*SPOILER ALERT*
At the beginning when my friend recommended it, I saw the cover read the back and honestly thought "what kind of crap is this?" She begged me so much to read it, so I did and it was nothing to what I was expecting. I’d like to consider The Sea Of Tranquility as a love- dramatic novel because of all of events that develop as you read. I got hooked to the story just by the opening lines:
“I hate my left hand. I hate to look at it. I hate it when it stutters and trembles and reminds me that my identity is gone. But I look at it anyway, because it also reminds me that I’m going to kill the boy who killed me, and when I kill him, I’m going to do it with my left hand.” (1)
I absolutely love how this is written because if I truly focus on the essence of it, I can relate to how she’s feeling: every single one of us on our times of need we look back to our mistakes realizing how much we’d like to change it and sometimes if you’re brave enough, we concentrate on the next step to get revenge by blaming someone. By now we can see that something happened to this girl, something that changed her making her feel dead. This book is understood by two different perspectives: Nastya’s and Josh’s. It all starts when Nastya goes to sign in into her new school, she moved with her aunt to get away from everyone she knows specially her family because it was all a constant reminder of what happened. She’s constantly saying
“I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants or shapeshifters, no angles or superhuman boys to save you. A place where people die and music disintegrates and things suck. I am pressed so hard against the earth by the weight of reality that some days I wonder how I am still able to lift my feet to walk” ( 36) This makes me think of all of the things she’s been through that made Nastya feel like the world is closing it's doors to her. I’ve never had a situation like that, that changes your way to see the world and makes stop having a reason to live. That’s a fundamental point right there “a reason to live”, without it you feel useless.
PUTRID
- In a state of foul decay or decomposition, as animal or vegetable matter; rotten.
-There was a putrid smell coming from my neighbors garbage, maybe she killed her dog.
COMMOTION
-Violent or tumultuous motion; agitation; noisy disturbance
-Oh dear Lord! What's all the commotion in the bathroom? I think Jerry ate the killer beans again...
CROWDING
- A large number of persons gathered closely together
- There was a crowding of people outside the presidents house because he's doing nothing to help the country.
PEG
A pin of wood or other material driven or fitted into something, as tofasten parts together, to hang things on, to make fast a rope or stringon, to stop a hole, or to mark some point.
There was a peg fitted in the wooden chair my grandma bought in Rome.
IDLING
Not working or active; unemployed; doing nothing
I wonder what my parents would think if I started idling.
At the beginning when my friend recommended it, I saw the cover read the back and honestly thought "what kind of crap is this?" She begged me so much to read it, so I did and it was nothing to what I was expecting. I’d like to consider The Sea Of Tranquility as a love- dramatic novel because of all of events that develop as you read. I got hooked to the story just by the opening lines:
“I hate my left hand. I hate to look at it. I hate it when it stutters and trembles and reminds me that my identity is gone. But I look at it anyway, because it also reminds me that I’m going to kill the boy who killed me, and when I kill him, I’m going to do it with my left hand.” (1)
I absolutely love how this is written because if I truly focus on the essence of it, I can relate to how she’s feeling: every single one of us on our times of need we look back to our mistakes realizing how much we’d like to change it and sometimes if you’re brave enough, we concentrate on the next step to get revenge by blaming someone. By now we can see that something happened to this girl, something that changed her making her feel dead. This book is understood by two different perspectives: Nastya’s and Josh’s. It all starts when Nastya goes to sign in into her new school, she moved with her aunt to get away from everyone she knows specially her family because it was all a constant reminder of what happened. She’s constantly saying
“I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants or shapeshifters, no angles or superhuman boys to save you. A place where people die and music disintegrates and things suck. I am pressed so hard against the earth by the weight of reality that some days I wonder how I am still able to lift my feet to walk” ( 36) This makes me think of all of the things she’s been through that made Nastya feel like the world is closing it's doors to her. I’ve never had a situation like that, that changes your way to see the world and makes stop having a reason to live. That’s a fundamental point right there “a reason to live”, without it you feel useless.
PUTRID
- In a state of foul decay or decomposition, as animal or vegetable matter; rotten.
-There was a putrid smell coming from my neighbors garbage, maybe she killed her dog.
COMMOTION
-Violent or tumultuous motion; agitation; noisy disturbance
-Oh dear Lord! What's all the commotion in the bathroom? I think Jerry ate the killer beans again...
CROWDING
- A large number of persons gathered closely together
- There was a crowding of people outside the presidents house because he's doing nothing to help the country.
PEG
A pin of wood or other material driven or fitted into something, as tofasten parts together, to hang things on, to make fast a rope or stringon, to stop a hole, or to mark some point.
There was a peg fitted in the wooden chair my grandma bought in Rome.
IDLING
Not working or active; unemployed; doing nothing
I wonder what my parents would think if I started idling.