Wednesday, November 17, 2010

"A Temple of the Holy Ghost"

     When I began to read this story I was a little confused. I didn't know how to interpret anything because the author was throwing names around, after i read over the beginning more and more I began to get a better understanding of what the characters were actually saying and doing. the story began with the author narrating about two girls that called each other Temple One and temple Two. From there I knew instantly that this was going to be a religious text. Although they called each other "temple" they began to laugh and they laughed so hard that they began to turn red and they looked uglier than they looked normally, so I sought to believe that they were not taking any of this seriously. Then the story said that they were wearing "brown convent" uniforms, which probably meant that they attended a private Christian school, which is probably where they heard about the "temple". After I realized that they did know a little bit about God i assumed that they were smart young girls that could afford to go to a private Christian school, but I was totally wrong. The book says that they were fourteen years old, and they were not very "bright" and then it proceeded to say that the reasoning behind them being sent to a convent is because they weren't very smart at all. Then when I read on i saw that they had a younger sister that was smarter than them and instantly I noticed that they could be mentally disabled. i mean they laugh a lot even when a person says something serious and their little sister is smarter than they are. The author also explains that they are not very bright multiple times. i began to notice that the baby sister was very critical and not very understanding of her two older disabled sisters, or anyone for that matter especially the "Church of God" people. She was very mean and harsh and rarely had something nice to say. in the end she noticed how crude she really was and I believe that she wanted all of those negative emotions to wear off when she was in the presence of God.

2 comments:

  1. I like your last sentence. I think that when you are in the precense of God all things are put into the right perspective and I think this is exactly what happened to the little girl.

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  2. That was an interesting way of looking at it :)

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