I need to go on!!

What do you usually concentrate on when you are reading a book? I usually concentrate on the plots of the book. But as a 30-day challenge, I focus more on the sentence using and other language stuffs. Actually, it’s because that the plot also went slow… It’s already half way through, with fourteen days passed already. Besides the failure on match Mr. Elton and Harriet, I didn’t really see any important turning points of the book. If I became older, I might say that kind of life should be cool, but for now, I have got bored with their everyday meeting, conversation, the balls and the parties. Their lives were all the same everyday. I still had a young heart, so when could you give me some exciting love stories or exciting movements my dear writer?

Well, this might because of my drawling reading process. How much do you always read? I was a fast reader that I just used a day to read another book called Pride and Prejudice that Jane Austen, the writer, wrote. Definitely, I read it when I was young, and it was translated to Chinese. Thus, the reading progress now might help me with some details, but wouldn’t comfort my curiosity. As what I already said in the previous blog posts, I just wanted to challenge myself to read a simple story, but in a hard version. How could read a book that a person wrote in hundreds of years before seemed easy? Oh my god, I deserved it. Wish I could successfully finish the book… as soon as possible.

Whatever I thought about the book so far, I need to be serious to it. For the last blog post, I had said that I would evaluate Mrs. Elton’s personality when she appeared in the book. However, she still hadn’t appeared yet. Even my curiosity drove me to read chapter 28 and 29 briefly, I cannot find her “charming” figure. Oh my dear writer, can you please wrote it faster? I had been waiting for so long.

Otherwise, another character accidently came out smoothly. Even though the writer claimed that he had lots of reasons that force him to delay his schedule, he finally came to Highbury. He’s Frank, Mr. Weston’s son and Mrs. Weston’s stepson. They seemed having a good life that Frank usually lived in his uncle’s house. He’s been thinking as the inheritor of his rich uncle’s whole family. In the book, he has been described as “a very good looking young man; height, air, address, all were unexceptionable, and his countenance had a great deal of the spirit and liveliness of his father's; he looked quick and sensible”. In fact, the only thing interested me about the book was the information about this young man. Others appreciated him; Mr. Knightley didn’t really like him; Mrs. Weston could stay a good relationship with him as a stepmother; and Emma found his charming. What else can I interest in when I have chosen a romantic book as the challenge?

Can’t imagine that I still finish my task even I found it’s kind of boring. 16 more days and 28 chapters to go!

Citation

Austen, Jane. Emma. New York: Knopf, 1991. Print.