Well, as explained in my last post, I am currently eighty-four pages into my book. Basically, (as the title indicates) the main character, Naomi, is a junior in high school suffering from amnesia after a spill down some school steps. Once treated in the hospital, Naomi discovers she can remember nothing from the last four years of her life- not her boyfriend, her best friend, or her parent's divorce. Naomi feels incredibly confused, lonely, and fatigued. She begins to reevaluate her life, questioning some of the decisions she has made in the past four years and why she made them. Such as why she began dating a huge jock, why she spent over seven hundred and twenty hours a school year working on the yearbook commitee, or why she had wanted to drop her Advanced Photography class before her bout of amnesia since she likes it so much now. I found two things I wanted to share here that I found entertaining as I read. First, of all, Naomi takes a french class in school, and I have spoken the french language since what feels like forever. When Naomi returns to school from her accident, some of her teachers are more understanding than others- during her french class, she finds that each student is given a french name for the class to use in lieu of their first english name. I liked this because we do the same thing in my french class as well; therefore I am know to my teacher as Isabelle, and accidentally find myself writing the name on papers for other classes besides french at times! Here is an excerpt:
"One thing that had never been in question was my name. 'Sorry,' I said, 'My name is-'
'En francais? Je m'appelle...'
'Je m'appelle Naomi. Uh... Non, Nadine. Nadine, non.'
'Ici, nous employons les noms francais, Nadine.'
'Oui,' I said. Fine, if she wanted to call me Nadine, whatever. It sounded like the name of a comment dit-on? French prostitute, but whatever."
I am also skilled in the use of comment dit-on? which was used here and is translated into how do you say? Well, maybe you did not find that as fascinting as moi, but now were moving to the part that I found even more fascinating than the latter! Again, on my previous post I mentioned the want to read Furuba (aka Fruits Basket) after finishing this book. Well, a big issue from Fruits Basket is the being able to keep your memories, no matter how painful, and grow from them. (I cannot go on to explain the meaning behind all this- my post is already insanely long, and I am begining to wonder if my teacher even reads the whole thing! However, you should just understand that some of the characters from Furuba decided to get their memories surpressed.) In Memoirs of a teenage Amnesiac, Naomi has a conversation with the mysterious character James about forgetting awful memories. James is a new boy at her school who found Naomi unconsious after her fall. On page eighty-two, James says to Naomi, " 'Arn't there things you'd rather forget?' ". Naomi disagrees, and so do I. No matter how hard life becomes, I want to remember my stuggles, and someday, I would hope to look back and treasure each as a precious memory.
"One thing that had never been in question was my name. 'Sorry,' I said, 'My name is-'
'En francais? Je m'appelle...'
'Je m'appelle Naomi. Uh... Non, Nadine. Nadine, non.'
'Ici, nous employons les noms francais, Nadine.'
'Oui,' I said. Fine, if she wanted to call me Nadine, whatever. It sounded like the name of a comment dit-on? French prostitute, but whatever."
I am also skilled in the use of comment dit-on? which was used here and is translated into how do you say? Well, maybe you did not find that as fascinting as moi, but now were moving to the part that I found even more fascinating than the latter! Again, on my previous post I mentioned the want to read Furuba (aka Fruits Basket) after finishing this book. Well, a big issue from Fruits Basket is the being able to keep your memories, no matter how painful, and grow from them. (I cannot go on to explain the meaning behind all this- my post is already insanely long, and I am begining to wonder if my teacher even reads the whole thing! However, you should just understand that some of the characters from Furuba decided to get their memories surpressed.) In Memoirs of a teenage Amnesiac, Naomi has a conversation with the mysterious character James about forgetting awful memories. James is a new boy at her school who found Naomi unconsious after her fall. On page eighty-two, James says to Naomi, " 'Arn't there things you'd rather forget?' ". Naomi disagrees, and so do I. No matter how hard life becomes, I want to remember my stuggles, and someday, I would hope to look back and treasure each as a precious memory.
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