Lemon Cake; Fin

Hi everyone! This entry will wrap things up about our blog entries on the Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake. We were assigned to basically give our interpretation on the last part of the novel and give our comments about the novel. Let's just make haste and go straight to the point shall we?

On my opinion, the part where it stated about the old elegant palm type having veracious roots and enormous trunk but it was no match for the steady impact of beaks and thinner dirt and unprotected weather. The tree fell all the way over  and into the ocean depicts the characteristics of Joseph where he always looks steady and seems to be less dependent toward social attention. However after slowly going through the hardships of life alone, his determination to continue to be a part of this world sunk. After he discovered the way to change into things, his weaken will to continue his life becomes the limiting factor to change back into a normal human being. The other part where the novel stated about a tree where the islanders commented upon as a symbol of survival describes herself who also been through hardships in life due to the unique ability of hers. However she did find a way to cope with her power and to live a normal happy life.

The last line of the novel is telling us that her situation is different than her brother's. Her ability is a burden to her in some ways because she could not eat a cooked food normally like any normal people do. However she have a few people that she could turn into whenever she needed them. Her brother in the other hand, is an introvert who pretty much stayed alone. His ability to become into an object is much more of a burden than his sister's ability. When he became a chair, his sense of timeline, sence of hunger or thirst and sense of tiredness are nonexistent. He couldn't feel any of them. That's why he took a very long while to become into a human and became weak every time he changed back into a human again.

What I like the most about this novel is the determination of Rose to try and cope with her ability despite facing other problems in life such as having to know things that she isn't supposed to know before hand as a little girl. All those hardships she faced made her more matured and became stronger day by day, The part what I dislike about the novel is that the story is too linear and lacks the feel of thrill and suspense. I would recommend this to people who's at an older age because I think most people of the young generation don't really like to read this linear type of story.