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Saturday, August 30, 2014
Sorry everyone, good news is my class schedule is less this semester, bad news is my teachers have decided that reading three hundred page books in week is acceptable of religion majors. I promise that will be followed by a post about P&P, no more slacking. I am about to begin the adventure into my first real
practice of spiritual disciplines (which is sad) but as I master them I will become more disciplined in my life as a whole, this is the goal. To anyone else who may glimpse this who is struggling to get through copious amounts of work, good luck and remember that through Christ all things are possible, and through hard work we may accomplish even the hardest of feats.
Stay Whelmed,
Ross
P.S. I am working on a manga with a few friends that has potential to be awesome! As Americans we are very into manga and anime (if you haven't already noticed) and have decided to start on a project, as if I did not have a lot of them already. Anyway more on this as it develops.
Sunday, February 16, 2014
Sorry about waiting guys, its not that I have that many readers but for the occasional reader who wonders what takes me so dang long I feel I must explain.
Currently I am a full time student of 18 credit hours which is actually stupid. Second I am in the deepest of deeps of book writing and I have been experiencing a lack in time. I will try to be better in the future. Also because I now have a tumblr I am trying to learn code so that I can transfer it over there but not until everything looks awesome. I am so sorry that this will leave you with more excuses and no actual post but please feel assured that eventually, (spring break?) this will be finished.
Fellow writers pray for me. I am currently undergoing a horrible rewriting process of crap and its killing my inspiration drive. I have been working on this book for near to seven years and ending it becomes harder and harder as time goes on. But this one thing I will finish, even if it kills me.
Yours forever,
Ross
ps. If in fact the book kills me before this blog finishes Pride and Prejudice please feel free to email complaints, I shall have my roommate check them and write apologies on my behalf.
Currently I am a full time student of 18 credit hours which is actually stupid. Second I am in the deepest of deeps of book writing and I have been experiencing a lack in time. I will try to be better in the future. Also because I now have a tumblr I am trying to learn code so that I can transfer it over there but not until everything looks awesome. I am so sorry that this will leave you with more excuses and no actual post but please feel assured that eventually, (spring break?) this will be finished.
Yours forever,
Ross
ps. If in fact the book kills me before this blog finishes Pride and Prejudice please feel free to email complaints, I shall have my roommate check them and write apologies on my behalf.
Saturday, December 7, 2013
Hello everyone welcome back to my sporadic blog posts, glad you could spend a few moments of your time reading my opinions! Today we will cover chapters 44 and 45 and in the next post I will be hitting you with sooooooo many feels that you may actually explode, you know in a way that is quite messy and may involve grabbing the closest random stranger by the sleeve and shouting "WHY!" at them until they back away afraid for their lives. Okay that may have just been me but who knows it could happen.
So off we go with chapter 44. This chapter begins with Lizzy thinking that Darcy will be coming at a certain time and he shows up like a whole day earlier than she was expecting. Apparently his sister was so excited or curious about meeting Elizabeth, or Darcy was, that they came over right after Miss Darcy arrived at the Pemberly estate. This eagerness automatically tips Elizabeth's Aunt and Uncle off to the fact that Darcy probably likes Lizzy and by the time they have a conversation with the man they know he's in love.
Miss Darcy is probably the cutest thing in the whole book, yep even cuter than Jane. That might be because Jane is way to nice and good and she tends to get on my nerves. Any way Miss Darcy is around 14 or 15 and is described by Lizzy as having a well formed figure, graceful, and tall. She is also said to look happy but is rather shy with exceptional manners. Elizabeth pretty much automatically likes her. Darcy meanwhile is still acting like a totally different Darcy. He inquires about Lizzy's family, the family he formerly despised and avoided. He is happy and from what we get from Mr. and Mrs. G (the aunt and uncle) he is still very in love with Elizabeth. Then Bingley shows up, asks a bunch of questions that only half point in the direction of Jane. He is still full of charm and good humor that he had been full of back in Lizzy's town and it sort of looks like he has no clue that anything has happened. Pretty much he is oblivious to the fact that he was tricked into leaving Jane behind, because of that it is kind of hard to be angry with him very much and so Lizzy is friendly and tries to see how many times he asks questions that are indirectly linked to Jane.
The party stays for about 45 minutes and then they leave, but only after Darcy guides his sister into asking Lizzy's group to come over the next day for dinner. Miss Darcy does so with a bit of adorable awkwardness and they all agree to go. Because honestly who could say no to that.
Miss Austen (the author for those who may have forgotten) then decides to leave a few nibblets about character through the perspective of Mr. and Mrs. G. about Darcy and Wickham. We are told that they can find no fault in Darcy and that once again it is obvious he loves Lizzy. The have been asking around to their friends and the people of the local towns and have discovered two things. One that Darcy is an upstanding member of his community. And two that Wickham makes a lot of messes for Darcy to clean up. Wickham had apparently skipped town leaving behind pretty large debts, debts that Darcy paid off for him.
Then we get to what is one of my favorite lines in the whole book. Lizzy lies awake for two hours just thinking about Darcy. She is trying to discover if she truly loves him, and if she wants him to re-propose and while she is thinking of all this and going through the reasons why she likes him better now we get this quote.
