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Rivella

When I first started reading the book, I really enjoyed. It was interesting to see two men describing her in such admiration terms. Once he got into the part where he first met and fell in love with her, I was quite surprised. It was different to read sbout how much Lovemore was in love with Rivella. He took on the role of a "love sick teenager" by today's standards. It was interesting to see that for once it wasn't the female who was "love sick" rather the male. The roles had been reversed in this situation. Lovemore would have done anything for Rivella; but she didn't pay any attention to him. I really like this quote when Lovemore was describing how much he loved her "I would have kissed her, and embraced her a thousand times over, but had no opportunity" (p. 53).

I found it interesting that Rivella would not marry Lovemore because she didn't not love him as he did her. He wanted to help her in any way, and he believe that it would be good if she married him. She only saw him as a friend and wouldn't marry because of that fact.

As I continued to read, I also got confused as to what was going on. At times I had no idea how certain things had to do with Rivella. I would have to skip ahead to make sure that he was still talking about her, then go back and read it again. At times I would end up paying more attention to the footnotes and then I would forgot what that had to do with the story.

I have one question that maybe someone could tell me. Why do some of the words have a "k" added on to them ex. topick

Posted by webasst at March 9, 2004 11:53 AM | TrackBack