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Summary: dream or true?
Review: I`m Javier Araneda I found the book very good. Specially the love story, which is very well structurated, so you will not be able to find out how it ends, until you have finished the whole story. A woman who loves a man in such an unconditional way, to abandone all she had loved before. This love was for her the only important reason to exist. She was blind. She wasn`t there for anyone but for her dreams of love. We all know that there exist no unfinished dream, so she also had to awake. But she could not tolerate the reality. That`s why, I think, the book is called "THE AWAKENING".
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Summary: Women rights
Review: The Awakening:If you think that women should do everything what their husband tell them to do, you probably won`t like "The Awakening". Anyway, I would encourage you to read this book, because you will find much more than a simple love story and I`m sure you will change your way of thinking about this kind of subject. I personally liked the book because of the way I got envolved with the story. I found a new point of view for everything in close relation with women emancipation. I wonder what would have happened if "The Awakening" had never dissapeared from the bookshops as it did for more than fifty years. I think that many things would be totally different, beginning in our society. I would really like you to read the book, to help me find out how it affected our society. Verena Salomon
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Summary: My point of view...
Review: I just finished reading "The Awakening". I'm surprised with the end of the book, I never thought she would.... But in general, I loved the way Kate Chopin described the main characters, the way Edna with her new ideas changed along the book, and of course Robert, who fought against this impossible love he wasn't able to show. I really like the confusion Edna had. She had always loved Robert and she first realised it when he went to Mexico. This is a typical situation, when you loose something or someone, you start wanting it more. Another thing that is important to mention, is the fact that "The awakening" was writing in 1899. When it was published, people said it was immoral. It was censured, because of its hard criticism to the Creoles. But today you can learn from this book, you can see how strong love is. Edna was one of the most beautiful and charming ladies of her circle, she had an amazing family and a husband that apparently cared about her. That was what people saw, but she wasn't happy. She had never really kissed a man until she met Arobin. When she kissed Robert, she felt in love for the first time in her life. I've always like love stories, but this one is much more than that. The book shows us the reality of those times, how important the social opinion was and how different relationships can be, when they are seen from people that aren't envolved in the situation.
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Summary: few coments
Review: THE AWAKENING Kate Chopin's love story "The Awakening" is one of the most gorgeous love stories I've ever read, it is a very excitinig and interesting book. This book was forbidden for 50 years, because of its raw content, but I think it was a crime to forbid this excellent book. I found it very interesting because it isn't like the other love stories, since it doesn't have a happy ending like most of them. I think Kate's intention was to show the society the way it is and don't hide the truth. In the book, Edna, the main character, was a married woman with a normal life. She fell in love with a stranger and everything changed. She started to live her life and feel emotions that she had never felt before. On the other side there is Robert, the man, that Edna loves. He was different, because he didn't want to make Edna suffer. Finally I want to say that all the people who like to read love stories have to read " The Awakening" Andrés Steinacker
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Summary: The Awakening, a radical story
Review: This classic of the english literature, written by Kate Chopin, is a revolutionary novel for the time she had to live. It was bad seen and was forbiden for more than 50 years. The idea that a woman, a married woman, would laeve her husband and her children, to live with another man,wasnt allowed in her society. Im not saying that nowdays such a thing is allowed, but in those earlies days, this thing wasnt even thought, thats why this book can not have a happy end for Edna, because in no way her dream would have been come true. Personally Y think Robert loved Edna vey much, but he knew, he never could have been with the woman he loved. Her friend Madmoisselle Reisz, told her she needed to be strong to face her feelings and let Robert by side, because he finally would destroy her life. At the end that was what finally happened, Ednas complete life turned around Robert until that point, in the absence of her husband, she left home with the only purpuse of beeing alone until Roberts return. Y think that she was so in love, that she was forced to sink in the sea. Personally I found it an excellent book and it could bea very good advice for further generations.
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Summary: Is it worth fighting the society?
Review: After reading the whole novel it is obvious that social environment influences people too much. Edna's life was always limited by social rules, until she felt in love with Robert, being married to someone else. She began thinking of herself, developing her interests, building her own life. Edna lived an "awakening" and realized that there are feelings stronger than thoughts. Being decided to live her passion with Robert, no matter what the society said, she suffered the consequences of Robert's cowardness. Although I can not quantify how much he loved her, it surely was not enough to confront the situation and to act with indifference against the others; indeed, he could not handle it and slacked off. Losing him, her main reason of happiness, she had no further ways to keep her strenght than ending up the way she did... It is true, while she was approaching the end she remembered her children, maybe the only thing worth. But still, she kept on walking due to, as she once said, she would never sacrifice herself, not even for her family.
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Summary: recomendation
Review: I'M FELIPE ARIAS At the beginning of this book I thought it was gonna be just another boring book I had to read for school, but during the time I realized it wasn't boring. The thing is, that if I had to read it for my self, I would enjoy it more, because it is a real good book and the characters are so real that you can almost identified yourself whit some of them. So if somebody is looking for a good book I recommend him or her this one.
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Summary: A few thoughts from a highschool senior...
Review: In this beautiful but sad story, the author succeeds in portraying in a tragically enchanting way the story of a child, thrust upon marriage not by love, but as an adventure. In time she awakens to the truth, she discovers new things, and new people that make her feel things she had never before felt. In a sense, it criticizes a society that does not allow for women to grow and mature, but treats them as goods. The style has a very agreeable rhythm, with very clear influences from naturalism. The environment is a beautifully rendered 19th century Louisiana and it certainly enhances the story,giving it a nice fancy atmosphere. I personally recommend this book to anyone if you're into romance novels, but I encourage all young women to read it since it will probably make you think twice before jumping into marriage, which in my humble opinion, is something that requires to be thought of much more than twice...
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Summary: The American Woman's Voiced is Awakened!!!
Review: I never really liked early American Literature until I read this book. Finally, the American woman's voice is represented in literature and a new American woman character emerges; her true feelings, thoughts, desires and fears are reveiled. Read it and you will discover that Chopin had guts to write this in a male dominated society in the late 1800's. Then, reflect if society really has given women the freedom and mobility they need.
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Summary: Surprising Ending!
Review: I picked up this book knowing only that it was a good feminist book and banned in Chopin's life. So I was surprised at the suicide ending. I found that very amazing to the complex of this character. The only two disappointments were that Robert and Edna never really got up together sexually and that Edna didn't think more of her children. She thinks about them for five seconds and then didmisses them out of her mind. I wouldn't call her the first femnist more like another selfish sexually deprived snobby rich girl. But the story was well constructed. I think critics weighed it differently than it actually apears on the written pages.
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