Now that I have finished reading Pygmalion I realized how much I don't like this book. The main reason I didn't like it was because the plot was slow and predicable. I also don't like how Eliza treats Mr. Higgins, when he has won his bet it seems that he is pretty much done with teaching Eliza and she acts most ungrateful to him, which is peculiar after everything Higgins did for her.

The part where they (Higgins and  Pickering) took Eliza out to show her off so to speak, was confusing to me it seemed to be over very quickly Higgins won his bet and there wasn't much of Eliza showing off what she had learned. I thought that would have been the climax of the book, but it was an interesting choice on Mr. Shaw's part.

Why has Eliza become so ungrateful that she would marry fFreddy and then she would teach phonetics with who seemed to be his rival, the hairy faced Hungarian. I understand Higgins treated her poorly, but he did make her into a duchess. Back on the marrying Freddy thing, what kind of ending is that to the book/play . I felt like there was more story to come, but it just got cut right off(which is another reason I didn't like this book).

Finally I've started reading "Pygmalion" by Bernard Shaw. If you were to judge this book by it's cover, (from what I've read so far) it would be exactly what you would think it to be. Pygmalion was a sculptor and king of Cyprus, he sculpted a statue of an elegant women and fell in love with it, and it was brought to life from his prayers to Aphrodite. So far this is what has happened in the book, Mr. Higgins is Pygmalion and Eliza Doolittle is his magnificent  sculpture. Mr. Higgins is my favorite characters, I feel like he is one of those guys who is completely civilized, but is supper nutty on the inside. I also feel like he is a big bully to people and he doesn't really realize it because he scrutinizes people with out understanding it hurts them.

What I don't understand is why the story is so so bland, the plot is very interesting, but the filler or the rest of the story just seems pretty boring  to me. The explanation I would have for it is that the book was written for a very early nineteenth century British audience. The other thing I find confusing is the colonel, he hasn't really done anything in the story so far and he seems to be somewhat of a large character. Really the only thing he has done is talk things over with Higgins on whether it is or isn't the right thing to do.

I was also wondering why is Mr. Higgins so eager to help a random girl on the street, it just seems so peculiar, and although he teaching her how to act like a lady, he is pretty much treating her like dirt, not in ways of how she is living, but how he personally treats her. Thats just not how you treat a lady in the real world, so why treat her that way?

Now, during the last chapters of "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck, we get to learn more about Kino. Not only is Kino a great fisherman and Pearler ( I guess thats the right term ), but he is good at running from people, surviving, and he is a ruthless killer.  He reminds me of Liam Neeson in "Taken", the movie, Liam Neeson is just a regular working class father, until his family is in danger and then he turns into a fierce protector, just like Kino.

Throughout the whole book I found the parts using the songs and musics in Kino's head, I still don,t really understand why the author used these songs to represent Kino's feelings, I feel like there could of been an easier, just as effective way of showing that in the book. Another confusing part was when Coyotito died, I guess, I didn't really understand if he was dead or not until the last couple of sentences of the book. I also think that ended the story horribly, because killing off the baby was quite saddening to me.

I wondered why Juana never questioned what Kino did or what /kino told her to do after what Kino did to her. During their whole journey Juana could of left Kino on his own, but she didn't. Kino could of gotten them killed or saved them. He did both and Juana trusted him to save them and although Coyotito died Kino kept Juana alive and later on in life she can have the joy of another child.

In conclusion, I liked the overall plot of the story, but the way it was written was confusing and didn't interest me. I got lost in the book very easily. This made the book a little unpleasant to read, but the counterbalance of the plot kept me reading.

"The Pearl", which I'm 50 pages through, is so far just seaming to be a story about hope. Yes hope. On the back of the book it talks about the American dream, and to live the American dream you have to have hope. Kino is not losing hope that he, Juana, and Coyotito can get out of the little fishing village they live in. When he finds "The Pearl of The World" he doesn't give up hope, he just stops hoping everything will be o.k. and starts knowing everything will be o.k

One part i found confusing about the book so far is the Doctor. He is just a big contridiction. When you become a doctor, you do it because you want to help people,Right? This doesn't seem to be the case with the doctor. He wants money or some other kind of payment out of everyone he treats. He also asks many questions about Kino's Pearl. What happened to him to make him so greedy and why would he move to this town and take advantage of the poorer people. 

The other thing that has been puzzling me is all the songs that Kino hears. I guess the songs are just a metaphor for his thoughts.

On my final note, what Juana was saying about how the pearl is cursed. It made me think about the show Lost, one of the characters, Hurley, got lucky and won the lottery, like Kino found the Pearl, an the money brought himself and his family bad luck, just like Juana thinks will happen with the pearl