Thursday, April 2, 2009
Lost Innocence
innocence...it's a subject that Lucy brings up towards the end of the novel, as she is evaluating her life. She says on page 153 "I was twenty years old-not a long time to be alive- and yet there was not an ounce of innocence on my face." It makes her feel disconnected from the rest of the world, as if she will never really belong to the city. She feels this way about both the city and her home island. She feels like an outsider in both places, and because of her conflicting experiences in both places she feels like she can't relate. Her experiences from her childhood have given her a different insights than the people that grew up in the city, therefore they don't really understand her, and vice versa. Then she comes to the city, and what she goes through there isolate her from the people she knows from home. She no longer can talk to them about things they could possibly imagine. She has become trapped between two worlds, and it makes her completely alone.
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I agree that Lucy does not seem to have a place to fit in. I feel sorry for her. She has distanced herself too much from those around her at home, and she is still not understood by the people in her new city since she is still different than them. Lucy does not seem to have her own place in the world yet. I'm hoping that since she is still only 20 that she will find a place where she can belong to.
ReplyDeletehey Diana,
ReplyDeletedo you think that she can't relate because she won't let herself or that it really is impossible to for her? to compare, everyone here was raised in different areas, and even though we don't have many from different countries, we all have different childhood experiences...
j