"It was gratitude; --gratitude, not merely for having once loved her,
but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her
manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection."
Seriously, I love that quote. I think it expresses what love truly is. Forgiveness and the choice to love that person anyway.
The chapter ends with them deciding to repay an early visit as respectfully as they could which of course meant arriving early themselves. Mr. G ends up going fishing with the other guys at Pemberly and the chapter ends happy enough.
Chapter 45 because it is short and we need to get to the next section!!!!!
This Chapter consists of Miss Darcy being oh so very adorable as she stumbles through being a hostess. Lizzy notices that she obviously wants to join into the conversations but is so extremely shy that she hardly ever does. Miss Binlgey is there along with Miss Hurst and Miss Darcy's keeper. Miss Bingley becomes a jerk because she is jealous and barely says a thing until Darcy comes in and starts trying to make his sister and Lizzy friends. When she finally does speak she does so in order to make Lizzy look bad and in doing so brings up Wickham inadvertently. Even though she is out of the loop about how horrible he was to Miss Darcy she still looks like a total butt-head.
After everyone is gone Miss Bingley tries even harder to make Lizzy sound ugly and unworthy of attention. After listening to her complain and gripe Darcy finally speaks up and says that he even if he had said she was unattractive before he has long since decided that Elizabeth is the most beautiful woman he has ever met and the conversation ends.
Alright everyone that's all we have for these chapters I'll be back soonish. If I am not back on before then HAPPY CHRISTMAS! For when they happen updates find and follow me on twitter @KauruRoss and now on tumblr at kauruross.tumblr.com and feel free to ask me questions, leave comments, or chat about books and such.
And remember the reason for the season is the God-child not the presents they gave him.
Love always,
Kauru
So off we go with chapter 44. This chapter begins with Lizzy thinking that Darcy will be coming at a certain time and he shows up like a whole day earlier than she was expecting. Apparently his sister was so excited or curious about meeting Elizabeth, or Darcy was, that they came over right after Miss Darcy arrived at the Pemberly estate. This eagerness automatically tips Elizabeth's Aunt and Uncle off to the fact that Darcy probably likes Lizzy and by the time they have a conversation with the man they know he's in love.
Miss Darcy is probably the cutest thing in the whole book, yep even cuter than Jane. That might be because Jane is way to nice and good and she tends to get on my nerves. Any way Miss Darcy is around 14 or 15 and is described by Lizzy as having a well formed figure, graceful, and tall. She is also said to look happy but is rather shy with exceptional manners. Elizabeth pretty much automatically likes her. Darcy meanwhile is still acting like a totally different Darcy. He inquires about Lizzy's family, the family he formerly despised and avoided. He is happy and from what we get from Mr. and Mrs. G (the aunt and uncle) he is still very in love with Elizabeth. Then Bingley shows up, asks a bunch of questions that only half point in the direction of Jane. He is still full of charm and good humor that he had been full of back in Lizzy's town and it sort of looks like he has no clue that anything has happened. Pretty much he is oblivious to the fact that he was tricked into leaving Jane behind, because of that it is kind of hard to be angry with him very much and so Lizzy is friendly and tries to see how many times he asks questions that are indirectly linked to Jane. The party stays for about 45 minutes and then they leave, but only after Darcy guides his sister into asking Lizzy's group to come over the next day for dinner. Miss Darcy does so with a bit of adorable awkwardness and they all agree to go. Because honestly who could say no to that.
Miss Austen (the author for those who may have forgotten) then decides to leave a few nibblets about character through the perspective of Mr. and Mrs. G. about Darcy and Wickham. We are told that they can find no fault in Darcy and that once again it is obvious he loves Lizzy. The have been asking around to their friends and the people of the local towns and have discovered two things. One that Darcy is an upstanding member of his community. And two that Wickham makes a lot of messes for Darcy to clean up. Wickham had apparently skipped town leaving behind pretty large debts, debts that Darcy paid off for him.
Then we get to what is one of my favorite lines in the whole book. Lizzy lies awake for two hours just thinking about Darcy. She is trying to discover if she truly loves him, and if she wants him to re-propose and while she is thinking of all this and going through the reasons why she likes him better now we get this quote.
"It was gratitude; --gratitude, not merely for having once loved her,
but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her
manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection."
Seriously, I love that quote. I think it expresses what love truly is. Forgiveness and the choice to love that person anyway.
The chapter ends with them deciding to repay an early visit as respectfully as they could which of course meant arriving early themselves. Mr. G ends up going fishing with the other guys at Pemberly and the chapter ends happy enough.
Chapter 45 because it is short and we need to get to the next section!!!!!
This Chapter consists of Miss Darcy being oh so very adorable as she stumbles through being a hostess. Lizzy notices that she obviously wants to join into the conversations but is so extremely shy that she hardly ever does. Miss Binlgey is there along with Miss Hurst and Miss Darcy's keeper. Miss Bingley becomes a jerk because she is jealous and barely says a thing until Darcy comes in and starts trying to make his sister and Lizzy friends. When she finally does speak she does so in order to make Lizzy look bad and in doing so brings up Wickham inadvertently. Even though she is out of the loop about how horrible he was to Miss Darcy she still looks like a total butt-head. After everyone is gone Miss Bingley tries even harder to make Lizzy sound ugly and unworthy of attention. After listening to her complain and gripe Darcy finally speaks up and says that he even if he had said she was unattractive before he has long since decided that Elizabeth is the most beautiful woman he has ever met and the conversation ends.
