Post 3

SORRY Ms B!!! I know this is late and I'm going to use one of my late slips.  Anyhow, back to the post.  This week I finished Pride and Prejudice.  I can't remember where I left off last time but I'll just start up.  I LOVED THIS BOOK!! It was so twisted and it doesn't explain itself very well but the story is so ironic and just funny sometimes.  At first Elizabeth absolutely HATES this man and by the end, she is completely in love with him.  And the man she thought she loved is married to her sister and is a complete idiot and screwup.  Also one of her other sisters is in love with one man at the beginning and is "indifferent" in the middle and is head over heels in the end ALL FOR THE SAME GUY! Jane Austen is brilliant and I can't even imagine how she comes up with these things.  There's a quote that I found that said that nothing much happens in her stories, but at the end of every page you still can't wait to turn the page.  I think this is so true.  Ms Austen has this simple but complex story that probably could take up maybe one hundred pages and she makes it almost four hundred pages that are entirely enthralling.  I also read the introduction after I finished the book and it said that all Jane Austen did was describe how men and women acted around each other in her time.  I realized that this is so true but no one ever thinks of it as that simple because she knows just how to make it interesting.  All of the interactions between Mr Darcy and Elizabeth are so plain and boring but the author spices it up somehow. I still can't figure it out, but you can be sure that I will.