Okaayy ..
i guess it's time for LOST ANGEL's second post after this weak of heaven !! =D
I'll just focus on one part through chapter 4 to 10.
It was mainly about Gertie's unexpected feelings for Hilda, which were not as sisterly as Hilda thought ..
When Gertie realizes that Hilda might leave her if she knew about her feelings , she decides to hide them and just pretend everything was going on normally.
Every time Gerite's illusion that she, Hilda and Ellen were a family bond together grows, it shatters whenever Hilda's husband arrives or is even mentioned .She thinks his arrival is an unwanted intrusion.
She tried to use hilda's weak moments to pretend sympathy taking an advantage of the moment to hold or hug her.
Sometimes she tried to think about how shameful her thoughts were, but then they were uncontrollable.
It seems Hilda's husband at first noticed what Gertie was longing for but when he tried to confront Hilda , she denied everything strongly ,claiming that gertie was treating her like any loyal friend would ,until he stopped
nagging on it and he even apologized for saying so .
The question is , did Hilda's husband really believe that whatever was going on his mind about Gertie was just an imagination
or did he intentionally dismiss his thoughts in order to calm his wife .. ??
And what about the ghost like thing Hilda felt every now and then
was it something related to gertie's weird thoughts and feelings .. ??
i like your summary rawan but what about hilda's awkward feelings which were mentioned throughout the chapters?didn't that grab your attention? do you think that hilda's feelings are tricks created by her thoughts or are they real ones?
ReplyDeleteRawan,what can be the possible reason for Doug to ignore Gertie's behavior towards Hilda, and Hilda who protests against her husband's predictions earlier finally decides to abandon Gertie?
ReplyDeleteactually, i kind of think doug always knew *deep, deep down inside :)* that gertie fancied hilda, but ignored it for two reasons: -he didn’t want to upset hilda and, more importantly, 2- he didn’t want a reason to have ellen and hilda move from the farm. he saw the danger of the bombs as more threatening than gertie’s feelings.. and he knew that hilda could fend gertie off, should gertie try anything. i think that he mentions his worries to hilda not to provoke her to leave, but to stay on the lookout for any weird behavior from gertie
ReplyDeletewell Areej hilda's feelings is what makes me eager to read more .. i think they're just created by her thoughts which proves how much she started thinking seriously about her husband's predictions
ReplyDeleteMrs Shabanna i guess Nour just answered your question
and yeash Nour ,, I like and totally agree with your comment ..
.. =)