Monday, April 16, 2007

SMART-Ending- change

* choose one character and describe the change they had undergone from beginning to end

-Change of Kitty Coleman

The character that showed a big difference between beginning and ending was Kitty Coleman, who is the elegant and beautiful woman. At first, she was only a quiet and inactive missus. Although Kitty lived in great house, had handsome husband and cute daughter, she wasn't happy. She got a lot of stress from everywhere(especially from her mother-in-law), but didn't try to get rid of stress. However, the big event occurs! Kitty is in love with Mr.Jackson, a man who is in charge of the cemetry, and the baby between them begins to grow in her. However, she had to lose the baby and gets a grief. In my opinion, losing baby was the reason of her change. Since losing her baby, Kitty changes a lot. Although it was not her intend at first, she met the woman called Caroline Black, a suffaragette. Then, Kitty herself becomes an active and enthausiastic suffaragette, who works for right of women to vote. As she is holding a large meeting in her house and organizing numerous rallies and speeches, she becomes an passionate and active person. Despite the fact that she became to change in good way, I couldn't understand her real intend because of the 'emerald necklace' incident. Although she and her mother-in-law didn't have good relationship, I couldn't understand why Kitty made the suffaragette necklace with emerald that was given by her mother-in-law. At first I only thought as a 'revenge'(?) toward mother-in-law, but when I finished the book, I guessed that it was because she wanted to show her strong passion and pride about working as a suffaragette.
As I mentioned above, Kitty Coleman changed a lot from beginning. In my opinion, the most heartbreaking change was the broken relationship with her daughter Maude, who is undergoing some changes herself. Since Maude still needs help and love from her mother, I was a little bit angry at Kitty just as her husband. But I couldn't stop my tears when she was about to die and think that she was living her whole life for her daughter. In my opinion, Kitty always loved her daughter but didn't know how to express because of the loneliness and sadness which came from losing the baby that was growing inside her.

2 comments:

Bryan Munson said...

Be careful, Ray. You may want to read final submissions outloud so you can try to catch the errors. This one has far too many.
B

Anonymous said...

Well said.