tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7102067376746188002.post149253531380441400..comments2024-03-23T02:45:17.058-04:00Comments on Tales of Goldstone Wood: Read-along: Chapter 32Anne Elisabeth Stenglhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09462605949792523331noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7102067376746188002.post-6217141810866895432013-01-08T00:01:23.477-05:002013-01-08T00:01:23.477-05:002. I think that Felix should have waited. Hopefull...2. I think that Felix should have waited. Hopefully he would not be required to stay there forever due to the poison. But he should have free choice to leave I guess. I don't know.Courtneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09758194980707040418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7102067376746188002.post-45831764259117705322013-01-05T16:33:01.428-05:002013-01-05T16:33:01.428-05:001. Felix might have stayed and healed just a littl...1. Felix might have stayed and healed just a little longer, but I do think that Imraldera was right to let him go. <br /><br />Mollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14814840750991556084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7102067376746188002.post-18576447869943969712013-01-04T12:07:41.527-05:002013-01-04T12:07:41.527-05:001. Even if Felix was wrong to leave the Haven, he ...1. Even if Felix was wrong to leave the Haven, he had the right reason. In a way yes, Imraldera was right to let him go.<br /><br />2. Una is ashamed of her dragon form. I can see more clearly Una representing fallen humanity. Yes, I think Una's wish was for both not to see.<br /><br />3. "What's that look for?" Felix asked, watching her.<br />"What look?" She blinked and turned back to him.<br />"That faraway, no-longer-paying-attention-to-what-you're-doing look. Like you were suddenly a thousand miles away."<br />"No, no!" Imraldera laughed. "I am very present."<br />"Good, because you've got a knife in your hand." (p. 308)<br /><br />CaitlynAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7102067376746188002.post-55017338961420239882013-01-03T20:52:02.129-05:002013-01-03T20:52:02.129-05:001. The "grown up or mature" part of me ...1. The "grown up or mature" part of me says Felix should have stayed in the haven, yet the part of me that's reckless and loves a good story knows it wouldn't have been as interesting if he'd stayed. Unfortunately, I seriously doubt he returns to the haven to complete his healing. Guess I'll have to read Moonblood to find this out. I think Emraldera did the only thing she could do under the circumstances. If she'd forced Felix to stay, that would have been tantamount to imprisonment. Aethelbald and his servants do not work this way. Free will is important.<br /><br />2. As so many have said, Una's desire that Aethelbald not see her scale-covered hands illustrates her desire to appear before him in a positive light. Yet, she knows this is impossible. Ouch! Hits very close to home.<br /><br />3. The same lines as Ms. Christa. I also love Diarmid and feel immense empathy for him. His recounting of his rejection of Aethelbald's offer is chilling yet so sad. I was so touched when Aethelbald called him "brother".Meredithnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7102067376746188002.post-52527411041886029182013-01-03T18:55:00.501-05:002013-01-03T18:55:00.501-05:001) I think Felix should have listened to those who...1) I think Felix should have listened to those who knew about dragon poison and its effects. I don't think she could have forced him to stay, because it seems to me that Felix would have done something stupid in an attempt to get back to his father, so the safest way was to let him go.<br /><br />2) I thought it was an indication of her growing regard for him.Bekanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7102067376746188002.post-33205494051438801862013-01-03T13:45:54.815-05:002013-01-03T13:45:54.815-05:00So I was reading our chapter this morning and didn...So I was reading our chapter this morning and didnot realize the chapter had ended until ch 36. ha! Must go back to see what I shouldn't have seen. ha!<br /><br />1. I don't think there can be a "right or wrong" in Felix leaving. It was a choice which would have consequences either way. She couldn't force him, so she had to let him go. But she could have not told him, knowing the situation about his healing and what he would want to do....<br /><br />2. Nobody wants people to see the ugliness of their sin, their shortcomings, failing, etc. She was more exposed than if she were nude before him. Its the light/truth exposing, revealing, and she knows it, and still wants to hide it. She knows Aethelbald's heart is true, his love is pure, faced with that knowledge the feeling of complete unworthiness makes you want to hide from it, but with Lionheart she wanted him to see what he had done to her, to punish him maybe, to blame him. <br />Jennettehttp://www.jlmbewe.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7102067376746188002.post-17804576793423322682013-01-03T12:12:35.981-05:002013-01-03T12:12:35.981-05:00#3) How she hated him in that moment! Hated him en...#3) How she hated him in that moment! Hated him enough to swallow him whole--hated him for his heart, which she coveted; hated him for loving her as she could no longer love her jester-prince; hated him for not being her jester; hated him for all his stupid, noble self-sacrifice, so wasted on her.<br />Hated him because she knew she could never deserve his love. (pg. 313)<br /><br />The desert stretched around her in all its barren loneliness, but above--ah, above! There the sky vaulted from a light blue on the horizon up to greens and deeper blues, all the way to the deepest violet-indigos in the highest regions, where innumerable stars glittered, pure treasures unsullied by blood and greed. And the moon, its light engulfing any stars within its sphere, shone as a brilliant crown of white, more lovely than words. (pg. 314) Oh man, I just love the night sky! Sometimes I think I could just stare up at the stars for hours!Christanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7102067376746188002.post-88549540015300985412013-01-03T11:59:51.374-05:002013-01-03T11:59:51.374-05:002) I think that she did not want Aethelbald to see...2) I think that she did not want Aethelbald to see her in dragon form because deep down she new that it was her fault and wrong. Not only that, but he could fix it and she was not ready to let go.Bookishqueenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04815467506294547118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7102067376746188002.post-21923113624473284242013-01-03T11:40:52.840-05:002013-01-03T11:40:52.840-05:00I can already see one example of the theme of the ...I can already see one example of the theme of the power of family in Dragonwitch. Rather this scene is in the actual book or not, I don't know, but I know that the results greatly affected a character. I speak of the story of the Brothers Ashin, which we have learned in part in "Veiled Rose". As the story goes, "Etanun was stronger then his brother, but Akilun's love was greater still." I really look forward to see the theme continue.<br /><br />1. I totally understand Felix's desire to return home to help his father. He didn't understand the full danger of his wounds, but he was warned. Yet he is willing to risk all to save his dad. It is a heroic example of self-sacrifice. Imraldera was right not to stand in his way.Hannahnoreply@blogger.com