The Year of Magical Thinking
The title of this memoir is "The Year of Magical Thinking". This title can refer the ideas that one person can defend off a tragedy, even reverse a reality that they don’t want it to be true, by doing things in a certain way. It’s also giving you a piece of information of the main character Joan Didion, and how in her year she had the worst moments, and how she ignored/thought of them as if they hadn’t happened.
“The Year of Magical Thinking” is a story taking place in 2003, about a woman named Joan Didion whose is married to John Gregory and their daughter has been hospitalized with a so called flu, and put into a medically-induced coma. A little time passed afterward when her husband died from a heart attack. That’s when she found herself dealing alone with her daughter incurable illness and the painful memory of her husband been with her. This book is written after John’s dead but she also talks about when they lived together; and if you analyze what she says you can see that she did everything with her husband, they worked together, sharing and editing each other’s writing but now that he’s gone she feels like she doesn’t have anyone, and is really depressed in most of the book, but the book isn’t all about her husband she also talks about her daughter and how she relapsed and had to be sent back to the hospital. This book is the story of a year of her life full of sadness and poignancy. This book is full honest and makes you feel, by just reading, what she felt thru all that year.
This book is told chronologically through Joan Didion point of view, and it’s all in the present, even though there are many flashbacks which differ of dates and places.
Joan Didion comes to realize that when her husband died she couldn’t live without him, and go to the point where she was scared to do anything different that all the other days; she kept a routine for several months just because of the fear of changing.
This memoir is really descriptive and sentimental in all times. It’s amazing how in this book you can feel everything she’s feeling by just reading her emotional and full expressed lines, you can also learn how to deal with the loss of a loved one throughout this book; even though I wouldn’t consider this memoir one of my favorites since in my point of view it is kind of hard to understand.
LINES WE LOVE:
- It might take six weeks, even the whole summer and fall, but she will play tennis again. She will take pictures again. She will swim out of a riptide. Page: 48-49#
- Your safe, I’m here. Page: 55#
“The Year of Magical Thinking” is a story taking place in 2003, about a woman named Joan Didion whose is married to John Gregory and their daughter has been hospitalized with a so called flu, and put into a medically-induced coma. A little time passed afterward when her husband died from a heart attack. That’s when she found herself dealing alone with her daughter incurable illness and the painful memory of her husband been with her. This book is written after John’s dead but she also talks about when they lived together; and if you analyze what she says you can see that she did everything with her husband, they worked together, sharing and editing each other’s writing but now that he’s gone she feels like she doesn’t have anyone, and is really depressed in most of the book, but the book isn’t all about her husband she also talks about her daughter and how she relapsed and had to be sent back to the hospital. This book is the story of a year of her life full of sadness and poignancy. This book is full honest and makes you feel, by just reading, what she felt thru all that year.
This book is told chronologically through Joan Didion point of view, and it’s all in the present, even though there are many flashbacks which differ of dates and places.
Joan Didion comes to realize that when her husband died she couldn’t live without him, and go to the point where she was scared to do anything different that all the other days; she kept a routine for several months just because of the fear of changing.
This memoir is really descriptive and sentimental in all times. It’s amazing how in this book you can feel everything she’s feeling by just reading her emotional and full expressed lines, you can also learn how to deal with the loss of a loved one throughout this book; even though I wouldn’t consider this memoir one of my favorites since in my point of view it is kind of hard to understand.
LINES WE LOVE:
- It might take six weeks, even the whole summer and fall, but she will play tennis again. She will take pictures again. She will swim out of a riptide. Page: 48-49#
- Your safe, I’m here. Page: 55#
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