Fernand Vs. Unabridged Versions

A pro for the unabridged version is that it has a lot of really good detail of the characters features. Fernand was described as “a tall young man of twenty or two and twenty, who was looking at [Mercedes] with an air in which vexation and uneasiness was mingled” (18). This is a really good description of Fernand, the author does a good job of painting a picture, and this changes how the reader pictures Fernand for the rest of the book. They also talked about how much Fernand loved Mercedes; this was not done in the abridged version. He said that for each tear that he saw on Mercedes face, he would have shed his heart’s blood. The book leaves little to the imagination, and in some cases that is a really big pro to the unabridged version, but …show more content…
Another pro for the abridged version is that it does not lose a lot of the descriptive parts in the book. It doesn’t have some that I would have liked, but it does a good job of taking the really good parts of the book, and condensing them. The abridged version describes as “the two lovers went on their way, as blissful as two souls rising up to heaven” (17). This was not in the unabridged version, and it shows how the book has a lot of the big emotion that were written in a sentence. This one sentence was able to foreshadow the pain that was to come in Edmonds life and yet still kept the mystery a secret. As you may have been able to guess from the paragraph, I like the abridged version more than the unabridged; it has a lot of mystery that was not in the unabridged version. The abridged version was “short and sweet” while the unabridged lead the reader on, not allowing a lot of space for creative thinking. I did like how it had more detail, but I think that it had too much. Books do not always have to be lengthy and full of detail; sometimes leaving things to the reader's imagination is the best way to