READING JOURNAL: "The Professor"
Yesterday
I finished “The Professor” by Charlotte Bronte. There were times, early in the
reading, when I was dismayed by the empty-headedness of some of the characters,
and by the seeming tediousness of the story line. However, fortunately for me,
I made a small commitment to stay with the book, and slowly the story started
to blossom, chapter by chapter. Bronte’s writing – her graceful sentence
structure, especially – was elegant almost from start to finish, and soon the
characters starting seeming like people I could study and come to admire. The
descriptions, both of the natural world and of the characters, grew better, it
seemed, as I turned the pages. And her sentence structure, as I said, was so
stylish. I made numerous highlights of sentences containing very pleasing examples
of parallelism. Obviously, I am glad I didn’t give up on this somewhat
forgotten but nonetheless impressive novel.
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