Native Speaker Last One I Swear!

Native Speaker

I am so happy that it’s over. This book was so boring and dry for me. I found it hard to read it just because the action was slow. It was painful. Even when there was action it was dry.

The Native Speaker as a title threw me. Here’s an example.

If you are from
Italy and you speak Italian you’re a Native Speaker.

 

Henry was from
New York but his first language was Korean so he is not a Native Speaker even though he did learn English later on. Whoa. I’m confused just trying to sort this out. I think I said it the right way. If not, you get the point.

 

Almost the whole book Henry and Lelia have a rocky relationship. In the end they stay together. I think Lelia was a little needy. She finally got over it and Henry let her in.

 

I think the way Mit died was really out there. I think he could have used his imagination and thought of a better way to kill off Henry’s son. Come on. Get creative.

 

Hoagland is an unfeeling twit. He deserved to be deported.

 

I was disgusted that Kwang is married with kids and yet he hired a sixteen year old stripper. That’s disgraceful. How would he like it if she was his daughter? Not to mention she was scared out of her wits when Kwang assaulted Sherrie I think it was. She didn’t run out of the room or anything. She stayed with him. That was dumb. If she used a little common sense then maybe she would be alive still.

 

This is my last remark. In the book Henry said that Kwang did not know if the people in his money circle were illegal immigrants. If that is so then how could he be smuggling people in? Did anyone else think about that?

Sula’s End!

Sula’s End.

 

            One thing that I can not stand is when a book does not excite me at all. That would sum up Sula for me. There was no action. It did not feel like there was rising and falling action or ending kind of feeling. I had no connection to this book at all. It was really predictable and that annoyed me.

            Questions about the end could be why did everyone else see a rose above Sula’s head and Shadrach saw a tadpole? I know he’s at one with the fishing realm but it’s very strange. Secondly why in every book we read does someone want to mutilate their lover. I think it was Sula who wanted to pull
Ajax skin off him to see if he was the color underneath that she expected. Crazy woman! Another question is
Plum really talking to her about Chicken Little because no one else was around her that knew. Eva did not see it so how can this be explained? I know she and Sula were one but that doesn’t mean it was Nel’s fault. I agree she should have done something though.

            Sula was out of control. I wonder on what planet that it is okay to sleep with your best friend’s man and think its okay? Sula had something seriously wrong with her. Just because you shared everything doesn’t mean men are included. It sounds horrible but I think Sula got what she deserved when
Ajax left her. She got a taste of her own medicine.

 

Sula

 Sula

 

            I actually like this book. I know, it’s about time right. I think that it’s an easy read but it is also hard to put down. There are however, a few things that I would like to discuss.

            The author is a great writer but she put too many females in the story too fast for my taste. Until we talked about it in class I was crossing characters with others unintentionally. It was really random though how she includes the chapter about the soldier who creates National Suicide Day. I mean I thought it was hilarious and some good comic relief but it was very strange.

            I love how the author just says things with a certain tone as if they mean nothing like Hannah sleeping with a groom in the morning and washing his wife’s dishes at night. Rochelle was a strange woman. Even though I think it was Nel that went on that trip the only thing that it showed was that race is a big thing below the Mason Dixon line.

            My argument is with Sula and Nel. Okay a little boy gets thrown into the water. You expect him to come up but he doesn’t. Is there a reason that they run away instead of pulling him out? He could have survived if they didn’t act so brain dead. Then the girls say nothing about it and after the funeral they’re holding hands and all is forgotten. What the hell is this, an episode of Barney and Friends? That’s not realistic. It’s just really troubling to me.