An unexpected but understandable hero

Oh my god! I have just finished my reading of chapter 48, but you know what happened? I found the hero of the book; I found the other main character of the book! It’s hard to say that I even haven’t mentioned it until my reading task tonight! It was so exciting, and I cannot believe that. That’s Mr. Knightley! Well, he had a complex relationship with Emma that he’s the elder brother of Emma’s elder sister’s husband. I didn’t know how to describe the love story between the new couples. They weren’t growing up together technically, but indeed Mr. Knightly watched Emma’s growth.

The love story reminded me an old poem in ancient China, “When you were born, I was not yet. When I was born, you were already old. I wished to have been born together. We could enjoy our time together”. It’s like a rhyme that nobody knew where it came, but it might be a form of Emma and Mr. Knightley’s love story. I found that they were so lucky to find each other even though there was a distance for more than 10 years. I was so glad that they finally got together after everything had happened, and after a lots of envious or doubt.

When I first noticed that Mr. Knightley was the hero of the book, I was shocked, but then I found that was reasonable. It was a long term for Emma to noticed that her true love was Mr. Knightley, so it’s a long term for the readers to find out that the hero they anxious longing for was him as well. I have thought that Mr. Frank Churchill was the one, because Emma loved him for a period of time. However, she started matching him and Harriet as soon as possible. Then, I started my nervous waiting, and I even doubted if Jane Austen truly wrote lover for Emma in the book. Fortunately, my mind was released now, and I can brightly swim in the ocean of imagination of the love story between the emerging couples.

It took a long time for Emma to realize her mind. As I have said before, she thought she loved Frank Churchill, but she changed her mind soon. Harriet accidently been saved by Frank and Emma thought she would love Frank. Then meanwhile, Mr. Knightley saved her from Mr. Elton’s sneering by inviting her for a dance. Then, Frank Churchill engaged with another girl, and Emma finally realized the person Harriet admired was Mr. Knightley. She was so regretful that she encouraged Harriet and she realized that the only person that sat in her mind was he. In chapter 48, I finally saw they show their mind to each other, and engaged. Did you struggle with this issue? It even took me so many words to explain what had happened.

I have talked about Mr. Knightley since my first blog, and I identified who he was until the last few chapters of the whole book. That was crazy, but I love it! Do you love it? I have to say that my challenge is going to end soon. Hopefully, I would have a great ending of my challenge. 

P.S. I would watch the movie Emma tomorrow since it won't be a spoiler of the plot.

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My challenge would be done soon!

I have done so many works tonight, and I even wanted to appreciate myself. A lab report, my Spanish big test review, my English quiz review, and this blog have been waiting for me for a long day. How can I not appreciate myself? The hard works were mostly done, except this blog.

After my golf practice, I returned my room with my exhausted body, which worked hard for a whole day already. Then, I went to take a bath for waking my mind up. I didn’t know why the works were usually accumulated together. Then, using more than an hour to finish the terrible lab report and one more hour to review the whole “lesson 4” for Spanish, the works’ finishing comforted me a lot. However, there was still the “evil”, “endless” and “boring” reading challenge and the blog post stayed, and waited for my visiting. Actually I have thought about leaving the blog post for tomorrow, because it would due on tomorrow. But how can I know if there would be even more works for tomorrow? In China, there was an old saying that, “Never pull off till tomorrow what may be done today.” Thus, my dear 30-day challenge, I’m coming.

I had decided to watch the movie, Emma, for today, but I’ve already said that I seemed to be too busy tonight, and it wasn’t that easy to find the film. Then, I chose to talk a little bit about Mrs. Elton. Even thought many people in the book had described her as beautiful, clever and elegant, she reminded me Miss. Bingley. People who have read Pride and Prejudice must know her; she’s the sister of Jane’s husband. She was a minor character, who also loved Mr. Darcy, but the halo effect of our main character Elizabeth must kill her dream. Mrs. Elton was similar to Miss. Bingley, who was the second choice of Mr. Elton that Emma would never loved him, so he could only chose Mrs. Elton as the wife.

Was Mrs. Elton’s life a joke? Not really. She was rich, kind of pretty and had a good husband in her life. However, none of her skills were better than our main character. It wasn’t a big deal if people didn’t compare them, but Mrs. Elton just remained she in a little box, and only talked about her friend’s life or how she thought her life was. It was a tragedy that an arrogant woman has been written by an author as a minor character. Please don’t think that I was acerbity, I wasn’t aggressive. I just found it’s ridiculous for her to only stayed in her own world and imagined that she’s much better than the others. Well, although nothing might happen to this character, I didn’t think she would have a good life in the following story. Mr. Elton married her only because of her dowry, so when time passed, how can they continue their marriage successfully? I hoped life wouldn’t be so cruel on her.

The reading process was continuing! I’m going to read the ending of the book soon. I wish there would be a attractive ending to prove that I didn’t waste my time on it!

Comparing and contrasting during reading

I wasn’t so busy yesterday and today, so I used some time to review Pride and Prejudice, the other book of Jane Austen. Also, I finished four more chapters of Emma that I read up to chapter 37. Then, the third part of the book started. I found the books are similar but also different.

So, I would introduce Pride and prejudice firstly. It told a story about a family that had five daughters and no sons. In Britain for that time period, their family didn’t have an heir according to the law, so they would have no money after the father died. Elizabeth, the second daughter of the family, was a clever, beautiful and stubborn main character of the book. Her intelligence and her bright personality made her found her love Mr. Darcy. Even though it wasn’t so easy to make to people who excluded each other fell in love, the author Jane Austen did a good job. Because of the book, she became the best writer in my own perspective. Thus, I cannot stop myself to compare Pride and Prejudice, one of my favorite book, and Emma, the topic of my 30-day challenge.

Let’s talk about the similar parts now. By writing with the same writer, both of the books are having the same writing techniques. Also, for the setting of the characters, Mr. Woodhouse and Mrs. Bennett were having the same purpose. Well, please come down if anybody like one the two characters. That’s just my own opinion. Even though Mrs. Bennett always wanted to marry off her daughters, which Mr. Woodhouse never wanted to, their thinking is the same. They both proud of their house and always want to show off it to the others; they both always had headache; they were both stubborn on disputing their side; also, they had the same role in both of the books. That’s only a part of the similarities, I won’t tell more unless you go to read the book and find them out by yourself.

About the differences, that’s a plenty. For example, Elizabeth wasn’t in a rich enough family, but Emma does. Emma was in a glorious family that their wealth was even more than Darcy’s family. Elizabeth must marry some one to ensure her life after Mr. Bennett’s death, but Emma didn’t have to. Although both off them didn’t do anything excellent, Emma had a better education from the noble family that she had. It’s made her as proud as a peacock. She was usually kind, but we could know how she looked down to some peasants. For example, she totally disagree the marriage between Harriet and Martin.

Nevertheless, those differences weren’t big deals. The biggest difference between the two books is, I still don’t know who the male main character was! I noticed Mr. Darcy’s setting in love story since he appeared in the book, but I still didn’t know who was the remaining half of Emma after two third of the book. Was that a Romance or a Mystery? I wish I would know the following plots soon. I need to keep working!

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Let's have fun with the challenge!

The next half of my challenge started. I had said that I wanted to change some plans of my challenge, and I did started the changings. It's a long weekend this week and I had great relax. I wanted to wake up early to finish my blog post this morning, then I woke up and accidentally fell asleep again. There was a prom this weekend, but I didn't want to go for this year's prom and plan to go for next year. Many people left the school over weekend to the prom or to their home, so my weekend wasn't exciting but relaxing and fun.

I've thought about how to do my challenge in some different ways. My teacher suggested me that I can read book on the tree, but it seemed too funny. I've thought about reading when I was eating, but I knew that it's a bad habit for my healthy. I've thought about reading when I walking, but I truly didn't want others think that I had some mental problem. Also, I didn't want to have car accident when I was reading. So lastly, I tried to fill my past time with reading.

During the weekend, I went out with my friend to have lunch. Then after ordering, I turned on my E-book to read. And my friend asked me what did I do. I explained that I did a 30-day challenge about reading a book and I felt extremely bored to read the plots that weren’t changing a lot. So I find some new ways to read. I read when I waited things; I read before I went to sleep; and I even read when I waited for the passing of YouTube advertisement before the video. Even though the plot wasn't that connected in that way, but it made me felt better to read.

There were 3 days in the weekend, so I had finished 6 chapters, from chapter 28 to chapter 33. Mrs. Elton finally came to the plots of the book in about chapter 32 and the plots eventually went through faster. However, the more important event was Emma, the main character seemed fell in love with Mr. Weston's son, Frank Churchill. In Emma's own perspective, she firstly thought that she crushed on him and couldn't stop to think about him. However, I realize that in Austen's other book, Pride and Prejudice, the main character Elizabeth also thought she fell in love with Mr. Wickham and lastly loved Mr. Darcy. Maybe in Emma, the same kind of plot would also happen soon.

It's a lot more fun when I changed my schedule. It wasn't that boring to read the book now. The reason wasn't just the plots became more interesting, also the changing of my attitude. Reading filled my free time, and I still have space to have fun. Then, I understand that the reading never got too boring, it was just what you face the reading. Thus, the better way to finish my challenge was to have fun.

goal for challenge

It's already half way through, and my challenge worked all right. But, it's a little bit boring. I truly regret on what I chose for the topic. I found extremely hard to write everyday blog posts. I finally decided to change some things I'm gonna to write in the following days of challenge. As what I thought about, I'm gonna to read the book faster, so I can quickly finish it, and not feeling that boring about the plot. Then, I could compare the movie of "Emma" and the book, and also compare my topic with Jane Austen's other books. I shouldn't only focus on the plot of the book or things happened in my life, I also need to work on something fun.

Thus, for the next half of the challenge, I would go to watch the movie and maybe find more other informations about the book.

I looked forward the exciting events for too long.
I'm excited by the up coming events.
The movie inspired me to be a good student.
The movie is inspiring.