Lolita was probably the weirdest book I have ever read. Never before had I read a book where someone had been so open about fantasizing about little girls. When I was interested in the book it was referenced as a tragic comedy, I never expected how it ended up. The book was full of twists and turns and I was defiantly always surprised with what happened next. The book started out with a man in love with this young girl but then she died and he got married to try and get rid of his love for young girls. When his marriage failed to fulfill the purpose he had intended, he ended up being in love with young girls again. He ended up at a cottage over the summer and a young girl and her mother living there. Throughout the summer he fell in love with this girl, Lolita. Suddenly her mother decided she was going to go to summer camp for the remainder of the summer. Humbert was heart broken when he found this out because he would be gone by the time she returned from summer camp. Humbert decided in order to remain close to Lolita he would marry her mother, who he cannot stand. When his new wife finds his journal about how he is obsessing about Lolita she was furious and in her tantrum got hit by a car while she was fleeing from the house. Humbert drove to the summer camp to explain to Lolita what tragedy had occurred. When he arrived he took her to a hotel to explain what happened and he claimed she seduced him. After they left the hotel they traveled the country for a year they eventually settled down where he got a teaching job and she started to attend school. Humbert was afraid people are stalking them and that she was being unfaithful to her. Lolita became very ill and Humbert took her to the hospital where she fled with another man. By the end of the story Lolita was left pregnant without a man, and Humbert heart broken in jail.
This story was really crazy for me to read. Lolita started off weird and ended with my mind spinning in circles. I am not sure if I would recommend it to anyone, because it was a little disturbing. The book really helped to identify literature for me. There were a lot of words that I was not familure with and the author defiantly had a specific purpose with everything he wrote.
Oh my!!! This story sounds extremely twisted! I would probably feel weird too, reading about a sick obsession with little girls.
ReplyDeletethat story sounds wild! I kind of want to read it now. I wonder what he was trying to say with the plot. it sounds like it rambles a little, and that really sounds like it would add to the feeling of the book and the subject material. this makes me think of the play "the boys next door". its about this group home for mentally handicapped men and the social worker that's in charge of them. there's this point in the story where one of the men wants to have his girl friend over and the social worker is considering it and talking it out to the audience. he makes the interesting point that every other sexual perversion is practically celebrated, but for some reason sex between the mentally handicapped is taboo. i think this is coming from the same place. its a squeamish subject, but why do we shy away from it? why do we have such an impulse to disassociate ourselves with it?
ReplyDeletewow what.. That book sounds crazy, but good job of sticking with it.
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