I think this is my favourite book of my contract. I mean, considering there’s only one book left, I’m fairly confident in saying that this is my favourite （´∇｀”）After so many books where perhaps the sentences were a bit complicated, or where the scenes jumped around in time, it was great to read a book […]
Posted in Blogs, Ferrante | Tagged with admiration, friendship, jealousy
I’ve never been so tense yet invested while reading a book. Elena and Lila’s friendship was stressful to the point I was holding my breath in for the most of it. The starting scene where Elena says, “she wanted to vanish; she wanted every one of her cells to disappear, nothing of her ever to be found” (pg 20) and the title, “my brilliant friend” didn’t brace me for what was about […]
Posted in Blogs, Ferrante | Tagged with friendship, jealousy, My brilliant friend, RMST 202, survival
I picked this book because I saw that one of the main themes was friendship and recently I’d been thinking about friendship a lot and my own relationships with some of my friends and this was very interesting to read.I feel like ever since I was a litt…
Posted in Blogs, Ferrante | Tagged with education, friendships, jealousy, My brilliant friend
I picked this book because I saw that one of the main themes was friendship and recently I’d been thinking about friendship a lot and my own relationships with some of my friends and this was very interesting to read.I feel like ever since I was a litt…
Posted in Blogs, Ferrante | Tagged with education, friendships, jealousy, My brilliant friend
The novel for this weeek, ‘My Brilliant Friend’ left me wanting to know so much more about the stories of the two close friends, especially due to the surprising ending of the shoes and marcello. Starting off, I found the relationship between Lenu and Lila a little…unsettling. The entire dynamic of their relationship was how […]
Posted in Blogs, Ferrante | Tagged with frienship, jealousy, social class
The opening scene of “Agostino” sets the tone of the text: toxic male jealousy. As a 13-year-0ld boy, Agostino loves the attention of his mother. Whether or not this was incestious, it demonstrates how important his mother is to him, and when she gives attention to other men, Agostino gets marvelously jealous. This “jealousy” fades […]
Posted in Blogs, Moravia | Tagged with boyhood, broken family, jealousy, Mommy Issues, sexuality
I loved this book so much, and I will have to read the next ones. I can’t be left in such a cliffhanger! Of course, this book is an coming of age story, a common theme in the course. It takes us on a journey where we can see how a small neighborhood in Italy […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with childhood, COA, coming of age, Elena Ferrante, family, friends, identity, Italy, jealousy, life, love, My brilliant friend, Personal Growth, poverty, Teens
I feel like I say this every week, and I always mean it, but this is now my favourite book we have read so far. First of, I’d like to say how much I hated Quimet. He took advantage of Natalia’s naive personality and trapped her in a marriage. He was toxic, had major jealousy […]
Posted in Blogs, Rodoreda | Tagged with freedom, Hunger, jealousy, love, war
Agostino by Alberto Moravia was a very interesting read. This young boy who is completely infatuated by his mother’s presence and longs so dearly for her love becomes evident in the rest few pages of the book. Right at the beginning of the book, Agostino states how much it means to spend time with his mother. Going boating every day, laying on the beach, and being in her presence fills his pride and identity but when her presence is shared with others he becomes jealous. An interesting theme that came…read more
This novel definitely had some interesting characters, however, it made me so unbelievably angry at men. Agostino is a young boy, despite having the privilege to attend school, he doesn’t know much about life. When he meets the group of boys, he starts to discover things about a part of the world he isn’t part […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Freud, humiliation, jealousy, love, obsession, oedipus
