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diff --git a/content/books/klara-and-the-sun.md b/content/books/klara-and-the-sun.md index ba54008..10a2d20 100644 --- a/content/books/klara-and-the-sun.md +++ b/content/books/klara-and-the-sun.md @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ _Know what? Your friend will make a perfect friend for someone out there. But ye Once Klara finally moves in to live with Josie, we learn that not everyone in the household appreciates Klara's presence. Melania, the housekeeper, is opposing from the start, and treats Klara with suspicion and hostility: -_[...] but then Melania Housekeeper came between us, and before I was fully aware, had taken Josie’s arm, tucking it under her own_. +_[...] but then Melania Housekeeper came between us, and before I was fully aware, had taken Josie’s arm, tucking it under her own._ Moreover, Josie's best friend Rick doesn't like Klara either. _'Rick, this is Klara.' Rick went on concentrating on his remote and didn’t look my way.'You said you’d never get an AF,' he said._ However, with time Klara becomes a part of the family. Rick sympathizes with her during the party at Josie's house, and Melania entrusts her with taking care of Josie during the trip to the city. diff --git a/content/books/lolita.md b/content/books/lolita.md index ae5fd0a..338113c 100644 --- a/content/books/lolita.md +++ b/content/books/lolita.md @@ -14,14 +14,14 @@ After getting into a discussion with her, I have decided to give the book a try. The book is narrated by Humbert Humbert, a forty year old man from Europe who emigrated to America before the outbreak of World War II. He teaches French literature and at the start of the novel is writing a series of academic books. Once he travels in to Ramsdale, the small, countryside town, he meets Dolores Haze, the titular Lolita. -At this point in the book the reader's image of Humbert is clear - he is obsessed with a certain type of girl, usually around 12 years of age, due to an unfulfilled childhood relationship with Annabel in France: _In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, a certain initial girl-child_. +At this point in the book the reader's image of Humbert is clear - he is obsessed with a certain type of girl, usually around 12 years of age, due to an unfulfilled childhood relationship with Annabel in France: _In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, a certain initial girl-child._ Knowing very well the intentions of Humbert towards Dolores, readers are driven to worry about her from the first steps he makes when deciding to move into the old Ramsdale home. Dolores at the start of the book is around 12 years of age. She is an energetic young girl, by all means typical for her age. She dislikes studying, is oftentimes moody and rebellious against her mother. _Charlotte Haze [...] underlined the following epithets, ten out of forty, under "Your Child's -Personality": aggressive, boisterous, critical, distrustful, impatient, irritable, inquisitive, listless_. +Personality": aggressive, boisterous, critical, distrustful, impatient, irritable, inquisitive, listless._ To the readers eyes, she is just a girl in primary school. To Humbert, she is the lost love of his life and becomes the primary object of his obsession. The rest of the book describes in detail their relationship and how it evolves over the course of 5 years. |