Madow's Remembrance

Improved Essays
I saw Remembrance free on Kindle, and I was awestruck on how beautiful its cover and intriguing the blurb was. That pique my curiosity into reading it. I wasn't really expecting anything on this book, so I was honestly surprised with just how beautiful the story is on the inside. Remembrance wasn't something mind-blowing or life-changing, but I found reading it addicting and has kept my interest throughout the end. It has saved me from my reading slump (hallelujah!), and that was really an A for me.

Michelle Madow's writing was really pleasant. I think that the story was studied well, so the plot was able to flow nicely. Clearly, the story proved that Madow made a prominent effort in researching about reincarnation. The fusion of the worlds of past and present harmonized well and was
…show more content…
Elizabeth, the main character, is pleasant, good-natured and easy to relate to. She is this flirty, quirky, smart, teenage girl but not too much of any extreme in a sense that you would feel irritated and annoyed. Drew is a strikingly gorgeous man, sweet and endearing. Any typical teenage girl would swoon and become infatuated with him.

The relationship between Lizzie and Drew was exceptional. The love they have for each other was beautiful and bizarre. It was crazy that while reading this book, I found myself realizing that sometimes ignoring how you feel towards the one you truly love is harder and painful than just letting love work between the two of you even if the circumstances are difficult.

Remembrance had all the formulas for a swoon-worthy romance. It wasn't overdone, and it had just the right amount, texture, and awesomeness. It would give the readers almost anything they want in a mushy romance, while still making it a remarkable and refreshing read. Remembrance has shown that anyone may get a second chance to make things better than before, to mend heartaches and previous blunders, and to become better than what you were in the

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Journal 1: Marie-Laure and Walter Pfenning are relatively close in age, and are on opposite ends of the nazi war. The story tells the story from both perspectives, from two children from the same the same town which makes this an interesting read. Werner reminds me of my sister because I would remember she was obviously more literate and she could figure out problems or come up with ideas faster than I could, and I, like Werner’s brothers, I would just play along and ask lots of naive questions. After reading the chapter where there is a flashback to Werner's childhood, when he is eight, I automatically compared him to the kids I babysit, whatever they hear, or see, they think is true and don't question it because they don’t have the knowledge to. Marie-Laure is like a loyal colonel , she gets knocked down, quite literally, but also figuratively life knocks Marie-Laure down; yet she never backs down from a challenge.…

    • 821 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    War is stressful, it is traumatic, but at the same time fun and a bonding experience. In the novel The Things They Carried, the writer tells us about the memories of camaraderie between a platoon of young soldiers. “Rat Kiley made up a rhyme that caught on, and we’d all be chanting it together: step out of line, hit a mine; follow the dink, you’re in the pink” (32). Something as catchy as a song is remembered forever. Though, the ugly side of any war can have its lasting effects.…

    • 756 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    When reading The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien there were many different things that can be learned. Being involved in a war such as Vietnam required having many different traits as a person. In order to be properly prepared to endure something as traumatic as war, the traits needed are, courageousness, faithful, insightful, and open-mindedness. Each of these traits are essential to successfully entering this type of position. Being in the military, air force, or coast guard takes a lot, and this task can only be taken on by certain people.…

    • 442 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “War does not determine who is right- only who is left,” is a quote by Bertrand Russell. This spectrum expresses the casualties of war. In other words, Russell means war is used as an outlet to define a “winner”, or in this case, someone who is right. The veiled truth is that there are no true winners of war when comparing the damage created and the lives lost. Looking at war through that perspective, John F. Kennedy, among others, also agreed.…

    • 1616 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “It wasn’t a war story. It was a love story.” (81) Tim O’Brien may have only used this line to refer to his untrue story about Curt Lemon’s death, but in reality, these two simple sentences can be applied to his entire novel, The Things They Carried. The novel showcases many of the essential character components of that of a typical “love story”, making the novel a perfect example of a love story. Linda acts as the love interest who will never be with the hero because of a difficult circumstance, or in this case, her brain tumor that ultimately brings about her untimely death.…

    • 1043 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    You sit down to read a book to let your imagination go and you realize that the story you are reading is bringing back memories instead. Every story has different impressions on each individual reader depending on the reader’s experiences. In reading Sherman Alexie’s fictional memoir War Dances it brought back memories, anxieties, and disappointments that created mixed emotions within me. A part in the story that brought back a memory is when Alexie describes a scene between the narrator and his Native American father.…