Alright everyone that's all we have for these chapters I'll be back soonish. If I am not back on before then HAPPY CHRISTMAS! For when they happen updates find and follow me on twitter @KauruRoss and now on tumblr at kauruross.tumblr.com and feel free to ask me questions, leave comments, or chat about books and such.
And remember the reason for the season is the God-child not the presents they gave him.
Love always,
Kauru
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Dearest readers, my deepest apologies to any who have been loyally awaiting my return, there are not many of you but there may be a few. I have been busy with college and life and the pleasures of renting a house and have been unable or unmotivated to write. I have also been busy trying to breath life into my own novel which is many years in the making and has of late been demanding my attention. So I am very sorry for having not kept up my end of the bargain.
For those of you who have just stumbled onto this blog, WELCOME! I am crazy but somewhat educated in the art of enjoying and ripping apart literature, and I am happy to have your audience.
However, once anyone mentions Darcy she becomes very animated. She practically gushes about how handsome he is and how awesome and how amazing. And Lizzy is like "okay maybe I know a different Darcy?" you know except for the fact that she is looking a picture of him so there is really just a "hmm maybe she's just crazy" moment. Lizzy then starts getting curious. After the housekeeper brings up that she has never heard a "cross word from him" Lizzy is mentally humming with questions. This is just the beginning of her second guessing her decision to turn down Darcy's offer, when she realizes that maybe he is not the cool, jerk of a guy that she had thought he was.
For those of you who have just stumbled onto this blog, WELCOME! I am crazy but somewhat educated in the art of enjoying and ripping apart literature, and I am happy to have your audience.
Now on to Chapter 43!
This chapter starts off part three or volume the third depending on which edition you are or are not reading. It begins by welcoming us to Pemberley. Darcy's home is not just a home it is an estate. This being said it is filled with all of the best of things that should be in an estate at his particular time era and nothing extra. It has large parks and walks as well as a natural stream and woods. The house is described much like Darcy himself as handsome and stone walls, it also sits on a hill (add snarky get off you high horse metaphor here). Anyway to say the least there are immediate and immense "oooh"s and "aaaahhhh"s from Lizzy and her companions as they take in all that is the Pemberley house. Lizzy makes several mental notes about the fact that all of what she is currently seeing and loving could have been hers. Instead of coming to his house as a visiting intruder she could have been showing it off to her friends and family, then she remembers that Darcy being who he is, she could not have brought her family anywhere near Darcy's house married or not.
Then we meet the housekeeper. The housekeeper makes me smile. She is described as being civil and "much less fine" then Lizzy would have expected. In my mind I picture an older woman with gray hair and a strict face.
However, once anyone mentions Darcy she becomes very animated. She practically gushes about how handsome he is and how awesome and how amazing. And Lizzy is like "okay maybe I know a different Darcy?" you know except for the fact that she is looking a picture of him so there is really just a "hmm maybe she's just crazy" moment. Lizzy then starts getting curious. After the housekeeper brings up that she has never heard a "cross word from him" Lizzy is mentally humming with questions. This is just the beginning of her second guessing her decision to turn down Darcy's offer, when she realizes that maybe he is not the cool, jerk of a guy that she had thought he was.
The housekeeper goes on to say that though others call Darcy a proud man she sees only a hard working man who is simply not as involved with doing nothing as all the other crazy young men are. Darcy is also amazing when it comes to his little sister though Miss Darcy herself is a bit odd and shy. [ As a side note at one point they are shown to Miss Darcy's rooms and Elizabeth makes a funny statement about the artwork, they had been looking at the professional artwork on the walls and such when Lizzy (mentally) says this "...but Elizabeth knew nothing of the art: and from such as had been already visible below, willingly turned to look at some drawings of Miss Darcy's, in crayons, whose subjects were usually more interesting, and also more intelligible."] There is also a moment when she sees a painting of Darcy in which he is smiling. While she is still contemplating his smile they go outside for a walk and who should arrive but Mr. Darcy, in the flesh. So much for reliable servants Elizabeth would now have to face the man she had turned down, the man she was only just beginning to know.
Darcy the sucker for his own pain that he is immediately starts talking to her. He asks every question he can think to ask attempting to pull her into conversation and then when he runs out of things to say he walks away. OH MY GOSH BABBBBBBYYYYYYYYY! Sorry everyone this is where my heart begins to break a little I love this man so much. Anyway Lizzy starts beratting herself for coming, starts getting angry with Darcy because obviously he was just trying to make himself look good, why else would he care about how her family was doing? Right? She is so utterly confused with his easy gentlemen-like manners that she ends up over thinking things way too much.
