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The Bell Jar
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Sylvia Plath
Sophia Aguinaga
, September 18, 2011
Sylvia's description of this girl's journey is the most moving composition I have ever read. She uses her words almost as weapons, offering you no option but to see the world through Esther's dark eyes. While Esther's idealism offers light, she cannot seem to find any actuality in her idealism and grows dark. Knowing Plath's story and end, having read collections of her journal entries, I find the story to be less fiction than is suggested. There is beauty in such a sad story. It seems that Plath had a heart so big she couldn't bear to let it live. Among her writings, this piece offers something more concrete than just her poetry or journal entries: her perception of her whole story rather than just pieces of her thoughts.
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Paint It Black
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Janet Fitch
Sophia Aguinaga
, September 01, 2011
I was blown away by the darkness of Paint It Black. Identifying with the inability to let things go, even after they are far dead and gone, is something I identified with. At first it sets in with the depression, but she even tried holding on through his mother. Their relationship's twists and turns left me with knots in my stomach, but it showed how truly perverse attempting to live in the past can become. Although the book felt lengthy at times, slightly repetitive, it was also very accurate in that same context. When trying to let go, you're spun in circles, the same thought patterns popping up again and again and attempting to find an avenue of release from any possible source, and that was depicted perfectly in this story. I appreciated the final release at the end of the tale. Beautiful story.
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