I'd like to know what you think about the novel. Which character do you like most? How about Garcia's usage of language...I love the poetry of the text and I love the reality of Pilar and Lourdes' relationship. So write back and let me know.
Mama
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I'm IN LOVE with Pilar!
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"Outside the afternoon light is a dark, moist violet. It's a matrix light, a recombinant light that disintegrates hard lines and planes, rearranging objects to their essences. Usually I hate it when artists get too infatuated with light, but this is special. It's the light I love to paint in." Pilar page 178
ReplyDeleteHow can you not love her:) She's clever but romantic; artistic, angry and quirky. Mama
I like how this book is much more "explicit"...caugh, caugh...then the other books we've read. But truly, it is nice to see something more suited to my desensitized mind, something that faces not only sexuality, but FEMALE sexuality head on.
ReplyDeleteneedless to say, I second Simon's comment, I'm smitten with the artistic, punk force that is Pilar.
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ReplyDeleteKyle told me that you said that he would "LOVE" the book. I see why! *wink* I really liked the book. I liked how Garcia told each chapter from a different perspective, just like in Heller's Catch-22. I agree with Kyle and Simon on Pilar. Her character is refreshing and I was always most eager to read the chapters told from her point of view.
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So far I am enjoying Dreaming in Cuban =)
ReplyDeleteI have to agree with all of you; Pilar has to be my favorite character of them all so far. She's just so real. I love the way she takes on life as it comes. The way she handled herself when she found her boyfriend, Ruben, with another girl still amazes me; I know that I would have not been able to take it with the maturity Pilar did. Instead of crying herself to sleep (like I probably would have done) she goes and buys an instrument (I can't remember what instrument she bought!). Oh and the way she sees light just takes my breath away, especially in that passage from above. She expresses herself with paint as a poet expresses himself with words. I was really captivated by a particular passage when Pilar describes the color green; I don’t remember in what page, but I remember it being in the beginning. She explained that she couldn't understand why the doctors didn't use green lasers, since green is supposed to represent life and living things, on her grandfather, and decided that if the doctors had used a green laser instead of a blue one, her grandfather would have lived. Colliding
As much as I love Pilar, I would hate to have the kind of relationship she has with her mother with my own mother. I see why they have such a colliding relationship, though, and I must say that Lourdes has to be my least favorite character, along with Jorge del Pino. Lourdes express her hate for El Lider, yet she, herself, is like a dictator in her own household trying to manipulate every aspect of her husband's and daughter’s lives and activities.
I feel apathetic when it comes to Felicia; her life is just a mess; her twins don't appreciate her and only think she is a nut, instead of feeling compassion for their mother.
Oh and Celia is crazy for worshiping Fidel Castro!(No offence to anyone). She prides herself in "helping" the revolution and contributing to it when the reality of it is that the "revolution" is just taking advantage of her free labor. The revolution's policies, such as the food tickets and the court of neighbors, just show how the revolution is tearing apart the island instead of uniting as one.
Sorry guys, I know it's a bit long.
She bought a stand-up bass, which is the perfect instrument, so full of soul and life and living, the heartbeat of music....definitely in connection with her personality....just how Celia plays Debussy.
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ReplyDeleteDaniela, the passage you refer to is on page 33. The motif of colors in the text fascinates me. Your comment about Lourdes and Castro is right on...Lourdes see everything in black and white and has no patiencefor people who can see between. I love how Garcia juxtaposes Lourdes of black and white with Pilar and also Felicia who talks in green. What does that mean? Also..pleaselook up the cieba tree...it must be significant?
Mama
Yes the music...I will be playing Debussey in class.
ReplyDeleteWow, I just finished. That was amazing! I don't know what to say other than wow. I'll write something as soon as I can articulate something intelligent to say, if I can at all.
ReplyDeleteI love Pilar!
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