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Summary: it was okay
Review: I didn't like the book because it showed how week Edna was and how she her lovers first in her life.The book was ironic to me because I didn't expect Edna to drown herself, especially over a male.I recommend this book to females who are interested in knowing how some women choose to handle their love life.
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Summary: love makes you go through alot!!!
Review: I liked the book The Awakening, by Kate Chopin. It showed how some women react when they can't find love or when they're not happy in the relationships that they are in. The book had many details in it regarding Edna's life and her different relationships. The book had a very ironic ending where she ended up drowning herself, that lets people know how some people value the company and love of other people and if they don't get that then they feel as if their life is over.I recommend this book to anyone who has the time to read it. It's very interesting and will make you turn emotional.I don't advise people who are in bad relationships to read the book fearing that they might make drastic turns as Edna did.
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Summary: The Awakening
Review: Edna Potellier is a women who thinks of her self as an autonomous human being. She lives on an island called Grand Isle. She is a wife and a mom. One day an upper-class Creole family came on vacation. She ran into a young man named Robert. Slowly the two fall in love. One day they decided to swim to another island. After a while she fell asleep, when she woke up Robert was gon. She was sad and she moved to New Orleans. She tried to look for Robert, but he wasn't there. So she went to a racetrack to bet on horses. She ran into another young man named Arobin. They fell in love, so they slept together. She heard that Robert was going to return. The next day she went to go see him, but he was not there. She felt lonely. At the end she drownes her self for love.
My favorite part in the book is when she meats Arobin. I like this part because she felt lonely and her husaband or boyfriend weren't there to comfort her. Then came Arobin and she felt wonderfull. I also felt happy for her because she had someone to talk to. The reltionship got out of control and that was the bad part.But I believe that this is the best part in the book.
I found this book at my cousin's house. He told me it was a great book for me. My friends also read this book. Some said it was good while others said it was bad. So then I ...read some of the book reviews that were really helpful. This is how I got introduced to this book. I recomend this book if you are the type of person that like up and down parts to books. For example someoneone's happy and they die.That is up and down parts to books.
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Summary: The Awakening
Review: "The Awakening" was a very exciting story. Edna was a very bad mother and wife. I didn't expect Edna to become so closely attached to Robin and Arobin. Edna finds a part of herself when she is with these young men, and it's sad! She experiences much joy in these affairs, but later realizes what she has done. Her realization is so deep that Edna claims her own life. I like this story even though it takes a turn for the worst. Yes, I do recommend this story to readers that like to experience adventures and risks.
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Summary: Depressing and
Review: A good friend recommended this book to me. She found the book highly entertaining and inspirational. I found it very depressing and "uninspirational". If this book is supposed to influence women to find and assert themselves, then I think it falls far short. Edna is a selfish, spoiled young wife and mother who in my opinion became bored with her life. She was unappreciative and she was not brave enough to do something constructive about it. IF she had chosen to walk away from her home and family and pursue something that would fulfill her solitary life or help others I would have at least tried to understand her way of thinking. She did not "free" herself as so many commentaries will lead readers to believe. She simply made a dismal prison for herself. If she had at the very least dedicated herself to becoming the artist she could have and showed the world she could support herself without the aid of her husband, then I would have grudgingly admired her even though her selfish decisions affected her children and her husband. We are supposed to think that by her suicide she freed her soul to become one with the solitary sea. What rubbish....she let her emotions rule her thinking. The doctor was right. She was going through a spell of some sort. She was obviously sick in some way. I did not feel sorry for her; I felt sorry for her husband who tried to give her space to find herself. And her poor children. They did not ask to come into the world and of course they needed their mother. If this book is supposed to help women understand that their roles are just as important as men's roles and that they are not second class citizens, then it has failed miserably. I would NOT recommend this book for young women who are looking for inspiration to become all they can be. Unfortunately, all it proves is what some men would have us believe....we let our emotions rule us and that in a moment of intense weakness we are not strong enough to face the world and carry on. Edna let her love for a man, Robert, define who she was. By all means read this book if you are down on men and the wonderfully fulfilling traditional role of wife and motherhood, but don't expect to be uplifted or inspired by it. It aggravated me more than anything. I would like to add this...Chopin's writing is beautifully descriptive. She did make me see, smell, and even hear the setting of her story. Very few writers have been able to do this. I would certainly read more stories by the author although I have a feeling I will not agree with her view points. She did have a great talent.
