Ebooks Free Download | The Member of the Wedding (Bloom's Guides) | 12 year old Frankie has few friends outside of Berenice the maid and young John Henry. The older children wont let her in their 'clubs'and she is caught between childhood and adulthood. In her lonesomeness and isolation she makes believe her own importance and standing in the world,caught between wanting to belong and to be her own self. When her brother announces his wedding,she has the idea of joining them and traveling the world. A rites of passage novel that really captures the growing pains of adolescence;the influence of loneliness on ones view of life and making yourself important in the world. Carson McCullers has a unique skill that fully realizes the pain of being anonymous in a great big world. 'Wedding' follows on brilliantly from 'The Heart is a Lonely Hunter'. I'm staggered that so many reviewers rate this book so low. The story works as a cumulative whole in superbly evoking its theme. It isn't heavily plotted like a thriller, but thats not what it aims at. I can only assume that if you want a clever twisting plot, this book wont rate highly. But if you want something that captures the human condition, you wont find better (unless its another novel written by Carson McCullers.
The second thing I loved about The Member of the Wedding was its setting. Frankie lives in a small town in Georgia during World War II. Loneliness surrounds her. Her mother died during childbirth with her, so she has never had a mother or siblings. Her father works a lot and when he is home, he is in his own world of books and newspapers, and really doesn't pay her much attention. Her only good girl friend moved away, and she's not a member of the "club" of popular girls at her school. She used to be part of it at one time, but as she got a bit older it's clear that she's different from those girls. Sexual identity is explored in the book: Frankie wants to be a pretty, grown woman, but, with her dirty elbows, her crew cut, and her hyper (some would say obnoxious) personality, in many ways she looks and acts more like a boy.
The second thing I loved about The Member of the Wedding was its setting. Frankie lives in a small town in Georgia during World War II. Loneliness surrounds her. Her mother died during childbirth with her, so she has never had a mother or siblings. Her father works a lot and when he is home, he is in his own world of books and newspapers, and really doesn't pay her much attention. Her only good girl friend moved away, and she's not a member of the "club" of popular girls at her school. She used to be part of it at one time, but as she got a bit older it's clear that she's different from those girls. Sexual identity is explored in the book: Frankie wants to be a pretty, grown woman, but, with her dirty elbows, her crew cut, and her hyper (some would say obnoxious) personality, in many ways she looks and acts more like a boy.
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