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Hi again pals ! Today, I'm going to write an entry on the task given to us. There are 3 questions that I'll be answering. I hope that I'm not too lazy to write my full opinion and perspective about the novel (ngehehe), The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake in this entry haha.

For the first question, we were asked about the tree described by Rose and it's relation to Rose herself and her family.
The trees mentioned in the last chapter is probably about the people in the world and how we cope with our lives. The trees described to be near the shore are like the people with extraordinary abilities like Rose, Joseph and their father. They live by depending on their fate and how hard they try to adapt themselves, there are still obstacles that they have to go through to live normally. Sometimes, fate sets them down and turn their options to live like normal people are limited and can't be solved as a whole. The people further inside from the rim of the island are normal people. These people live easily as they can always adapt themselves as certain problems arrise. So, as a whole, the trees is just an analogy used to describe two contradicting conditions faced by humans.


The second question is how do you interpret the last line of the novel ?
From my own perspective, the last line is about how different is she,Rose, and her brother, Joseph cope with their lives after discovering their special abilities. Joseph can't control himself from emerging into furniture and become one and he doesn't know how to solve and adapt to his condition. Meanwhile for Rose, she is able to find solutions and motivations for her to overcome her problems with her ability and lastly managed to likely live like a normal person. In the last line, she is actually questioning herself what is the difference of being her, who can live by avoiding food that contains terrible feelings and her brother Joseph who can't live as human as he keeps on changing into furniture, when both of them are abnormals, peculiar and different from other humans ?

For the last question, what did I like and dislike about this novel ?

First of all, the thing that I like about this novel is the way the writer lead the story. This is from the direct language and descriptions she wrote to the plots and development of characters in the novel. This novel really shows the reality of the conflicts and problems we face in our lives. As you know, this novel tells a story of a girl's life who has an ability to taste people's feelings in the food she eats, starting from 9 years old until she is in her 20's. I really love how the writer managed to create such piece that kind of reflects our own journey of life and behavior throughout our phase of growing up. The story is not very cliche' and common too. The story is very unique that even though it portrays the story of a family, it still attracted my interest to continue reading it without getting bored. Well, MOST people tend to love reading romance novels instead of something related to family oriented novels because the novels related to relationship in families that I have read so far were very lame and boring and sometimes it made me read only 1/3 of the novel because I couldn't stand reading something so boring !!! The last reason I like this novel is because it taught me how to deal with life and the problems I am facing, faced and will face in the future. It also taught about how to overcome and adapt with my own weaknesses thus, try to be tough and endure the pain whenever something hurts me and make me feel down. I really like the way the writer delivered her message through her writing. The only thing that I dislike about this story is that it is waaaayyyy sssooooo illogical and all this superpower thingy going on along the story. I don't really like reading that kind of story by the way but it is okay for me as long as it has something to do with reality and life.

So that's all for my entry this time. Thanks for spending your time reading my entry ! See yaaaaa ! Byeeeee !