Fortunate Yet Misfortunate -Sydney Snow
Honesty hour: This book is way better than the other one!
Now, back to The Consolation of Philosophy. The way this book is set up keeps things interesting. I love the way it switches between verse and poems. And I know I'm not the only one who reads the two in different tones. I also very much appreciate the footnotes on the bottom of the page so I don't have to google every little thing I don't understand.
Lets get to the actual content of the book. The opening immediately caught my attention. The Lady of Philosophy seems like a very strong female presence. In Book One, she stands up to men who want these women, who she compares to Sirens, to basically make them feel good and impair their vision (or at least thats what I took from it). Book One also goes into the narrator being wrongly accused of a crime he didn't commit. I mean who doesn't like a good story like that? It keeps you interested. He goes on to say that if he were present in the place he was being accused "a sentence would be passed against" him after he confessed or been proven guilty. But, unfortunately for him, he is five hundred miles away and cannot defend himself. He states that "without defense or the opportunity to say a word, I am sentenced to death without and condemned for favoring the Senate too much." He lives in such a corrupt and unjust society. Thankfully things are better today, although their is still a lot of corruption that still takes place. I will never know how people can do people wrong and the system wrong like that. I can't even take someone's pen without feeling bad about it.
Now Book Two gets even more interesting. We are now looking at the topic of Fortune. In this book, Fortune switched up on people. She just up and leaves people, which is causing our speaker pain and misery. The Lady of Philosophy then explains to my man that he can't take what Fortune does personally. Fortune had given him so much in his life, and now she just goes away. Fortune isn't something that we should expect. Yes, sometimes we get fortunate enough to get certain things, but that shouldn't define our happiness--which is the problem our protagonist is facing. He thinks that the temporary happiness he is getting from Fortune is the only happiness he can get, but The Lady proves him wrong. We shouldn't focus on the temporary pleasures and things we receive from "Fortune," we should focus on the permanent things, like God and His love for us all.
P.S. I commented on Hannah's and Cade's post.
Now, back to The Consolation of Philosophy. The way this book is set up keeps things interesting. I love the way it switches between verse and poems. And I know I'm not the only one who reads the two in different tones. I also very much appreciate the footnotes on the bottom of the page so I don't have to google every little thing I don't understand.
Lets get to the actual content of the book. The opening immediately caught my attention. The Lady of Philosophy seems like a very strong female presence. In Book One, she stands up to men who want these women, who she compares to Sirens, to basically make them feel good and impair their vision (or at least thats what I took from it). Book One also goes into the narrator being wrongly accused of a crime he didn't commit. I mean who doesn't like a good story like that? It keeps you interested. He goes on to say that if he were present in the place he was being accused "a sentence would be passed against" him after he confessed or been proven guilty. But, unfortunately for him, he is five hundred miles away and cannot defend himself. He states that "without defense or the opportunity to say a word, I am sentenced to death without and condemned for favoring the Senate too much." He lives in such a corrupt and unjust society. Thankfully things are better today, although their is still a lot of corruption that still takes place. I will never know how people can do people wrong and the system wrong like that. I can't even take someone's pen without feeling bad about it.
Now Book Two gets even more interesting. We are now looking at the topic of Fortune. In this book, Fortune switched up on people. She just up and leaves people, which is causing our speaker pain and misery. The Lady of Philosophy then explains to my man that he can't take what Fortune does personally. Fortune had given him so much in his life, and now she just goes away. Fortune isn't something that we should expect. Yes, sometimes we get fortunate enough to get certain things, but that shouldn't define our happiness--which is the problem our protagonist is facing. He thinks that the temporary happiness he is getting from Fortune is the only happiness he can get, but The Lady proves him wrong. We shouldn't focus on the temporary pleasures and things we receive from "Fortune," we should focus on the permanent things, like God and His love for us all.
P.S. I commented on Hannah's and Cade's post.
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