Hello folks! It's me again. This time I would like to make a review about a
book I have read since these last two days. I will only review the first
chapter of Demian for now. XOXO enjoy!
As I told you guys in the previous post that this book is about a
young Emil Sinclair who was finding his true self.
#Chapter 1 : Two Worlds/ Two Realms
In the first chapter, it was
told that Emil Sinclair was a ten years old boy and going to the Latin school, who
lived with a very well family. He told that there are two realms, two worlds of
which he was aware at that time, light and darkness, or day and night. The
realm of day was good at everything, straight and Christian, just like his
family, a very well-mannered, educated, beautiful and harmonious. However, he
didn’t feel that he belonged to that kind of family. Sometimes, he even felt
that he belonged to a dark or night realm, where all of the scandalous rumors,
alcoholics, harassments, murders, and suicides were happening there. He was
torn between those two worlds.
In one afternoon, Sinclair and
his friends went off from school. He and his two friends from neighborhood were
exploring. Then a big boy, tailor’s son, rowdy and strong, thirteen years old,
Franz Kromer, came to them. He was from a dark family, where his father was a
drinker and his family had a bad reputation. Sinclair was afraid of him. He was
affected to a grown up man, the way he talked, the way he walked. He led
Sinclair and his friend. They sat and began the conversation. They started
bragging and complimenting themselves on all kinds of schoolboy heroics and
pranks they had pulled off, but not with Sinclair. He kept quiet. But then,
pressured by the boys’ chatter, he invented an intricate story when he was
having stolen a sack of apples from an orchard near the mill. Kromer then
badgered, making him swear to God that he told a true story. As the boys were
dispersing, Kromer pulled Sinclair aside. Kromer told Sinclair that he had
known about the apple robbery for quite a while and, further, that the owner of
the orchard had offered a reward of two marks to anyone who could tell him who
stole the apples. Kromer then told Sinclair that he needed the money and of
course would rather chose the money than Sinclair. Kromer started threatening
Sinclair to bring two marks on the following day. They agreed to meet in the
market after school.
Sinclair returned home a
changed boy. He chastised himself for having been so influenced by Kromer and
was certain that this act of deception would lead him to innumerably further
misdeeds. He felt like an outsider even in his own home. He felt guilty,
whether he should confess to his father or not. But he decided not to tell his
father about this. But then, his father chastised him for having his muddy
shoes and this made Sinclair to fulfill his need to feel punished. At the same
time, this was where he first came to see himself as better than his father,
because he was virtually a hardened criminal, and his father was scolding him
for only a pair of muddy boots.
Sinclair was ill the next day
and afforded the opportunity to stay home in the morning. He knew he must meet Kromer
at eleven, he decided to crack open a piggy bank his mother kept for him. He
discovered in it sixty five pfennigs and decided to bring these to Kromer, with
the reason that it would be better than showing up with nothing. Kromer angrily
accepted the payment and told Sinclair that he would wait for the remaining
mark and thirty five pfennigs. In the following weeks, Sinclair wasn’t unable
to pay his debt was forced to perform humiliating tasks for Kromer.
The story doesn't end here everyone! Wait for the next chapters next week! xoxo ppyong!
Interesting book to read, because there are some stories that I still want to know.
ReplyDeletebooks that present quite interesting stories that make readers want to know more about the stories that have been presented. Keep writing ^_^
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