First Impression journals

Thursday, 27 November 2014

First Impression Journal by Deborah Anderson

The novel The Woman In White by Wilkie Collins is a classic, cryptic, fiction indited in the 1860s. Judging on the book's denomination, i was expecting a frighteningly eerie or thriller theme in the very beginning of the novel. Instead, the novel is more of a peculiar love story. The plot is that a man Walter Hartright meets a woman dressed in white and ascertained that she escaped from a  asylum to pass a message along to an inscrutable baronet.  Albeit Hartright avails her to elude without being caught and he never expects to visually perceive her again, somehow he cannot forget about her. In my opinion, Collins made the book very perplexing because he did not make it clear what the characters were doing and why they were doing it. I dislike the novel because it shows lack of suspense. nothing fascinating occurred which made me lose interest immediately. however; Walter accumulates information in the form of letters and journal ingresses  about events that the characters have witnessed unique way. Although Walter utilizes a unique way to indite this novel, i still find it boring. i additionally feel like this book requires patience considering the book is 500 pages long. I believe the novel is only prosperous in giving inscrutable effect but it has lack of suspense. Overall, I believe this novel is one of the boringest books i have ever read. as i read more, i hope that the story will become more engaging as i read further to discover incipient events.

First Impression by Stephanie Wijenathan

 The Woman in White is by Wilkie Collins, published in 1860; it is a Victorian fiction novel. The setting of the book is an asylum in London. When I was reading this book, I was worried at first that the format would be confusing and hard to get into. However, slowly as I started reading the novel I was surprised how easily everything flowed and how quickly the story started. The story is told in a unique format; it is told through a series of letters, journal entries, and testimonies. The novel jumps right into the story without a whole lot of long Victorian wordiness, which for me, was difficult to understand since it is a different format of writing than I am usually use to reading. The novel starts off with the introduction of one of the main characters Walter Hartright.  Hartright meets a young woman dressed all in white late at night on a road back to London. He finds out the woman has escaped from a nearby asylum to be able to pass a message along to a mysterious baronet. Although Hartright helps her to escape without being caught and he never expects to see her again, somehow he cannot forget the ghostly figure. My prediction for the upcoming events in the novel is that Walter Hartsight falls in love with this mysterious woman he cannot find, and goes out searching for her. This is what I predict will happen later on in the novel. In my opinion the tone of this book comes off as a very mysterious vibe. I also feel like unless you've got the patience, stamina, and taste for a mid-Victorian novel you wont enjoy this novel. You may think The Woman In White is terribly overwrought and 500 pages too long. If you like Victorian writing, you'll think this is a well-drawn, balanced novel with characters to root for, characters to despise, a twisting plot that rolls up, and narrated from many different points of view. I am still unsure if I like or dislike this novel, I will have to read more in-depth to grasp a better understanding on my opinion on it since I only read a couple of the first 20 pages so far. But so far this book comes off as quite interesting and very mysterious which makes it more intense as I get deeper towards finishing the end of the book