In this book, I found the plot to be very captivating and heart wrenching. While reading it, I felt frustration with the main character's major choices and lack of will to fight for her freedom. If anything had been written differently in this book it would be how the main character reacted to her father's lies.The book Once gets a four star rating from me because the author projected her talented writing skills through the insanely thrilling and mind boggling story line. However, despite the terrific story line there were many portions of the book which made me as a reader feel frustrated. Overall the story flowed well and had held my attention all throughout.
A quest involves five main points. A) a quester, B) a place to go, C)stated reason to go, D) trials and tribulations along the way, E) a real reason to go. In Once, the quester is Eve. Her place to go is Califia. Her stated reason to go is to escape her father and to leave his wrath. The trials and tribulations that she faces are getting captured, being lost, feeling alone, and struggling to find peace. Eve finally comes to the realization that her real reason for leaving her father's home is to fine peace and serenity in love. In the book Once, the main character is Eve who can strongly relate to Laila, one of the main characters of A Thousand Splendid Suns. Eve is taken hostage in her father's kingdom, being forced to marry a man she barely knows, while wanting to leave to find her true love again and be happy once and for all. At one point in the book Eve is told that her boyfriend, Caleb is dead. She believes this and weeps and stays in marriage with her forced husband, Charles. This relates to Laila in A Thousand Splendid Suns because Laila is forced to marry Rasheed, is told that her one true love is dead, then stays in the bad marriage. Both Eve and Laila go through tough times with realizing they have been lied to about their true loves.
In the book Once, the plot is based on fictional story line. With A Thousand Splendid Suns the story line is based on a reality of the women in the Middle East. Another difference is that the two main characters, Eve(Once) and Laila(A Thousand Splendid Suns) both went on quests for love and peace,however they ended up differently because Laila finds true love and peace, however Eve does not find her true love at the end of the book Once. Instead she is left thinking her true love has become lost and dead. Over all the themes and the plots and meanings within the two books are so different that they are easier to compare than to find similarities. In reality, most people are not forced into a religion or a situation where they lose their one true love. In reality, the characters of the book would not survive because they have a fiction lifestyle in the book. In the book, Eve is forced into a marriage with Charles. However, in reality, it is more than likely that Eve would not be forced into a marriage. Another aspect of Once compared to reality is that the author wrote the book as if it were in a different real. She did not intend for Once to seem as if it were a reality. It was solely for the purpose of entertainment and captivation. After escaping from her school Eve is staying in Califia, which is a haven for women. She was safe from the fate that awaits all of the orphaned girls in The New America. However, Eve's saftey comes with a price. She was forced to leave her one true love, Caleb, at the gates, wounded and alone at the city gates. When Eve hears that Caleb is in trouble, she leaves to rescue him, however is unfortunately captured and brought to the City of Sand,the capital of The New America. Trapped, she finds a shocking secret about her past and is forced to confront the harsh reality of her future. After discovering her true love is alive Eve tries to escape her prison with the risk of the outcome being deadly. |
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May 2015
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