Hye everyone!!!😆
How are you? Feeling good?
It's been a long time since I'm not posting or writing any blog. Actually this is my last entry for this semester before I'm sitting the semester exam. I know that this is a very sad news but I need time to prepare for my examination. Therefore, I hope all of you can be in my shoe.
I will be answering some questions that related to The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake today. So... Let's get started.
1. What does the last image about the trees have to do with Rose and her family?
Everyone has their opinion toward the image of trees in this novel including me. For me, the tree is a symbol of survival.
"..., and one of the trees in that are survived,..."
Even though this sentence is only a personification but it brings a meaningful thought to me. Rose is a tree🌳 in this novel. She is surrounded by balance sun🌞 and shade😎 which is a good environment, happy family (maybe) and love from everyone. However, everything start to change when the tree is overtaken by the animal? What is the animal in this context? The animal is Rose's ability. The ability conquered her life and also her mind. Her ability also brought her to the truth and reality. When she is young, she got to know that her mom is having affair with someone that she don't even know. She started to become stress when she can't forget the taste of guilty, romance and lonely. Rose even tried to remove her mouth from her body. But, when time passed, Rose become more mature than before. She starts to appreciate her ability and uses it in a proper way such as tasting the goodness and badness of the foods around her. Finally, she becomes the tree that is survived in the environment and reaching out sideways with tangled branched. Rose success in her life because of her strength in facing every problem and challenge in her life.
2. How do you interpret the last line of the novel?
"Was it so different than the choice of a card-table chair, except my choice meant I could stay in this world and his didn't?"
In my opinion, this line show how Rose try to understand Joe's choice. Rose even try to compare the benefit that she get from her ability to Joe's.
Her ability helps her to enjoy her life and experiences lots of different feelings of foods🍲😋🥘. However, Joe is tormented by his own ability and ends up on a hospital bed🏥 because of over dehydration.
3. What did you like (and dislike) most about the Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake? and would you recommend it to someone?
I love this novel because the author used a right way to portray the sadness of a girl while facing different type of problems and challenges in her life. Even though the novel was hard at first to understand and I must read it again and again but it managed to attract my attention to read more and become more curious about the plots. Besides, the author also displayed a lot of social criticism that are experienced by people nowadays such as betraying and disloyal. So, I wouldn't recommend this to my friends because it was too complicated and hard to understand😥.
That's all from me for this semester. See you again on next semester. Wish me luck ya!!😍
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