Personal Response to Cold Comfort Farm

Cold nourish kick upstairs By Stella Gibbons What was a principal(prenominal) theme in the falsehood and how send away it be applied to my heart style? Cold Comfort Farm is a clean centred around belatedly orphaned Flora Poste who goes to stay with her cousins living on a farm. I design that a reoccurring theme in the unfermented was shown in the behavior in which Flora got people to look beyond their horizons and imagine a more realistic liveliness-style. Thanks to Floras encouragement and function the characters living at Cold Comfort Farm look beyond their horizons and become much more interesting people.Like aunt Ada ordain, I establish come to realise that I channelise a very(prenominal) routine lifestyle simply occasionally exit Karori and b atomic number 18ly incessantly venturing outside of Wellington. I can admit full here that I am non a enthralling psyche but I am not living a lifestyle which requires as striking a change as flying to capital of France and living the gritty Life deal aunt Ada Doom does after rendering an issue of Vogue. So really this theme didnt provoke whatsoever reaction in me at all other than how I intrust I dont see anything equalwise wicked in the woodshed that would make me live in a bedway for the rest of my life.How did I identify with the protagonist, Flora Poste? Throughout the myth I found myself analyse my attitudes to Floras as she is a virtual(a) and sensible issueish woman completely ready to call for on any medieval, melodramatic family that she feel the need to tidy up. Flora is like a gas pedal she is the baking soda of the hokey-pokey, Flora shakes up retard reactions and causes unusual emotions. I typically find this happening whenever I passport into a room as I normally end up saying something steamy that causes total contr everyplacesy and many shocked expressions.Flora does the uniform thing by suggesting that Adam, a farm hand, uses a scrubbing sail to clean the breakfast dishes or else than a twig. Adam said I dont want a liddle mop wi a handle. Ive used a thorn twig these fifty geezerhood and more, and what was trade good enough then(prenominal) is good enough now. Seeing the logical and matter-of-fact side is something I pay off in common with Flora all the same I do not consider myself quite as wily or manipulative as Flora proves herself to be throughout the novel. But, suggested the cagy FloraIf you had a small-minded mop and could wash the dishes more quickly, you ould have more clip in the aweshed with the dumb beasts. Adam halt his work. This had evidently touch home. While getting changed after Ballet two weeks ago a girl I dance with stated how she didnt read. I was disgust and replied I can see it is cool to be illiterate these age the response What does illiterate mean could only go in an surprise silence from me. I then withalk it upon myself to help her with her homework every Tuesday onward balle t. I think that Flora and I are both sophisticated for our generation and have smallish tolerance for surplus ignorance.What was a fraud used by Gibbons to hold my attention throughout the novel? Stella Gibbons was a poet before she became a novelist with her first publication being a leger of poems The Mountain Beast, and her melodramatic insertions of landscape descriptions are certainty of this. **Dawn crept over the downs like a sinister white fauna followed by the snarling cries of a wind eating its way between the b miss boughs of the thorns. The wind was the enraged voice of this sluggish animal light that was husking the dormers and mullions and scullions of Cold Comfort Farm. Gibbons warns us whenever she starts this by placing a couple of asterixes in front of the paragraph. The contributor is then snatched from this world and back into the sensible up to now cynical views of the young protagonist, Flora Poste. I thought this make the oblige ahead of its time s as it was only written in the mid-thirties when it just wasnt the done thing for women to write comedy. However, sometimes this would trick me and I would have to go back and read the paragraph once more as a beautiful description of rugged landscape would deal to how Graceless the alarms leg fell off.Bizarre occurrences like these made me do something that can only be described as a double take to make sure I had read the portrayal correctly. I couldnt leave the cow-leg incident alone and spent my lying-in-bed-pondering-before-sleep-time speculating over how a cows leg simply falls off. Did I find the novel relevant or interesting to me as a reader? I was highly recommended to read this book by my parents, cunning I like a laugh, they told me it was hilarious and then proved how little they know active my sense of mood.Despite having interesting characters, poetic techniques and a strong theme I found the novel as a consentaneous frustrate. I didnt learn anything of gr eat epiphany significance, and no valuable life lessons, there was no exciting climax but the most disappointing thing was the lack of humour. The only thing I really laughed at being Aunt Ada Doom unable to get agone how she Saw something nasty in the woodshed when she was a little girl, and then pass the rest of her life sulking about it in her bedchamber.Maybe I didnt generalise the humour so much because I am only cardinal and have not experienced enough of the world and its literature to extrapolate the adult humour within the story but I did not react to the novel at all, in fact I thought that the setting was rather dull, and reminded me of a rainy day on a farm only more bleak, the events in the story were unrealistically step on it and happened much too quickly and the perfect solutions to each problem that arose were fantastic and cliche, however I am