Andreas.A
11/2/2010
Reading Log #3
My book is called “Eye of the Needle” by Ken Follett. This is my third reading log for this story. My story starts following my prior reading log. It starts off with Godliman trying to catch “The Needle”. They manage to find some letters written by The Needle and Godliman and at this point agents were trying to depict the secret message that The Needle was trying to send. They couldn’t crack the secret code and figure out the meaning of these messages. They have no lead on finding The Needle and they waited until they had better evidence and a lead. Meanwhile The Needle has committed a second murder. He has murdered an agent codenamed Blondie. They believe he came in a parachute a couple of weeks ago. He was a peaceful young man with a blond moustache. The Needle had done a very neat job. He had stabbed him with his Stiletto under the rib and straight up into the heart. But Godliman still had no lead on catching The Needle. Then there is a shift between this story to the couple living on the Island. Lucy’s mother had come to visit the couple. She came to see her grandchild and spend a few weeks at their house. A huge fight broke out between Lucy and David, the argument was because Lucy believed that David didn’t love her anymore, she wants someone to love her and take care of her. David believed that she and her mother were gossiping about his personal wife therefore he wanted her mother to leave and not stay any longer. Lucy’s mother did not stay and the chapter ends with her leaving the Island.
While I was reading today I could clearly picture the fight between Lucy and David. David didn’t want Lucy’s mother to stay any longer and Lucy wanted David to love her like he loved her before the accident. I could picture the atmosphere and the arguing. The character that I can connect to in my story would be David because I don’t like people gossiping about my personal life behind my back and I understand why David would react that way. I am having some difficulties understanding my story because of the shift between two stories, there are two different stories going on at the same time but then somehow will merge. I cannot connect to something similar that the characters in my book have experienced because the characters are either paralyzed, secret agents, or murderers. There experiences are somehow extreme to my experiences because it takes place during the Second World War.
The literary features in my book are characterized with a great amount of imagery; there are very descriptive parts in the book that can make me paint a perfect visual image in my mind. For example “The supply boat rounded the headland and chugged into the bay at Storm Island under a blue sky. There were two women in it: one was the skipper’s wife- he had been called up and now she ran the business- and the other was Lucy’s mother. Mother got out of the boat wearing a utility suit, a mannish jacket and an above the knee skirt. Lucy hugged her mightily.” This passage was a very good example of imagery. Another literary devise was the conflict between The Needle and Blondie. It was man vs. man and ended up with Blondie getting stabbed with a Stiletto in the heart.
The plot in my book is very realistic because it is based on facts that actually occurred in history, World War 2. It is not based on a true story but the plot is realistic and historically accurate. The character that I would like to have as a friend would be David because he is a hard worker and a loyal friend. He also seems like a pretty cool guy. The part that I read today fits together with the other books that I read previously because the other book I read was D-Day. Which is what triggered the Second World War, so both stories are about the same historical event and based on the same thing. I can predict that in the next section these two stories will merge or I hope so. Something will link these two stories, The Needle and Storm Island. I think that somehow The Needle will end up on Storm Island and meet the couple.
If I could jump into my book right now I would jump into the part where The Needle murders Blondie. I would somehow try and prevent that from happening. I would warn Blondie telepathically about what is going to happen and provide him with a weapon to defend himself against The Needle. The part that I could visualize the best in what I read today was the argument between Lucy and David. I could just picture the whole fight going on and the angry mood. The fight was so detailed on specific, every movement, every word every tear was analyzed with great detail. I could almost slowly imagine this whole scene going on in my head like a movie. The passage was rich in imagery. The only person I can connect to if anybody would be David, because he feels that he has no privacy when Lucy’s mother was around. He felt like she was dissecting his personality, and pocking into his personal life and gossiping about him behind his back. I guess I can somehow relate to this because I sometimes feel that there is no privacy.
