Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Beauty

Julie says, "Beauty is always freakish." (p. 217)

For me, this foreshadowed her acceptance of Cal's uniqueness. Do you think this is a view of beauty the narrator shares?
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3 comments:

Erin said...

Interesting question. I think maybe he enjoys uniqueness as a form of beauty in itself.

I loved Cal's descriptions of himself, the way he looked at various points in his life. I loved how he described himself as a "severe, aquiline-nosed, Roman-coinish person."

3:46 PM, January 23, 2008
kc said...

Yes! And in another place he describes himself as a Musketeer.

I don't have the book with me, but on the page after Julie says beauty is freakish, Cal talks about how he looked as a baby — the awkward beauty of all these parts that didn't seem to fit, how his face was a little off, but how the sum of those uneven parts produced an intriguing whole.

And the Object's beauty was sort of unconventional, and he was drawn to that.

He seemed to have a gift for appreciating the way people's surface interacted with their depths — and how the two shaped each other.

6:57 PM, January 23, 2008
Erin said...

That's an excellent way to put it. I thought his physical descriptions of people were very well-done, very vivid.

7:51 PM, January 23, 2008

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