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A Painting as Talisman, as Enduring as Loved Ones Are Not
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Sign up. Branch: master. Find file Copy path. Cannot retrieve contributors at this time. Raw Blame History. Chapman said it was like Catcher in the Rye but better. Catcher in the Rye is considered a very good book, so the Goldfinch is probably spectacular. I also thought I might benefit from reading a coming of age novel, being on the verge of becoming an adult. Today is my seventeenth birthday. Mostly I read web articles about programming and physics.
I am expecting the Goldfinch to be a bit lighter. She keeps notebooks where she writes down ideas that come up in her stories. She first gained inspiration for the novel during a trip to Amsterdam in She says that she wrote much of the Goldfinch in the New York Public Library, writing with pen on paper. The "Dickensian" feel of the Goldfinch comes from Tart's childhood in Grenada. She said the book started as a "mood" when she visited Amsterdam, and it darkened after the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyans.
She was haunted that people would destroy art and relics of our human history on purpose. This is a theme of the Goldfinch novel. Tartt said that she knew even before she saw the original that she wanted to include the Goldfinch painting in her novel. What tied the two cities together was art. She says that writing about the subject of art was not a conscious desicion. He is a New Yorker. He was very fond of his mother and describes how beautiful she was in face and character. He speaks of her as if he was in love with her.
He blames himself for her death. So far, the book is full of imagery and poetic language, and it has a melancholy tone. He describes the strangeness of being surrounded by the Dutch language and being in a foreign country, but he seems to be calm about it.
It is clear that the narrator feels confined in the apartment as he says "Chaotic room-service trays; too many cigarettes; lukewarm vodka from duty free. During those restless, shut-up days, I got to know every inch of the room as a prisoner comes to know his cell.
The tone is very different from Holden Caulfield's as it is much less abrasive and more mature. The age of the narrator is unclear, but I would say that it is awfully elaborate and sophisticated for a teenager. This book is much different from stories I usually read, since it has a softer feeling.
But it is only the first few pages. I am sure it will pick up. She explains her favorite pieces to him. The narrator catches sight of a girl and an old man, and he is strangely drawn to her. When Theo's mother leaves to see The Anatomy Lesson again, a bomb goes off.
He wakes up in the rubble next to the old man. The old man dies. He cannot find his mother and he tries to convince himself that she made her way home. One of the main themes that comes up in the passage that I read is time.
The mother had the passage of time in her mind. Theo has limited time to spend with his mother before she dies. He hopes to waste time in the museum to skip the parent meeting at his school. He mentions how some memories seem stuck in time and wonders if that is the case with his brief experience with the red headed girl. One thing that I have noticed is that Theo uses many analogies and metaphors when he speaks.
For example he says that he was like "like a servant boy in a story" when he was helping the old man after the bombing. I can relate to this because often events remind me of other things from my own life, or movies and books that I've seen. He cannot find his mother, and calls emergency services to find out where his mother is and whether or not she is OK.
There is no available information. He waits awhile, and he gets a call that says that there is an emergency and asks where his father is. He lies and says that his father went out.
Some time later, two social workers go to his apartment. I like how in the story the narrator describes things in deep detail and even mentions things that do not seem to matter. I think this is an honest way of showing how one is thinking and feeling, because usually we think and feel in a pretty messy way.
The part when Theo lies about where his father is, is a good moment to show character traits. It is clear that Theo in not trusting towards adults and authority figures, and that is reinforced with his misbehavior at school. He probably feels this way because of his hard life growing up with a neglectful father. I think it is interesting how he tells the seemingly unrelated story of how his father left to "start a new life".
This foreshadows the end of the chapter when the social workers show up at his door and he knew that "life as [he] knew it was over. Theo requests to stay with his friend, Andy Barbour and his family. They are kind to him and protect him from unneccasary questioning. Theo return to school and tries to go back to normal. At school, two investigators ask him about what he witnessed in the crime scene. He is worried because he has stolen the Goldfinch painting.
One Sunday, Theo has a flashback of the sentence "Hobart and Blackwell. Ring the bell" that the old man had said before. He finds those names in the White Pages. With Andy's encouragement he walks over to Hobart and Blackwell's building. A man named Hobie opens the door. A thing I have noticed in this chapter is the class difference between Theo and Andy's family.
Theo describes there house has "opulent" and having a servant for everything. Although the Barbours are wealthy, money concious, and snobbish people, especially Mr. Barbour who likes to "go sailing" and reads the "financial times", they are also kind to Theo, treating him as their own child and looking after him.
Andy is also a bit of a foil for Theo's character. While Theo is unscholarly and raised to be a bit tough, Andy is a rich kid who seems to be very talented and focused academically.
Theo Visits pippa a few times and gets kissed by her until her Aunt Margaret moves her to Texas. At the end of the chapter, Theo's father and his girlfriend Xandra come to take him back with them to Las Vegas. When they visit Theo's mother's apartment, he gives the Goldfinch painting to the doormen for safe keeping. In this chapter, I noticed that the author uses a lot of figurative language which adds to the emotional experience of reading the book.
For example after Theo kisses Pippa and learns that she is leaving to go to Texas he describes his feelings as "my head in the rainclouds, my heart in the sky.
Theo's relationship to Pippa is strangely close, considering how well they know each other. She is one of the only people besides Hobie that he willing speaks to about his mother. I think it is interesting how similar the name "Pippa" is to "Pippy Longstocking". The two characters are similar in that they are both red-headed and orphaned. Theo bonds with characters in this chapter because of similar life experiences. Both Theo and Hobie came from not wealthy backgrounds and had abusive fathers.
Pippa and Theo both experienced loss of a parental figure, and they both are not certain where they are going or who will take care of them. This book is getting interesting. Chapman said the book picks up pace after this chapter. I'm looking forward to it. Boris drinks often Theo picks up this habit too. Boris and Theo become inseparable and engage in shoplifting, smoking, and drinking.
Boris stays over often at Theo's father's house. Boris claims that it means moon. Theo recalls the time his mother told him to look at the moon when he is homesick, because the moon is the same everywhere.
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The Goldfinch is a American film drama directed by John Crowley , written by Peter Straughan , and adapted from the novel of the same name by Donna Tartt. The film stars Ansel Elgort , who plays a young man named Theodore Decker whose life is transformed after his mother dies in a terrorist bombing at a museum. Following this event, an older man convinces him to take a famous painting called The Goldfinch from the museum. Film rights to the novel were sold to Warner Bros. Two years later, Crowley was hired to direct the film adaptation, and Elgort was selected to portray the lead role of Theodore Decker.