So after a stroll through some of the woods they come back to the house and on their way back Darcy meets up with them and asks for an introduction to the Gardiners and Lizzy introduces them. Darcy is somewhat surprised, whether because she was related to fashionable descent people, or because they were in fact fashionable, descent people I'm not entirely sure. Regardless he is still being a perfect gentleman and Elizabeth actually ends up blushing. Mr. Darcy invites Mr. Gardiner to come and go fishing on the lands anytime he would like. Then to Lizzy's complete amazement Darcy asks if he can introduce her to his sister. So with those plans made they all get in their carriage and leave and the second they get on the move Elizabeth's Aunt and Uncle start with the "he's perfect and charming and awesome! how come you told us he was a jerk" lectures and Elizabeth mainly tries to make herself not look like an idiot before drifting into her own world.
And that's the end of this chapter and it was longer than anticipated so here is where I leave you. I will hopefully be back on later this week with more because we are so so so close to all of the drama so keep coming back! Also follow me on twitter @KauruRoss and on Tumblr at kauruross.tumblr.com for updates and funny things that happen to me on a regular basis! I'll speak at you soon,
Your Loving Writing Corespondent,
Ross
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Hello everyone. Today we will actually get back into the meat of the story!
Chapter 40
Chapter forty is Elizabeth telling Jane about what happened with Darcy and his letter. Lizzy tells everything about the proposal and about her response. Jane is so sweet that though she acknowledges that Darcy should have been more careful with what he said and that he should not have been "so sure of succeeding," she also sees how much pain Lizzy's refusal must have caused him. Then Lizzy goes on to tell her about the Wickham part of the letter. Again Jane's soft side shows itself when she tries to find a way to justify both men's actions without making one of them out to be a bad guy. Lizzy argues that there is no way to do so and that Jane must simply pick one and agree with that particular story. Interestingly Lizzy has joined team Darcy so woot for her.
On a literary note we see that Elizabeth is continuing to grow as she twice points out her past folly and prejudice and shows signs of guilt. Lizzy is beginning to accept that she has judged people unfairly and willing agrees that her guilt is a consequence "of the prejudices [she] had been encouraging."
The girls decide not to tell anyone else about what they have learned about Wickham because it is one, not their business to start telling everyone about what happened between Wickham and Darcy and two, because there would be no way to convince the people of the town that Wickham was a bad man since so many already loved him and believed Darcy to be a pompous jerk-face. Lizzy comforts herself with the knowledge that Wickham will be leaving town soon and that eventually the truth of his nature would out itself and then the two girls could laugh at everyone for being so stupid. I might add that that is rich coming from Lizzy since Darcy could have very well laughed directly in her face had he not been so down right angry about her turning down his proposal of marriage at the time.
Lizzy resolves never to tell Jane of what happened between Darcy and Bingley until the day comes that Bingley has returned and has resolved the issue himself. She says "The liberty of communication cannot be mine till it has lost all its value!" If only people did that all the time then there would be a lot less drama due to gossip. The main reason that Lizzy is not telling Jane about Darcy breaking them up is because she is protecting her. If Jane found out that the main reasons she lost Bingley was because she didn't show her affection enough and because her family is full of idiots it would only make her still very present depression worse.
The chapter ends with Mrs. B being an idiot again. She is talking to Lizzy about Jane and Bingley and after talking about how sad it all is says that her "comfort is, [she] is sure Jane will die of a broken heart, and then he will be sorry for what he has done." Yeah that's right. She hopes that Jane DIES of a broken hear so as to make Bingley feel bad...
I feel the need to move on.
Anyway she also complains some more about the Collinses because they have a decent amount of money and they probably lay awake at night talking about how much they want Mr. B to die so that they can have his house because that is obviously what they do...
Chapter 41
This chapter starts off with a little humor. The soldier boys who have been stationed in town are moving to Brighton which is a beach apparently filled with nice vacation homes. All the unmarried girls in town are upset and dreary but Lydia and Kitty are insanely upset. The only people who don't seem to care are Lizzy and Jane who are going about their normal business and apparently laughing at Lydia and Kitty. Mrs. B is all dramatic about the soldier she had crushed on when she was a young girl and they try to convince Mr. B that they should all go to Brighton for vacation *cough* and to follow the hot uniforms *cough*. Mr. B says no obviously.
But then there is Mrs. Foster. Mrs. Foster is a young woman who JUST got married to Colonel Foster who obviously has to move with his unit. Because Mrs. Foster and Lydia have been best friends for two of the three months that Mrs. Foster has been in town she asks Lydia to come with them to Brighton for a while. Lydia, who totally ignores Kitty, starts bouncing around the house and Mrs. B is too because she is just happy one of them gets to go. Kitty however gets upset because she is older than Lydia and she should have been the one who was asked to go. She literally just sits around whining all the time while Lydia is packing to go.
Meanwhile Lizzy is talking to her father to try to convince him to force Lydia to stay. Lizzy is rightfully worried that Lydia will further embarrass her family and do more damage to their reputation, which will in the end make it even harder for them to get married. In reality Lizzy is thinking about Darcy and how his prejudice against her family is probably warranted. Mr. B says that Lydia is going to find a way to embarrass herself in public anyway so she might as well do it as far away from the rest of the family as possible anyway. Lizzy predicts that Lydia will soon be "beyond the reach of amendment" and argues with a lot of passion that her father will not only lose Lydia but that this will directly effect Kitty who follows Lydia's lead on everything. Mr. B responds with "she cannot grow many degrees worse, without authorising (it is spelled that way in the book because spelling was different back then) us to lock her up for the rest of her life."
