Journal Entry 4/25/15

Trying to read With in a budding grove, so that I am ahead, but this grave shift is so boring that every time I start to read I fall asleep. I think I will work on my close reading, I will have to print it out tomorrow. I really enjoyed the interaction with the narrator and Elstir. It reminds me of a big brother showing his little brother the way, I don’t know why it just does. Elstir is not at all the same person as the painter was portrayed to be in fact I don’t think many people realize at first who Elstir is, I know I didn’t. The painter was a whiny, rude and opinionated follower. He was young and impressionable. Elstir has obviously grown up, he is more mature. I think that he realizes that a lot of what he did in his youth was wrong, like painting the picture of Odette, which he hides when his wife comes in to the room. I am so nervous to read on Monday, I know I will be tired.