“And I didn’t know if I was sleeping or awake but I saw the doves. I saw them like before. Everything was the same: the dovecote painted dark blue, the nests full of straw, the roof with the wires getting rusty because I couldn’t hang the clothes up, the trapdoor, the procession of doves marching […]
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Throughout Rodoreda’s book, “The Time of the Doves”, I had great sympathy for Natalia and the constant challenges and adversities she experienced. She never seemed to catch a break, from a difficult relationship with her parents, to a manipulative husband, to having her house filled with doves, to going through a war, to having her […]
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I really enjoyed this weeks reading. It was different from our previous readings, and although I enjoyed those as well, Bombal’s work was like a breath of fresh air. To me, it was much simpler to understand, there was more of a natural flow, and the concepts were some of the biggest things life revolves […]
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