Since Wickham is a soldier he has to leave with the unit as well. Lizzy starts to find it harder and harder to be polite and during their last shared meal she pretty much lets him know that she knows who he really is and when he tries to go back to complaining about Darcy she shuts him down and smiles. The whole conversation is full of very well hidden snark and disguised so that no one but Wickham, or someone who knows the truth, would be able to pull out the true meaning of her words. Honestly it is well written and makes me miss the classy way that people used to insult one another.
The chapter ends with Lydia leaving and she is all fussy and squealing, Kitty is crying because she doesn't get to go to the beach with the boys. Lydia is so noisy as she is leaving that she doesn't even hear her others sisters half-heartedly say goodbye.
Chapter 42
This chapter opens with a little insight into why Mr. B married Mrs. B. Pretty much the answer is that she was pretty and seemed very nice because she was pretty and he had fallen for it. However after a short period of being married he realized that she was actually stupid and foolish. Because of this and there being little else to amuse himself with he took to laughing at her folly and because of this the children paid. We get the sense that Lizzy is upset with her father. She has always endeavored to look past his short comings, but she blames him for Lydia's foolishness.
Liz finds that because her sister and mother are still whining about the soldiers being gone and because Lydia is no doubt embarrassing all of them to the best of her abilities she cannot celebrate the absence of Wickham the way she had originally hoped to. Because of this she resorts to dreaming about her upcoming vacation plans with her Aunt and Uncle. She soon learns that because of her uncle's work their vacation got a bit messed up and they will not be going to the Lakes but to a different part of the country because it is where her aunt used to live. The place they are going is Derbyshire more specifically Lambton, also known as the place that holds Pemberly which is the residence of Mr. Darcy and his sister.
Finally the weeks pass and Liz gets picked up by the Gardiners who leave their four children with Jane. They set out and they are no sooner there when Mrs. Gardiner mentions visiting Pemberly and Mr. Gardiner agrees it will be nice, and after Lizzy makes sure that Darcy is out of town she also agrees that she is curious to see the house that could have been her house. Now this whole visiting someones house while they aren't home thing seems weird to us ,or at least to me, so allow me to explain to the best of my ability.
Back in the day if you had a beautiful house you would fill it with nice furniture, pianos, and luxurious furnishings as a sort of shout out to your rank. Living to your means was seen as respectable and your house was a large showcase of your social class. Also people prided themselves on the land that they owned and would often, if they could afford it, make large walks and gardens much like what we saw when Lizzy was at Rosings. This being said it becomes more understandable why people were encouraged to show up at peoples homes unannounced when they weren't home because the servants could show off their masters wealth and taste. It is weird and I cannot imagine someone who sort of knows of me walking around my house ooohing and aaaahing at all of my things, but it was normal especially for middle and higher class people typically for lower classes to look at the wealth of the upper class and acknowledge that they were in fact inferior.
This brings us to the end of the second part of the book. Yes it leaves us knowing that Lizzy will soon be walking along the lanes of Pemberly. The book is approaching its climax, but don't worry everything is resolved in the last three chapters which annoys me thoroughly.
Thank you all for reading, all five of you it would seem. Also I would once again like to give a shout out to BlackDoveComics as they are good friends and are often quite funny.
I will not be posting anything tomorrow as I have plans to be occupied, I will be updating soon as this is like my most favorite part coming up because we get to rant a lot. Keep up with me on google+, follow me on this site, or on twitter @KauruRoss.
Sincerely Your Writer,
Ross
Chapter 40
Chapter forty is Elizabeth telling Jane about what happened with Darcy and his letter. Lizzy tells everything about the proposal and about her response. Jane is so sweet that though she acknowledges that Darcy should have been more careful with what he said and that he should not have been "so sure of succeeding," she also sees how much pain Lizzy's refusal must have caused him. Then Lizzy goes on to tell her about the Wickham part of the letter. Again Jane's soft side shows itself when she tries to find a way to justify both men's actions without making one of them out to be a bad guy. Lizzy argues that there is no way to do so and that Jane must simply pick one and agree with that particular story. Interestingly Lizzy has joined team Darcy so woot for her.
On a literary note we see that Elizabeth is continuing to grow as she twice points out her past folly and prejudice and shows signs of guilt. Lizzy is beginning to accept that she has judged people unfairly and willing agrees that her guilt is a consequence "of the prejudices [she] had been encouraging."
The girls decide not to tell anyone else about what they have learned about Wickham because it is one, not their business to start telling everyone about what happened between Wickham and Darcy and two, because there would be no way to convince the people of the town that Wickham was a bad man since so many already loved him and believed Darcy to be a pompous jerk-face. Lizzy comforts herself with the knowledge that Wickham will be leaving town soon and that eventually the truth of his nature would out itself and then the two girls could laugh at everyone for being so stupid. I might add that that is rich coming from Lizzy since Darcy could have very well laughed directly in her face had he not been so down right angry about her turning down his proposal of marriage at the time.
