Native Speaker Post 1
March 16, 2009 kclovinlife
In beginning this book I have been trying to look at more than the surface stuff. While reading back over my blog posts and beginning the exploratory draft I realized that I read to get the main points and sometimes to just get through the novel. So here we go again hopefully moving away from the old way….
We have Henry who is the main character and the narrator. He is married but I am not sure if they are still together or not. Lelia hands him a list of who he was before getting on a plane to go away on an excursion. Henry is a spy of some sort and I am a little confused about this. I know that there is not enough information given out yet for the reader to really figure it all out. The questions that I have now are: What happened to their son? Is it Henry’s job that has gotten in the way of their marriage? To many characters when novel gets into people at his job or involved with his job. The list that Leila gives him? I mean what is it all about?
She has obviously been constructing this list for a while because Henry finds a random piece of it under the bed. Amoung the things on the list she writes traitor and spy at the end. This is pretty harsh and has me thinking about Henry and if he is a traitor and spy. I feel like it is to early in the novel to really have to much to say about it. there was one quote at the end of the reading that stuck out to me:
“This is how we were meant for each other. How we make our living. The lives of frustrated poets and impostors. This, too, how the love works and then doesn’t: a mutual spectacle of the imagination.” (45)
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1. eth76&hellip | March 22, 2009 at 8:03 pm
I liked the quote you pulled from the book. I completely missed it as I was more focused on what Henry job is, not how he views his job.From this quote, it sounds as if Henry has a romantic view of his job.