Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Maud Martha
This train of thought is left over from my response paper. The use of color in the text immediatly grabbed my attention not only because of Martha's awarness of her color, but also because the color in the novel were really the only parts that stuck with me when I closed the book. Those few bits of color stood out more than any of the ordinary actions of the characters. It seemed as those the colors were the reality more than the people...and perhaps to Martha they were. For her color defined her life to be different from even that of her sister. Any other thoughts on this significance or the poetic approach to this novel?
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I agree that the mentions of color seem poetic. It's the beauty of the ordinary--the yellow dandelions, the white snowball bush, the apples in the green bowl--and the comfort derived from them. Even the mention of the gray smells and sounds of the apartment is descriptive of how it's so much different from the colorful nature of the flowers and trees by the house she grew up in. I liked how Maud used nature to describe her feelings and thoughts.
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