Lizzy resolves never to tell Jane of what happened between Darcy and Bingley until the day comes that Bingley has returned and has resolved the issue himself. She says "The liberty of communication cannot be mine till it has lost all its value!" If only people did that all the time then there would be a lot less drama due to gossip. The main reason that Lizzy is not telling Jane about Darcy breaking them up is because she is protecting her. If Jane found out that the main reasons she lost Bingley was because she didn't show her affection enough and because her family is full of idiots it would only make her still very present depression worse.
The chapter ends with Mrs. B being an idiot again. She is talking to Lizzy about Jane and Bingley and after talking about how sad it all is says that her "comfort is, [she] is sure Jane will die of a broken heart, and then he will be sorry for what he has done." Yeah that's right. She hopes that Jane DIES of a broken hear so as to make Bingley feel bad... I feel the need to move on.
Anyway she also complains some more about the Collinses because they have a decent amount of money and they probably lay awake at night talking about how much they want Mr. B to die so that they can have his house because that is obviously what they do...
Chapter 41
This chapter starts off with a little humor. The soldier boys who have been stationed in town are moving to Brighton which is a beach apparently filled with nice vacation homes. All the unmarried girls in town are upset and dreary but Lydia and Kitty are insanely upset. The only people who don't seem to care are Lizzy and Jane who are going about their normal business and apparently laughing at Lydia and Kitty. Mrs. B is all dramatic about the soldier she had crushed on when she was a young girl and they try to convince Mr. B that they should all go to Brighton for vacation *cough* and to follow the hot uniforms *cough*. Mr. B says no obviously.
But then there is Mrs. Foster. Mrs. Foster is a young woman who JUST got married to Colonel Foster who obviously has to move with his unit. Because Mrs. Foster and Lydia have been best friends for two of the three months that Mrs. Foster has been in town she asks Lydia to come with them to Brighton for a while. Lydia, who totally ignores Kitty, starts bouncing around the house and Mrs. B is too because she is just happy one of them gets to go. Kitty however gets upset because she is older than Lydia and she should have been the one who was asked to go. She literally just sits around whining all the time while Lydia is packing to go.
Meanwhile Lizzy is talking to her father to try to convince him to force Lydia to stay. Lizzy is rightfully worried that Lydia will further embarrass her family and do more damage to their reputation, which will in the end make it even harder for them to get married. In reality Lizzy is thinking about Darcy and how his prejudice against her family is probably warranted. Mr. B says that Lydia is going to find a way to embarrass herself in public anyway so she might as well do it as far away from the rest of the family as possible anyway. Lizzy predicts that Lydia will soon be "beyond the reach of amendment" and argues with a lot of passion that her father will not only lose Lydia but that this will directly effect Kitty who follows Lydia's lead on everything. Mr. B responds with "she cannot grow many degrees worse, without authorising (it is spelled that way in the book because spelling was different back then) us to lock her up for the rest of her life."
Since Wickham is a soldier he has to leave with the unit as well. Lizzy starts to find it harder and harder to be polite and during their last shared meal she pretty much lets him know that she knows who he really is and when he tries to go back to complaining about Darcy she shuts him down and smiles. The whole conversation is full of very well hidden snark and disguised so that no one but Wickham, or someone who knows the truth, would be able to pull out the true meaning of her words. Honestly it is well written and makes me miss the classy way that people used to insult one another.
The chapter ends with Lydia leaving and she is all fussy and squealing, Kitty is crying because she doesn't get to go to the beach with the boys. Lydia is so noisy as she is leaving that she doesn't even hear her others sisters half-heartedly say goodbye.
Chapter 42
This chapter opens with a little insight into why Mr. B married Mrs. B. Pretty much the answer is that she was pretty and seemed very nice because she was pretty and he had fallen for it. However after a short period of being married he realized that she was actually stupid and foolish. Because of this and there being little else to amuse himself with he took to laughing at her folly and because of this the children paid. We get the sense that Lizzy is upset with her father. She has always endeavored to look past his short comings, but she blames him for Lydia's foolishness.
Liz finds that because her sister and mother are still whining about the soldiers being gone and because Lydia is no doubt embarrassing all of them to the best of her abilities she cannot celebrate the absence of Wickham the way she had originally hoped to. Because of this she resorts to dreaming about her upcoming vacation plans with her Aunt and Uncle. She soon learns that because of her uncle's work their vacation got a bit messed up and they will not be going to the Lakes but to a different part of the country because it is where her aunt used to live. The place they are going is Derbyshire more specifically Lambton, also known as the place that holds Pemberly which is the residence of Mr. Darcy and his sister.
Finally the weeks pass and Liz gets picked up by the Gardiners who leave their four children with Jane. They set out and they are no sooner there when Mrs. Gardiner mentions visiting Pemberly and Mr. Gardiner agrees it will be nice, and after Lizzy makes sure that Darcy is out of town she also agrees that she is curious to see the house that could have been her house. Now this whole visiting someones house while they aren't home thing seems weird to us ,or at least to me, so allow me to explain to the best of my ability.
