Claudine's house

[mrsmile10]

Hi guys and girls. How are you doing? I've been reading this novel called Claudine's House and so far, I'm having a tough time understanding the content. If someone could so much as to assist me, it would be much appreciated. (If it is not too much by asking to explain briefly what each chapter is about)

:P

[Calidore]

Not just the first couple of chapters to get you started but the entire book? That doesn't sound like having trouble understanding so much as not wanting to write a book report.

[mrsmile10]

I'm sorry, I didn't mention I was reading till around page 17 when i wrote this thread. I'm now at page 27. I know it's not much of a progress because I'm having classes. Maybe I should be more specific as to what the problem is. I have been reading and I don't quite see how these chapters relate or where the story is heading or what the narrator is trying to say in depth in each chapter. Of course, I'm not trying to say it's a bad book.

[dfloyd]

Polly made famous the epithet "A home is not a house."

[mrsmile10]

Polly made famous the epithet "A home is not a house."

ohhh. And here I was thinking that the it was about a child who had a great/relatively great childhood. I guess I was mistaken.

[mrsmile10]

Just putting my thought here to see if any comments on them

<Priest on the Wall> page 29
Why the term? because she was in a sense performing a funeral for her creative thoughts on presbytery and the use of wall symbolized blockage- that she would never go back to thinking that way

Also, does anyone else think Collete was a little bit overly attached to her mom, nay somewhere between securely attached and overly/anxiously attached, or is it just me?