goes onto what Vince said about the character traveling to Egypt to find a treasure that he heard about in his dream.