The start of my 30-day-challenge

It’s the third day of my 30-day-challenge. I chose to read a few chapters of a book for each day as the challenge. Emma, a book written by Jane Austen, is the topic of my challenge. Reading is one of my favorite activities. Jane Austen was a famous British writer and she always wrote about Romantic story. I had read Pride and Prejudice 3 years ago. Meanwhile, I’m been attracted by her story and her ornate terms even thought the English vocabularies were kind of hard to understand. I still remember the time that I read the book as read a dictionary. As a result, I chose Emma as my challenge. I already read 5 chapters of the book.

The main character was called Emma Woodhouse, who’s clever, rich and a beautiful girl. She’s kind of arrogant because of her good family background and her capacity. However, I have to say that she’s always been liked. In the first few chapters, the book told me her friends, her family and her elders. She did have a happy life with her father in their house. Even though her father’s similar as Mrs. Benet in the book, Pride and Prejudice, who was always neurasthenia, he’s still a respectable elderly. She had a sister who had married and Miss Taylor who has just married with her for many years. Also, Mr. Knightley, her brother in law’s brother, always went to visit her and her father.

Her life seemed to be fulfilled. After Miss Taylor’s marriage, her father and herself were bored by the life without their dear friends. Mr. Woodhouse found that it was a pity that Miss Taylor got married and Emma spent lots of time to comfort her father’s weak mind. Soon, she met Harriet Smith and kept focus on her. As it says in the book, she’s not clever but pretty. Harriet needed someone to guide her and Emma needed a friend to take place of Miss Taylor since she got married. The two girls became great friends. Until chapter 5, Emma tried to persuade Harriet from the pursuit of a not noble man and she would like Harriet to fall in love with a rich priest.

For know, I like the ironic language that Jane Austen talked about how Mr. Woodhouse didn’t like Miss Taylor’s marriage and cakes. I found it’s fun to read the book and I liked to see how Emma comfort her father and tried to make her father believed that he was right. The writer described detailed about the feeling and emotions in the characters’ mind when each event happened. I like the way she showed the characteristic of different people particularly.

The book Emma was a kind of different book that Jane Austen liked. The condition that Emma lived in was totally different from Elizabeth had, in Pride and Prejudice, and Elinor, Marianne had, in Sense and Sensibility. I found that even the writer said that the readers wouldn’t like a character that Emma was. However, just as other readers did, I truly looked forward to continue the reading of the book later.