sure it is a classic for a reason and maybe I need to live a little before I revisit it in a few years time.Person al reaction to Cold Comfort FarmCold Comfort Farm By Stella Gibbons What was a main theme in the novel and how can it be applied to my lifestyle? Cold Comfort Farm is a novel centred around recently orphaned Flora Poste who goes to stay with her cousins living on a farm. I thought that a reoccurring theme in the novel was shown in the way in which Flora got people to look beyond their horizons and imagine a more realistic lifestyle. Thanks to Floras encouragement and manipulation the characters living at Cold Comfort Farm look beyond their horizons and become much more interesting people.Like Aunt Ada Doom, I have come to realise that I lead a very routine lifestyle only occasionally leaving Karori and barely ever venturing outside of Wellington. I can admit right here that I am not a enthralling person but I am not living a lifestyle which requires as dramatic a change as flying to Paris and living the High Life like Aunt Ada Doom does after reading an issue of Vogue. So really thi s theme didnt provoke any reaction in me at all other than how I hope I dont see anything too nasty in the woodshed that would make me live in a bedroom for the rest of my life.How did I identify with the protagonist, Flora Poste? Throughout the novel I found myself comparing my attitudes to Floras as she is a practical and sensible young woman completely ready to take on any medieval, melodramatic family that she feel the need to tidy up. Flora is like a catalyst she is the baking soda of the hokey-pokey, Flora shakes up delayed reactions and causes unusual emotions. I typically find this happening whenever I walk into a room as I normally end up saying something embarrassing that causes total controversy and many shocked expressions.Flora does the same thing by suggesting that Adam, a farm hand, uses a scrubbing brush to clean the breakfast dishes rather than a twig. Adam said I dont want a liddle mop wi a handle. Ive used a thorn twig these fifty years and more, and what was goo d enough then is good enough now. Seeing the logical and practical side is something I have in common with Flora however I do not consider myself quite as cunning or manipulative as Flora proves herself to be throughout the novel. But, suggested the cunning FloraIf you had a little mop and could wash the dishes more quickly, you ould have more time in the cowshed with the dumb beasts. Adam stopped his work. This had evidently struck home. While getting changed after Ballet two weeks ago a girl I dance with stated how she didnt read. I was disgusted and replied I can see it is cool to be illiterate these days the response What does illiterate mean could only result in an astonished silence from me. I then took it upon myself to help her with her homework every Tuesday before ballet. I think that Flora and I are both modern for our times and have little tolerance for unnecessary ignorance.What was a device used by Gibbons to hold my attention throughout the novel? Stella Gibbons w as a poet before she became a novelist with her first publication being a book of poems The Mountain Beast, and her melodramatic insertions of landscape descriptions are proof of this. **Dawn crept over the downs like a sinister white animal followed by the snarling cries of a wind eating its way between the menacing boughs of the thorns. The wind was the furious voice of this sluggish animal light that was baring the dormers and mullions and scullions of Cold Comfort Farm. Gibbons warns us whenever she starts this by placing a couple of asterixes in front of the paragraph. The reader is then snatched from this world and back into the sensible yet cynical views of the young protagonist, Flora Poste. I thought this made the book ahead of its times as it was only written in the 1930s when it just wasnt the done thing for women to write comedy. However, sometimes this would confuse me and I would have to go back and read the paragraph again as a beautiful description of rugged landsca pe would switch to how Graceless the cows leg fell off.Bizarre occurrences like these made me do something that can only be described as a double take to make sure I had read the passage correctly. I couldnt leave the cow-leg incident alone and spent my lying-in-bed-pondering-before-sleep-time speculating over how a cows leg simply falls off. Did I find the novel relevant or interesting to me as a reader? I was highly recommended to read this book by my parents, knowing I like a laugh, they told me it was hilarious and then proved how little they know about my sense of humour.Despite having interesting characters, poetic techniques and a solid theme I found the novel as a whole disappointing. I didnt learn anything of great epiphany significance, and no valuable life lessons, there was no exciting climax but the most disappointing thing was the lack of humour. The only thing I really laughed at being Aunt Ada Doom unable to get past how she Saw something nasty in the woodshed when s he was a little girl, and then spending the rest of her life sulking about it in her bedroom.Maybe I didnt understand the humour so much because I am only fifteen and have not experienced enough of the world and its literature to understand the adult humour within the story but I did not react to the novel at all, in fact I thought that the setting was rather dull, and reminded me of a rainy day on a farm only more bleak, the events in the story were unrealistically rushed and happened much too quickly and the perfect solutions to each problem that arose were idealistic and cliche, however I am sure it is a classic for a reason and maybe I need to live a little before I revisit it in a few years time.