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2.84 AVERAGE
2.84 AVERAGE
dark
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
loved the heartbreaking story however i found it oddly difficult to concentrate which kinda ruined my reading experience of this book.
Read for University — Beginnings module
Read for University — Beginnings module
I understand this book is very important and brings up a lot of interesting themes, but it was also terribly boring most of the time. I didn't read it so much as I just struggled through it...I would put more time and effort into a longer review, but I honestly just want to be done with Oroonoko forever XD
This wasn't good or bad, if you take into consideration the time in which it was written. I was expecting to see an actual condemnation of slavery based on the book's description, but that did not come.
challenging
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I simply despise this book
The story is beautiful all over, and I'm addressing this piece as fiction despite all Aphra Behn's swearings that they were all true. The (not-so) funny part is how all those people were being racists even before the word 'racist' was invented. Oroonoko is physically described so that he is closer to a white person than to his native race, he's being "beautified" by being added white features: "His face was not of brown rusty black which most of that nation are, but of perfect ebony... His nose was rising and Roman (?), instead of African and flat. His mouth the finest shaped that could be seen; far from those great turned lips which are so natural to the rest of the negroes." Our hero is not only the other for the white folk, he is also being made a stranger in this own tribe.
That ending though. That ending.
That ending though. That ending.
dark
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes