Wow! I Just finished reading the introduction to the book, and I have a lot of questions already. As to the title of book, it indicates that there is going to be a great deal of suffering regarding the characters. Falling on your knees is generally used to represent giving up, or admitting defeat. It can also mean admitting inferiority to another character. I feel like, in this novel, there will be a lot of character versus character conflict, with one chracter holding the power, and the other character (most likely the protagonist) suffering because of it. Obviously, this book is not going to be a very happy story.
The introduction, only four pages long, gives a lot of information about the story, but also leaves the reader wondering what the story is about. One of my main questions is regarding the narrative format. The story is told as if the narrator is telling a specific person, like a friend the story of the life of someone else. It is written as if they are talking, and some of the sentences are not complete ideas, as if their mind is wandering as they speak. Who this someone is, we do not know yet. They introduce several chracters, through pictures. The introduction almost has a haunting aura to it. My favourite quote from this introduction is "Imagine you can hear the creek trickling. Like a girl telling a secret in a language so much like out own" (MacDonald 3).
I have a lot of questions about many things in this chapter.
-Who is the narrator? Why is he/she telling this story? Who are they telling it to?
-What is "our language?"
-Who are the people the narrator is talking about?
-Why are all of Kathleen's photos burned?
-Is there a reason that there are so many deaths in this family?
Overall, i am already happy that i have chosen this book. I can't wait to read on and discover to what purpose all this introductory information is given to the reader.
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Thursday, September 23, 2010
First Blog!
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I have decided to choose the book Fall on Your Knees by the esteemed Canadian author ann-Marie MacDonald. Though i have not obtained the book itself yet, i have done a bit of research on it, and it seems both fast-paced, and somewhat peculiar. The book initially caught my eye in class because of its imperative and unique title, and the fact that it was introduced as a book with potentially disturbing content. Its not that I would ever read a book just to read about human suffering or anything of the sort, i just usually find that its guaranteed that a book will be captivating and suspenseful, if it happens to be very graphic in nature. From what i can gather from various online sources, the story focuses around the story of James Piper, a young man who marries a thirteen year old girl in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, in the early twentieth century. This is a plot that I've, fortunately never come across before. Many critics award it a great deal of praise, and family members have encouraged me to continue my quest to read this book for my ISU. My hopes are that it will be as groundbreaking and thought-provoking as it is painted to be. I really hope i enjoy this book, and as i write about it at length, i actually am starting to become excited to read it.
I have decided to choose the book Fall on Your Knees by the esteemed Canadian author ann-Marie MacDonald. Though i have not obtained the book itself yet, i have done a bit of research on it, and it seems both fast-paced, and somewhat peculiar. The book initially caught my eye in class because of its imperative and unique title, and the fact that it was introduced as a book with potentially disturbing content. Its not that I would ever read a book just to read about human suffering or anything of the sort, i just usually find that its guaranteed that a book will be captivating and suspenseful, if it happens to be very graphic in nature. From what i can gather from various online sources, the story focuses around the story of James Piper, a young man who marries a thirteen year old girl in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, in the early twentieth century. This is a plot that I've, fortunately never come across before. Many critics award it a great deal of praise, and family members have encouraged me to continue my quest to read this book for my ISU. My hopes are that it will be as groundbreaking and thought-provoking as it is painted to be. I really hope i enjoy this book, and as i write about it at length, i actually am starting to become excited to read it.
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