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Summary: THE AWAKENING FOR THE SOUL
Review: THE AWAKENING WAS VERY INTERESTING. THIS BOOK INSPIRES MANY PEOPLE TO TAKE CHANCES AND DO WHAT THEY FEEL IS RIGHT. EDNA PONTELLIER AWAKENS AND BECOMES A NEW WOMAN IN THIS BOOK WHICH MEANS SHE IS THINKING FOR HERSELF AND SHE WANTS TO BE HER OWN WOMAN. SHE FEELS THAT SHE IS FREE AND HER OWN PERSON. THIS BOOK IS A GREAT STORY FOR PEOPLE TO READ IF THEY ARE STRUGGLING TO FIND THEIR OWN IDENTITY AND NEED ALITTLE ENCOURAGEMENT.
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Summary: Great Naturalistic Novel
Review: During the long hot summer, upper-class Creole families from New Orleans flee to Grand Isle to relax by the ocean. When her husband Leonce returns to the city during the week for work, Edna Pontellier becomes enamored of young Robert Lebrun. In the young gallant's company Edna develops a sense of herself as a unique human being, with wants and desires separate form her husband and children. One day Edna and Robert take a trip to another island by boat, when she falls asleep and awakens a new woman. Nervous about their growing closeness, Robert suddenly goes off to Vera Cruz on business, leaving Edna depressed.When she returns to the city Edna tries to settle into her old routine, but it proves to be too much for her. Instead she begins painting and engaging in other behaviors her husband considers eccentric. Edna is committed to doing what she wants, regardless of what society or her husband happen to think about her actions. With her husband and children both out of town, Edna enjoys her new-found freedom and meets Alcee Arobin, a charming young philanderer at the local racetrack. With the money she makes gambling and selling paintings, Edna decides to move out on her own and while she realizes it is Robert whom she loves, she has an affair with Albion. But a meeting with Robert will have fatal consequences for Edna's newfound independence. THE AWAKENING is a compelling portrait of a woman discovering her own identity and demanding to be treated as an autonomous human being, consequently rebelling against the norms of society. Kate Chopin's use of subtle prose in the Naturalist style and the constant symbolism of water and the ocean, help to reveal Edna's state of mind. This novella will remind readers of Gustave Flabuert's MADAME BOVARY, but the differences are significant and reflect more than the fact one was written by a Frenchman and the other by an American woman. THE AWAKENING is more sensual and its heroine eminently more worthy of sympathy and admiration.
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Summary: THE AWAKEING
Review: THE AWAKEING WAS ABOUT A MAN NAMED MR. PONTELLIER WHO SHARED A COTTAGE WITH A LADY NAMED MADAME LEBURN THAT OWNED A PARROT AND AMOCKING BIRD. MR. PONTELLIER WAS READING A OLD NEWSPAPER.HE WAS READING THIS BECAUSE THE SUNDAY NEWSPAPER HADDEN MADE IT TO GLENN ISLE. MR. PONTELLIER WAS ABOUT FORTY WITH GLASSES AND BROWN HAIR.
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Summary: JOSE COLON
Review: The Awakening by Kate Chopin is a very interesting book to read, with a surprising ending! This book tells me a whole lots of information of how women were in the past. Edna had different responsibilities to do, and that hold her back to become a great wife that she wanted to be. The Awakening is an easy book to read with a lot of details in it, I recommend this book to everyone, especially to do young ladies!
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Summary: I Love This Book!
Review: This book is an excellent one which describes that women back in those times were thinking and facing some very similar situations as now. I love how this story is written. The whole journey with Edna, the main character,as she discovers herself and awakens to her reality is am amazing one. You feel like you get to know her as she goes through the events she goes through, and it amazes you how it turns out at the end. Seeing her change, and how she ends up at the end of the book. I thought this story was catchy and tragic, but it all comes together to make it such an unresistable book. I also liked how Kate Chopin wrote it with alot of detail. I loved it so much, I bought a copy for myself! I would reccommend this book to everyone since I think anyone wil enjoy it.
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