Did the book come to a satisfactory closure for you? Why/Why not?
--Such a Pretty, Pretty Girl had a good ending. Johnny was in love with Delia who broke his heart long time ago but he still wanted to help her with anything. The book didn't answer a lot of question like how was Delia sex encounters were so memorable, what were her secrets about her life,or what was in those letters. The story didn't even tell what happen to Rick after he got caught by the police trying to kill Delia. But I'm kind of sad it didn't have a Cinderella story, because the whole story is told by Johnny and it makes me feel like I know him. Before I read what Johnny was thinking, I already knew before I read it. Johnny didn't get the girl, Delia divorced Brad, and she moved to away to another state. The story leaves the reader to make their own conclusion of the end, rather its an happy one or not. But as a whole the story/book was good.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
5th post
"He was married, but he wasn't really clean with her about it. Just let her assume he wasn't. Then she ran into his wife and found out. It really set her off. She and the wife had words, I don't know exactly what, but it was unpleasant. A few weeks later the wife commits suicide. I think Rick blames Delia for some of that the wife commits suicide. I think Rick blames Delia for some of that, and Delia blames him for it too"(p288 Groom).
--This passage is the beginning of the down fall action in the story. Johnny and Brad start to figure out who been blackmailing Delia. The blackmailer was always with them and it was Brad friend Rick, who is a police investigator. The passage explains Rick motive and shows him in a different light. I guess Delia's so called "honesty" has hurt everyone she meets.
--This passage is the beginning of the down fall action in the story. Johnny and Brad start to figure out who been blackmailing Delia. The blackmailer was always with them and it was Brad friend Rick, who is a police investigator. The passage explains Rick motive and shows him in a different light. I guess Delia's so called "honesty" has hurt everyone she meets.
Saturday, November 29, 2008
4th post
"What is it with this project? Burr continued. It has to do with that TV girl right? What?Are you obsessed with her or something? I mean, look, this is heavy material, Johnny, You've created a very complicated character here. That's what I said I was going to do. And that's exactly what I told you not to do, right? It'll be okay, Toby, be patient, I said" (p 154 Groom).
--Johnny is suppose to work on his friends script for a movie, and instead of working on it like his friend wanted him to Johnny put his own twisted in it. Johnny is so ramped up in Delia, it is messing up his work and his friendship. As I'm reading this book, Delia is persuasive. I just hope Johnny remembers that Delia has two sides to her and she is a married women.
Will Delia revel herself?
Will Johnny get over Delia?
--Johnny is suppose to work on his friends script for a movie, and instead of working on it like his friend wanted him to Johnny put his own twisted in it. Johnny is so ramped up in Delia, it is messing up his work and his friendship. As I'm reading this book, Delia is persuasive. I just hope Johnny remembers that Delia has two sides to her and she is a married women.
Will Delia revel herself?
Will Johnny get over Delia?
Sunday, November 16, 2008
3rd post
"It seemed strange to me at the time that faculty advisers would take their female students out on dinner dates, but it has become much clearer to me now. Among the names on Delia's lover list was one Horest Vining, English Department, Columbia University"(p 88 Groom).
--In this passage Johnny figures out that Delia had a thing going on with her teacher. His love or lust for her is blinding him to see the real Delia, but makes him see only the Delia that he remembers. But at this point I think the reader and Johnny will realize and the story will revile some aspects of the past life of Delia.
Who is Delia?
How did Delia become this mysterious person?
What is her secret?
--In this passage Johnny figures out that Delia had a thing going on with her teacher. His love or lust for her is blinding him to see the real Delia, but makes him see only the Delia that he remembers. But at this point I think the reader and Johnny will realize and the story will revile some aspects of the past life of Delia.
Who is Delia?
How did Delia become this mysterious person?
What is her secret?
2nd post
"It had been strange, almost creepy, sitting there discussing Delia with one her bedmates. And what was the sex thing with her he didn't want to to talk about? That seemed peculiar, especially since he'd brought up the subject on the first place"(75 Groom).
--Johnny has taken the charge to find all Delia past lovers, to see who is blackmailing her. And every time Johnny asked the ex-lovers a series of questions, the subject about their sex encounters with Delia keep coming up. But when the ex-lovers see that Johnny doesn't know about it, they seem mad and quick to drop the subject; one even stormed out. This passage in the story brings us two steps back or forward, from knowing who is Delia and what are her intentions from all these men.
Why do Delia keep leaving men when they to close to her?
Why is Delia sex encounter so private? I thought men boast about things like that.
Is Delia a man or something?
--Johnny has taken the charge to find all Delia past lovers, to see who is blackmailing her. And every time Johnny asked the ex-lovers a series of questions, the subject about their sex encounters with Delia keep coming up. But when the ex-lovers see that Johnny doesn't know about it, they seem mad and quick to drop the subject; one even stormed out. This passage in the story brings us two steps back or forward, from knowing who is Delia and what are her intentions from all these men.
Why do Delia keep leaving men when they to close to her?
Why is Delia sex encounter so private? I thought men boast about things like that.
Is Delia a man or something?
Saturday, November 1, 2008
2nd Book
"She got up and headed for the phone at the end of he bar. Whoever it was, the conversation was quick, but when Delia returned she was ashen and glanced around nervously as she sat down, as though she expected something or someone she didn't want to see"(p.10 Groom).
--I'm reading a book called Such a Pretty, Pretty Girl. The passage I guess is the rising action for the plot. I didn't think the rising action would be in the first chapter, but the book is still good. The narrator/main character is a man name Johnny. Johnny and Delia are old flames and they haven't seen each other for fifteen years and the irony is that the meet up in a bar unexpectedly. So right now the book is very interesting.
Who was Delia talking to?
Why is Delia so disturb?
And what is Delia hiding or what secret does she have?
--I'm reading a book called Such a Pretty, Pretty Girl. The passage I guess is the rising action for the plot. I didn't think the rising action would be in the first chapter, but the book is still good. The narrator/main character is a man name Johnny. Johnny and Delia are old flames and they haven't seen each other for fifteen years and the irony is that the meet up in a bar unexpectedly. So right now the book is very interesting.
Who was Delia talking to?
Why is Delia so disturb?
And what is Delia hiding or what secret does she have?
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