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3.4 AVERAGE
3.4 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
the story is ok, nothing incredibly special.
the author is too liberal with his adjectives, and sometimes outright grammatically incorrect, for example: "he despised him a little" or is impossible to despise someone only a little. to despise ia an absolute feeling
the author is too liberal with his adjectives, and sometimes outright grammatically incorrect, for example: "he despised him a little" or is impossible to despise someone only a little. to despise ia an absolute feeling
dark
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
"'My boy,' said his mother to him, 'all your cleverness, your breaking away from old things, and taking life in your own hands, doesn't seem to bring you much happiness.'"
A tale of a mother's love for her sons, and a tale of a son in relation to the most important women in his life; his mother and his lovers. The son himself, Paul, is a sensitive, artistic, intelligent and capable man; and he is ever accompanied by all the sorrows that linger along those qualities. First and foremost the seclusion from other people, the fact that nearly nobody understands him, and those that do, swallow him whole, suck him dry. Those that want to, want him to - ultimately - only to be understood themselves, and therefore fail. Secondly, the restlessness that this incapacity to settle firmly creates, in tandem with the unceasing curiosity for the new. Finally, the tragedy of perpetuating this situation, simply because he grows into it so thoroughly, that it becomes nigh impossible to see he would be capable of the things he wishes to be of.
"They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse."
"Everything had a religious and intensified meaning when he was with her. His soul, hurt, highly developed, sought her as if for nourishment. Together they seemed to sift the vital fact from an experience."
"They were both very happy so, and both unconscious of it. These times, that meant so much, and which were real living, they almost ignored."
"His whole manner was of cowed defiance, as if he were ready to knock anybody down who disapproved of him - perhaps because he really disapproved of himself."
A tale of a mother's love for her sons, and a tale of a son in relation to the most important women in his life; his mother and his lovers. The son himself, Paul, is a sensitive, artistic, intelligent and capable man; and he is ever accompanied by all the sorrows that linger along those qualities. First and foremost the seclusion from other people, the fact that nearly nobody understands him, and those that do, swallow him whole, suck him dry. Those that want to, want him to - ultimately - only to be understood themselves, and therefore fail. Secondly, the restlessness that this incapacity to settle firmly creates, in tandem with the unceasing curiosity for the new. Finally, the tragedy of perpetuating this situation, simply because he grows into it so thoroughly, that it becomes nigh impossible to see he would be capable of the things he wishes to be of.
"They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse."
"Everything had a religious and intensified meaning when he was with her. His soul, hurt, highly developed, sought her as if for nourishment. Together they seemed to sift the vital fact from an experience."
"They were both very happy so, and both unconscious of it. These times, that meant so much, and which were real living, they almost ignored."
"His whole manner was of cowed defiance, as if he were ready to knock anybody down who disapproved of him - perhaps because he really disapproved of himself."
Plot or Character Driven:
Character