The Bell Jar and my ramblings

I recently had my birthday in the past few weeks. So I made some goals for my self to accomplish by my next birthday. One of them is to read 13 classic novels by next birthday. So I started off with The Bell Jar. A book that has always been on my list to read. I just would get side track my YA books that I have either been waiting for months to read or just have caught my eye. I have to be in a certain mood to read certain books. I want it to fit with how I feel. The Bell Jar is a great book. I am not saying you should be sad and depressed to read this book. It's just something I need to get past and realized I shouldn't always keep my mood from keeping me reading certain books.

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath was a emotional read. We are taken in to the mind of Ester Greenwood. Ester is in New York were she has an internship for a month along with 11 other women. During this internship Ester realizes she is not stimulated at all over anything. She always had a goal in life and now that she had graduate college and was done there were no goals a head of her. Nothing in her life excites her and she just goes through the motions. We the reader start to follow Esters decent into a major depression. Sylvia takes us in to the mind and gives us the slight understanding of what it is like to be a manic depressive. Which is very hard for anyone to understand if they have never experience it them selves. What makes this book even more emotional is the fact this is loosely based on Syliva's life. She committed sucide after this book was published in the U.K. So the experience and emotion in the book are from some one who has been there in that dark void.

When I finished the book it really helped open my eyes more to depression. I know I get down and want to live in bed at times. However I have family and friends whom have suffered deep depression and I feel that this book helped me a little understand how they see life. It scared me a little but it open my eyes to another way to see and experience the world.

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