Back in the day if you had a beautiful house you would fill it with nice furniture, pianos, and luxurious furnishings as a sort of shout out to your rank. Living to your means was seen as respectable and your house was a large showcase of your social class. Also people prided themselves on the land that they owned and would often, if they could afford it, make large walks and gardens much like what we saw when Lizzy was at Rosings. This being said it becomes more understandable why people were encouraged to show up at peoples homes unannounced when they weren't home because the servants could show off their masters wealth and taste. It is weird and I cannot imagine someone who sort of knows of me walking around my house ooohing and aaaahing at all of my things, but it was normal especially for middle and higher class people typically for lower classes to look at the wealth of the upper class and acknowledge that they were in fact inferior.
This brings us to the end of the second part of the book. Yes it leaves us knowing that Lizzy will soon be walking along the lanes of Pemberly. The book is approaching its climax, but don't worry everything is resolved in the last three chapters which annoys me thoroughly.
Thank you all for reading, all five of you it would seem. Also I would once again like to give a shout out to BlackDoveComics as they are good friends and are often quite funny.
I will not be posting anything tomorrow as I have plans to be occupied, I will be updating soon as this is like my most favorite part coming up because we get to rant a lot. Keep up with me on google+, follow me on this site, or on twitter @KauruRoss.
Sincerely Your Writer,
Ross
Friday, June 7, 2013
Chapter 38 is simply a goodbye chapter where Elizabeth says goodbye to the Collins' couple and heads for home. They make a quick stop to pick up Jane and then the chapter ends. The worst part about these two chapters is that they are there to make the reader feel the anticipation that Lizzy feels. She desperately wants to tell Jane about Darcy and his proposal and about Wickham but doesn't want to let anyone else in on the secrets because they are kind of big. To enforce this feeling the author adds these two chapters as filler chapters. For example the only thing that happens in chapter 39 is that the two sisters meet up with Lydia and Kitty in town and head home after lunch. The only reason this chapter is necessary at all is that it reveals more of Lydia's personality.
Lydia is perhaps the most annoying character in the book and yet I fear that we all know someone who has at some point been a Lydia. Lydia is young but completely compulsive. We see this at the beginning of chapter 39 when Lydia informs her older sisters that they will have to pay for lunch because she has spent all of her money on a bonnet that she then realizes she doesn't even really like but she couldn't leave a perfectly good bonnet at the store and not buy it now could she? She then spends the rest of the ride home either talking about the parties and Wickham or cutting off Kitty when she is trying to talk. When they finally get home she brags to Mary about all the fun that she had missed, takes credit for treating the other girls to lunch, and dismisses anything that Mary says after she is done talking. Honestly I can't stand this character and she just gets worse. I suppose most families have that one relative who is like Lydia. The one who cares only about themselves and spends most of their time embarrassing the rest of the family. Normally I would add in that that is what family is for and in real life I admit that it is, but this is literature and fiction and I find I am completely in loathing with Lydia. In fact I actually cannot even pick a character for her picture because she would completely tarnish any good qualities that go along with that character. I know that all of this negativity seems out of place if you haven't read the book but trust me when I tell you you will only grow to hate her character more. I guess some characters just have to be cannon fodder to make dramatic plot lines.
Anyway I have a massive headache and will be hopefully do a better post for the next chapters. I'm sorry about the Lydia rant that I used mainly as filler because I'm just not up for writing but I wanted to give you something. Look for another post sometime perhaps Monday night.
Stay cool, follow me on blogger, add me to circles under mad writers, or just keep up with twitter @KauruRoss in order to know when the posts go up.
Yours,
Ross
Lydia is perhaps the most annoying character in the book and yet I fear that we all know someone who has at some point been a Lydia. Lydia is young but completely compulsive. We see this at the beginning of chapter 39 when Lydia informs her older sisters that they will have to pay for lunch because she has spent all of her money on a bonnet that she then realizes she doesn't even really like but she couldn't leave a perfectly good bonnet at the store and not buy it now could she? She then spends the rest of the ride home either talking about the parties and Wickham or cutting off Kitty when she is trying to talk. When they finally get home she brags to Mary about all the fun that she had missed, takes credit for treating the other girls to lunch, and dismisses anything that Mary says after she is done talking. Honestly I can't stand this character and she just gets worse. I suppose most families have that one relative who is like Lydia. The one who cares only about themselves and spends most of their time embarrassing the rest of the family. Normally I would add in that that is what family is for and in real life I admit that it is, but this is literature and fiction and I find I am completely in loathing with Lydia. In fact I actually cannot even pick a character for her picture because she would completely tarnish any good qualities that go along with that character. I know that all of this negativity seems out of place if you haven't read the book but trust me when I tell you you will only grow to hate her character more. I guess some characters just have to be cannon fodder to make dramatic plot lines.
Anyway I have a massive headache and will be hopefully do a better post for the next chapters. I'm sorry about the Lydia rant that I used mainly as filler because I'm just not up for writing but I wanted to give you something. Look for another post sometime perhaps Monday night.
Stay cool, follow me on blogger, add me to circles under mad writers, or just keep up with twitter @KauruRoss in order to know when the posts go up.
