Movie Time
I'm done. Aubrey's done. Anyone else wanna see a movie soon? When would be good? Beware - the rest of my post totally talks about the ending of the book.
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I should probably start out by apologizing for teasing someone about crying over Charlotte's Web. Sorry. I didn't quite cry over Terabithia, but that's cuz I finished it at work on my lunch break. Before I even started I remembered that the book was sad, but I was surprised by it anyway.
I don't really love the first couple chapters, then I really get into it. Even though it makes me cry. Although part of the crying was because I really empathized with Jess after Leslie died.
"It came into his mind that someone had told him that Leslie was dead. But he knew now that that had been part of the dreadful dream. Leslie could not die any more than he himself could die."
I don't think I ever went through violent denial of losing my dad, but I definitely couldn't believe it was happening. And the regrets - the ones that didn't even make sense - like how I wished I had visited home while he was sick, or how I wished that I had planned to be home for Thanksgiving even though he was dead by then. And how people react at different speeds - Leslie's parents seemed to need Jess to be something he wasn't, to feel something he didn't - and it just doesn't happen that way. I was mad at my mom sometimes cuz she wanted me to come home a lot and "mourn" with my family, but I reacted differently than she thought. I had a lot of grief, but I also was at school, which I know my Dad loved and was proud of. Anyways, don't worry - she and I are pretty good now - it was just hard for her to accept that I could grieve and not be home, and I was really pushing for distance because it helped me to be busy while I missed him so much, so I wasn't there for my family. (If you read this mom - I love you and none of that was meant to be negative.)
But my absolute favorite part of the book is when Jess shared Terabithia with May Belle. I spent so many hours playing with my little brother, even though we were farther apart in age than my sister and I, and we imagined like crazy. Our backyard was the world, the big toy was the pirate ship, we traveled, adventured, fought, and ran around probably looking crazy to anyone who couldn't see our invisible foes. So for me the end of the book is also the beginning of something so wonderful.
Not only that, but the idea of learning the best that someone has to share with you and then passing it on. And learning it from anywhere, even if you had to be friends with a giirrl.
So I pose a question to think about - what kind of people would we be if we could choose the best parts of all the people we know and make them part of ourselves?
Click here for the rest of the post.
I should probably start out by apologizing for teasing someone about crying over Charlotte's Web. Sorry. I didn't quite cry over Terabithia, but that's cuz I finished it at work on my lunch break. Before I even started I remembered that the book was sad, but I was surprised by it anyway.
I don't really love the first couple chapters, then I really get into it. Even though it makes me cry. Although part of the crying was because I really empathized with Jess after Leslie died.
"It came into his mind that someone had told him that Leslie was dead. But he knew now that that had been part of the dreadful dream. Leslie could not die any more than he himself could die."
I don't think I ever went through violent denial of losing my dad, but I definitely couldn't believe it was happening. And the regrets - the ones that didn't even make sense - like how I wished I had visited home while he was sick, or how I wished that I had planned to be home for Thanksgiving even though he was dead by then. And how people react at different speeds - Leslie's parents seemed to need Jess to be something he wasn't, to feel something he didn't - and it just doesn't happen that way. I was mad at my mom sometimes cuz she wanted me to come home a lot and "mourn" with my family, but I reacted differently than she thought. I had a lot of grief, but I also was at school, which I know my Dad loved and was proud of. Anyways, don't worry - she and I are pretty good now - it was just hard for her to accept that I could grieve and not be home, and I was really pushing for distance because it helped me to be busy while I missed him so much, so I wasn't there for my family. (If you read this mom - I love you and none of that was meant to be negative.)
But my absolute favorite part of the book is when Jess shared Terabithia with May Belle. I spent so many hours playing with my little brother, even though we were farther apart in age than my sister and I, and we imagined like crazy. Our backyard was the world, the big toy was the pirate ship, we traveled, adventured, fought, and ran around probably looking crazy to anyone who couldn't see our invisible foes. So for me the end of the book is also the beginning of something so wonderful.
Not only that, but the idea of learning the best that someone has to share with you and then passing it on. And learning it from anywhere, even if you had to be friends with a giirrl.
So I pose a question to think about - what kind of people would we be if we could choose the best parts of all the people we know and make them part of ourselves?
posted by Julie C | 12:57 PM
1 Comments:
julie. what a sweet post. and way too much to comment on. but i will attempt.
i like hearing your experience in comparison with how jess dealt with losing leslie. even though you've shared some of those thoughts before, it was still good to read them a know you a little better on a different level. thank you.
my favorite part was the end when jess shared terabithia with may belle as well. and as for me, i blubbered till the very end of the book. i even blubbered through the end when he's telling may belle that she will be a queen. because that is what leslie did for him. she helped him to see the amazing potential that he had, and he, in turn, chose to do that for may belle.
i don't know if i will write a separate post about the book. i might.
emily is done, i am done and you are done. i just gave the book to lydia, so let's go see it next saturday morning/afternoon? what do you think jules?
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