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!