Brit Lit Blog for 9-17-07

David Lurie is a 52 year old man who has been divorced twice and is currently a professor at a local small college. Throughout this portion of the book David is a desperate man for love and sex. He ends up taking one of his students, Melaine Isaacs, out for dinner and tries to charm her. A couple days later David thinks that he needs to end everything with Melaine as quickly as possible so nothing gets any further, but instead he takes her too lunch and they end up having sex.
I think that the characters so far in this book are realistic because it is about someone who is going through real life troubles and is having a though time coping with them. From what I have read the novel might be heading in a weird direction because David Lurie seems like he is doing more harm than good in his life and he shows no signs of being able to get out of them. This novel suggests that people in general have a tough time getting out situations because of bad habits. For example, David Lurie is someone who is desperate for someone to love and just wants anyone, but going back to ways before he was married the first might come back to haunt him. I think this shows that during this time period that people are rushing to much in relationships and they are hurting there future by the actions that they are happening in the present.

Brit Lit Blog for 9-24-07

David and Melaine can’t get enough of each other but after her boyfriend reads an excerpt from her diary all hell break lose. The boyfriend dumps her and she thinks she has no future with everyone and does not want to see him anymore. A couple of days later Melaine does not show up to class which gets David worried that something might have happened. David takes the advice of his lawyer to take classes on Rape Awareness because rumor starts going around the college that him and another student are going out.
I think that David needs to end what ever is going on with Melaine as soon as possible because what ever is going on can and will get worse. There really is no other solution but to end whatever is going on. I think that the theme of the story is really realistic on how something can happen in a relationship no matter what the age is. At this point in the story the novel is heading into a downward direction because every time David does something with Melaine it only makes matters worse. From what I have read so far David will most likely not stop talking to Melaine which could ruin his life. I think that this tells us that people can do a lot of things wrong in any type of relationship.

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