    • 732 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    During the nineteen twenties, America experienced an unprecedented period of spending and wealth. This period of time was also one which gave us many literary classics including The Great Gatsby and also A Rose for Emily. These two stories while very different offer a glimpse into the mindset created during that time. Within the stories is an interesting use of characterization, metaphors, and setting. These simple literary devices create a deep and complex world which we continue to look back on even to this day.…

    • 2053 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The age of Feuilletons is not ongoing today. Books that teach about culture have been written since 1950 have brought forth much about the society in which we live in and how it changes. Novels for all age groups such as If you Give a Mouse a Cookie, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Things They Carried, Invisible Man, and Buddha in the Attic justify that we do not live in an age of Feuilletons. Many novels since then have discussed the flaws of society, history, and moral conflicts that are still prevalent today and will be everlasting to the year 2075.…

    • 1170 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Crane Wife Essay

    • 459 Words
    • 2 Pages

    The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness is a story that revolves around a man, his daughter, and a strange woman who comes into their lives. The story begins with a chapter about George Duncan, a very generous man in his late forties who never asks for anything in return for his help. George Duncan comes face to face with a crane (a large bird) who has been pierced by an arrow. Being the generous and considerate man he is, George decides to help this poor bird and thus the story begins. The Crane Wife explores themes of truth, love, and sacrifice and it is a wonderful take one the original japanese folk tale.…

    • 459 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The novel Shatter Me written by Tahereh Mafi is foremost one of the best books that I have ever read in my existence. This amazing novel was really unpredictable as everything happened like a rollercoaster ride. However, it did have some drops throughout the book that I did not find amusing. The three main things that I personally adored about this novel was the idea, characters, and writing style. I really liked the idea of this novel as it was really eventful.…

    • 1328 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Psychology is prevalent in everything we do, how we grow, and how we act. It’s the basis for how we think and how our body develops. However, it is also very easy to see psychological concepts in other people in our everyday life as well as in fictional works like TV shows, books, or movies. In Nicholas Spark’s movie The Notebook, based off his book, many psychological principles are demonstrated and easily picked up by those with psychological knowledge. Young high schoolers Noah, a millworker, and Allie, a rich girl, fall in love quickly one summer despite Allie’s parent’s disapproval.…

    • 1559 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Author and Vietnam War veteran, Tim O’Brien, in his fictional novel “The Things They Carried” ties together his real experience from being in the Vietnam War with a fictional twist on all his stories throughout the novel. The stories complexity allows O’Brien to emphasizes the difference between “storytelling truth” versus “happening truth”. O’Brien uses rhetoric devices such as repetition and metaphors and diction to highlight the effect storytelling has on a reader’s emotions such as grief. O’Brien also emphasizes the fact that stories allow for the diseased to keep living through their own chronicle memories, which gives his novel a purpose: to aid readers through their own grief by sharing the stories of these Vietnam war soldiers. In…

    • 1074 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    What happens to us after we die? In the book Elsewhere a novel written by Gabrielle Zevin a girl named Lizzie has been killed in a hit and run accident after that her life's changes completely. Shes now has to let go of her old life and come to terms with her own DEATH.. Betty is Lizzie’s maternal grandmother who died due to breast cancer. Zooey is Lizzie’s best friend.…

    • 1652 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    “Over 20 years, more than 58,000 Americans were killed in Vietnam and more than 150,000 wounded, not to mention the emotional toll the war took on American culture.” (Blake 1 ) In Tim O’Brien’s novel “The Things They Carried” death was a daily occurrence, on both the American and the Vietnamese side. O’Brien writes about the function of memory, traditions of war literature and the difference between Tim as a soldier and Tim as a writer. Tim O 'Brien 's novel “The Things They Carried” is written in multiple points of views all which are scattered kind of like the function of memory, no one remembers their whole life story perfectly.…

    • 1162 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I could feel the connectedness of the characters in every unfolding event throughout the story and how all of them were affected by the choices Chris made in his reckless, foreboding odysseys. The author reveal the story with great details and even stated the spoken words of the characters. This in return, made me feel the weight of every sentence and how the people that were involved must have felt like knowing that they could not help Chris in his last dying moments. Near the end of the story, I was imagining how the people that love Chris all their lives or just for the short moments with him reacted when they were struck by the shear devastating news of Chris’s death. I suppose the author have cleverly written the story to the point that I could relate in a personal level to the characters in the…

    • 1029 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays