Larsen

i am not a fan of this book.

contrary to the other texts that we have read for this course, this one seems completely depressing and unsympathetic. helga so blatantly criticizes those around her, when she too is separated from the majority of society being of mixed race.  who is she to contradict in her situation? lets refer to blacks as “jungle creatures” and hate every city that we are graciously able to encounter. i thought that larsens lack of intricate imagery and awkward sentencing made the novel extremely hard to read.  when the writer is not engaged with the main character is becomes extremely difficult to connect to the text. this is what bothered me the most.  “She had ruined her life, made it impossible ever again to do the things that she wanted, have the things that she loved, mingle with the people she liked. She had been a fool”  Give me something to work with. Please