Yours,
Ross
Saturday, June 1, 2013
So it is again time to express my apologies for my lack of updating the blog for the few people who actually read it. Finals week ran into traveling home which ran into my attendance at the Steam Punk World's Fair which lead into my attending a wedding and my escapades at the barn to rehabilitate my horse. Mixed into all of this was my desire to relax and the several trips to the movie theaters to see movies such as "Star Trek Into Darkness" and "Fast and Furious Six", which left me crying all over again anyone who has seen it will understand why. So forgive me for being "unsymetrical garbage" once again and I promise to try harder. I would also like to take this time to inform people that as of August I will be moving my blog to Tumbler with the help of our beloved Fox because of her damnation of the Blogger coding processes. "Don't Panic" there will be a link here sending you there when it is updated allowing for quick access for noobs. Now on with the book.
When I left you we had just finished reading the heartbreaking letter from Mr. Darcy to Elizabeth. Chapter 36 is Lizzy's response to the letter which is extremely bi-polar. First she admits that she expected it to be another marriage proposal which almost seems to prove Mr. Collins' logic right. Then she tries to convince herself that the whole thing was a huge falsehood that was not to be trusted. She goes as far as to say she will not read it ever again and within half a minute has the letter back in her hand again. She rereads the part about Wickham over and over. She relives her experiences with him and starts to notice things she had overlooked before. She realizes that he claimed that he had no fear of being around Darcy and that Darcy would leave before he did and yet he was the one who didn't show up at the ball. Then she remembers how he had said that out of memory of dead Mr. Darcy he would never out young Mr. Darcy as the jerk he claimed him to be and then once Darcy left town the whole town was made aware of his sob story. And in the midst of all of this she learns something far more important than Wickham's true character.
Elizabeth has her revelation moment in this chapter. She comes face to face with her own prejudice and how blinding it has been. She had once prided herself on being a good and fair judge of character and now she sees that she was really just judging people off of how well mannered they were in public. Without knowing anything about Wickham she had assumed him to be a good man because off his ability to be charming and sociable while at the same time she had assumed Darcy to be virtue-less because of his bad humor in public and his built in understanding of social barriers.
"Till this moment, I never knew myself" (page 205 in my book) This line is Lizzy finally coming to terms with her faults and is the beginning her shift into a more aware and less prejudiced person.
Because Miss Austen is actually a skilled writer (I do have some qualms about how she does certain things which we will discuss when we finally finish the book) she thought this through enough that like Darcy's letter is Lizzy's changing point, Lizzy turning Darcy down was necessary for Darcy to come face to face with his own faults which we see much later.
When she has finally finished rereading the section about Wickham she goes back and with clearer eyes rereads the section about Jane. She can finally admit that perhaps Darcy wasn't lying and that Jane probably could have expressed her feelings for Bingley more openly than she did in public. She also must concede that her family tends to be ridiculous at parties and that they embarrass all of the family by flirting with officers and singing badly at parties and all the other things they do to make it not worth marrying into the family. She begins to feel the hopelessness that Darcy has forced her to see and in some aspects begins to regret at the very least not being able to see what her family was before then.
Chapter 37
The Fitzwilliam boys leave and Lizzy is spared having to see them before they leave even though she has long forgotten the Colonel because she is forever thinking of Darcy's letter. When she has to sit through Lady Catherine again she amuses herself with thoughts of what she would have said and done after having received the news of Lizzy being her new niece.
Meanwhile Lady Catherine is completely lost in lala-land because she thinks that Darcy was grumpy and sad because he had to leave Rosings and her because he is so very fond of his lovely aunt. In reality of course he was moping because he just got "upbraided" (Lizzy's words) by a girl far under his own class who had also just turned down his marriage proposal. In respect to Darcy he had also just had to relive his unhappy past with Wickham which couldn't have been a pleasant stroll down memory lane.
After she is done talking about her lovely nephews she starts talking about how Lizzy should stay another week and Lizzy is all "Heck no I'm going home" actually she says her dad has requested that she come home and Lady Jerk-Face is all "daughters are never of so much consequence to a father" JERK. Anyway she then spends the rest of the day half asking half telling them about their trip home. She says that they should get a servant to go home with them because they are two girls who will be traveling Post. Traveling post meant that essentially that they were riding in the same carriage as the mail. Lady Catherine says that young women should always be accompanied "according to their situation in life." Funny enough the two common girls (Lizzy and Maria) only rank one servant where as her daughter alone gets two. Lizzy listens and responds in order to stop herself from drifting into her thoughts and forgetting where she was.
At the end of the chapter Lizzy begins to have fond feelings toward Darcy but tells herself that she hopes to never see him again. She fails to see a future when her past actions were so horrible and her family is so embarrassing. She falls again into hopelessness at the thought of her family and her two younger sisters who are typically the cause of her families pain. She becomes unbelievably depressed at the thought of how much Jane lost by loosing Bingley's affections because of her family. Before heading out they are so much annoyed by Lady Catherine's nagging about how to pack that little Maria is so worried about her luggage that she goes home and completely repacks her trunk.
So that is that. I finally got the next two chapters up and hopefully I wont ever wait this long again. Thank you all of my Minions and may you all have a blessed day full of fun and relaxation. Follow me on Twitter @KauruRoss for updates since that is almost all I use it for, I will never understand the tweetering process as an actual means of communication.
Also I will be adding a new link to my brother and his friend's blog which is a comic blog they are funny, especially if you are a gamer.
At your service as a Writer,
Ross
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