Check The Weather While You're Reading...

     I just read 9 chapters and the book still bores me. I know that comment is too extreme but I have to be honest, his examples are way too many for me to understand and I don't even know what he's talking about on some of them. I'm more of a "tell it to me directly" guy than hearing all these examples that I don't even know because I never heard of them. Luckily Chapter 10 grabbed my attention. It talks about how rain isn't just rain. Rain isn't just part of a setting; it can also be as a plot device. It can bring characters together. Rain is also a misery factor. "Hardy will always go for making his characters more miserable, and rain has a higher wretchedness quotient than almost any other element of our environment." Rain can make us sick and can also result to death.  Rain can also mean restoration by bring something back to life. Other types of weather can also mean something. For example, rainbow “symbolizes divine promise, peace between heaven and earth.” Rainbows are hard to miss because we don’t see them everyday. Fog symbolizes confusion. You won’t see anything clearly when there’s a fog on your way. Snow have the same meaning as rain, on the other hand it also means different things.  Snow is clean, severe, playful, inviting, dirty, and inhospitable. Hopefully there will be other chapters that will reel me in so I can talk about them. Overall, this chapter taught me to always check the weather while I’m reading.