This is week 9 on feelingsonbooks.com, and this week I read the third and final part of Toni Morrison’s book, Beloved. I have to say that this book has had me confused from the very beginning as to what was happening and where the main characters were going to end up. The fractured language dialogue used in this story had me scratching my head for understanding most of the time. Now that I have been trying to work through the puzzles and pieces that Morrison so carefully fit together, the mysterious appearance of the woman Beloved and her whole existence which had such an impact on the lives of every person who lived at 124 became nothing but a faded bad memory. Sethe had been avoiding dealing with her feelings and memories of the guilt she had of taking the life of her baby girl when she was but a girl herself. I feel that her mental struggles since the incident greatly contributed to her need to give this woman everything she desired and more, leaving Denver and herself with nothing. 

    This week on feelingsonbooks.com I read part 2 of Toni Morrison’s, Beloved. The language and writing style used by Morrison is a true example of the period of time the story is written. The choppy, fragmented speak of uneducated former slaves and others of color, made it difficult for me to follow what is going on.  

    This is week 7 on feelingsonbooks.com, and I started reading the book Beloved by Toni Morrison.  Being as this blog is my safe place for sharing my feelings on the readings in my college English course, I would like to share that I  allowed my first impression to be based on what I had heard about the context of the story before I even started reading this novel.  I felt that this would be a horror story based on a true story with a haunted house, and the characters being former slaves and a mother who murdered her baby who is only known as Beloved by the name on her headstone. It is true that Toni Morrison begins to develop the plot in Part One with these details, but I was surprised that it is all of these things plus so much more.  

      Week 6 on feelingsonbooks.com, Part III, and the final section of George Orwell's novel 1984 had me cringing as Winston was imprisoned for his opposition to the Party and his membership of the Brotherhood. I was curious at Winston's loss of awareness of where he was and what time it was. Whether it was day or night. Whether he had been imprisoned for a few hours, days or months. This section made me feel pity and compassion for Winston and the other prisoners he was housed within a filthy cell. It gave me a sad feeling of what it would be like to be locked up and unaware of what my future would be. The fear of seeing and hearing other people leave the cell before me and hearing them scream from fear and pain in the distance, not knowing what is being done to them and only waiting for your own turn to be taken. 

     Week five on feelingsonbooks.com, I am sharing my feelings of my readings of part two of George Orwell's novel 1984.  In this part of the book Winston is becoming more deeply involved with  individuals who are members of a government resistance group.  This made me feel anxious, nervous and suspicious for Winston as he enters this different world of deception, shadows, and lies. 

    Hello everyone! This is week #4 on feelingsaboutbooks.com and I have started reading the book 1984 by George Orwell. My first impression of the first part was the lingering feeling of paranoia. An eerie atmosphere of a society that is constantly being watched by “Big Brother.” This was reinforced by the description of tattered posters hanging everywhere reminding citizens that they are being watched and should behave the way government wants them to, or they would be punished. Telescreens installed in every public place and private home allows the Party to monitor every move people make and hear everything everyone says. They help to enforce the tyranny of the suppressors. Having books and diaries were punishable by death. To think, people could not express their own opinions or write down their own private thoughts and feelings without risking their lives. I could not even imagine not having the freedom to do anything I please. What an awful world.  

    My feelings of week three's reading of Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl continued with concern and worry for the wellbeing of the occupants of the annex as Anne and Peter explore their developing romantic feelings for each other.  With their world being as closed up as it is, would they have felt the same about one another if they had never been forced into hiding? I think Anne had different thoughts of how all the boys wanted to be her boyfriend and would ask her to do things, to which she had turned down many requests. She liked to tease the boys. So no, I don't think that Anne and Peter would have ended up together if they had not been forced to live together in the annex. Peter was seventeen and a half and Anne was almost fifteen during this part of the book. Their age difference and the fact that they would have been around other boys and girls out in public, in my opinion, would have made their relationship possibly never happen.  

     This week's reading made me long for Anne and all the captive residence of the Annex to be able to have more room to roam free. Being cooped up for months together in a small space with other people, be it family members, friends, and strangers would have to be taxing on everyone's patience and ability to fulfill the need for privacy. I am not a people person. Being in a situation like Anne and the others, would make me feel trapped and claustrophobic. Caged like a wild animal that was used to living free, made to stay in a small space without the possibility to escape back to their normal life.