Lit Circle Part 2 post12-13-07

This is my second lit circle response to the book Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. For out 3rd liturature circle meeting, my group had to read to page 200. It was a pretty graffic section about making love. This section explains one of the main themes that my group came up with is Love. One quote that we thought really relates to the them is,

Spitritual love from the waist up and physical love from the waist down.

(Marquez, 199)This quote is important to the story because it shows the reader what love in that time really is. It also clears up why Florintino Ariza constantly is craving to make love with every women he sees.

I have been surprisingly enjoying this book. If I wasn't doing liturature circles though, I don't think I would enjoy this book so much. The book is a bit disturbing and there are times when you just want to put it down but the lit circles make the book interesting. We talk and laugh about it so that we can make it more of a joke because we are disturbed by the content. It has been getting better but then again because it is so disturbing, i think that we just want to get it over with and finish the book.

A big question that i have is why did we need those first 20 pages of the book about
Jeramiah de Saint Amour?
I think that it was not important to have Jeramiah de Saint Amour because it just confusses the reader to believe he is a main character but he never comes back after Fermina puts the letter in her drawer. It might be there to introduce the characters but it doesn't really work that well.

Love in the Time of Cholera Reponse 12-9-07

Love in the Time of Cholera (LITTOC) by:Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a very interesting book. In Spencers class, we have been split up into liturature circles to read different books. I am with 4 other kids reading LITTOC and for our second liturature circle meeting on friday, we had to read to page 120. The book started with Fermina Daza and Dr. Urbino at an old age all the way up to when he dies. This is the begining of a interesting story. As i am reading i have been predicting on what is going to come next and sometime i am right like my group thought after the first meeting that Femina will have an arranged marriage to someone beside Florentino Ariza (her young lover that she ends at the end of the second long chapter). I have had some confusing parts like in the very beginning of the book the author makes a big deal about a character that commits suicide and we don't here anything about him ever again. i dont think that that part was necessary to the book and it was about 20 pages. When i was reading about Florentino and all the letters he wrote Fermina Daza was so sweet that i could just picture how he looked when they discribed him and i got really attached to his charater which seems very sweet! In our liturature circle on friday, we kind of drifted away from the book but not really because we were talking about long distant relationships (Florentino and Fermina's relationship was long distant)and how they are very difficult to keep alive so they dont usually work. I didn't expect Fermina to end the relationship becuase write before it said how much she loved him until she saw him again btu it was not like she never had seen him. i thought it would be because her father made an arranged marriage like he was talking about. i think that the liturature circles have helped me understand the book a lot more and i am enjoying it more than if i was stuck struggling to understand it myself.i can't wait to find out what happens next!