Stephanie

Book: //P.S. I Love You// by Cecelia Ahern

Pages read: Page 1 to 156

Title that I have Created: Lost Love and Letters (Post One)

Date: April 27, 2010

Significant Quote: //"Go on Disco Diva! Face your fear of karaoke of Club Diva this month and you never know, you might be rewarded . . . PS, I love you . . ."// (Ahern, page 71)

Explanation: This quote is important because ever since Gerry died Holly has been an emotional wreck and a total mess in a walking emotional bombshell. Also Gerry has left Holly notes to help her get over her death. In these notes Gerry leaves little tasks for Holly to do each month. The task that Gerry has left for her this month is to sing karaoke in Club Diva. This quote is significant because the last time that Holly sang she totally humiliated herself, and she doesn't want that to happen again. By doing this Holly would embarass herself like the last time, but on the other hand she would start to overcome the tragedy that occurred when Gerry died.

HOT Q: Why did Gerry choose to leave behind messages for Holly for after he died?

Answer to HOT Q: I think that Gerry decided to leave the messages behind for Holly because he knew how devestaed Holly would be without him there. Also he could have thought that the little messages would help Holly get through and over his death faster. Another reason that he could have choosen to leave them behind so that they would give Holly something to look forward to each month that he was gone. Also it could have given him something to do, and to help keep his mind off his illness and his death. Although he could have left them (the messages) behind for various reasons, I believe that the main number one reason that he left Holly the messages was because she would need a way to move on with her life, get over his death quicker, and to not remain stuck in the past.

Connenction: I can connect to Holly and the emotion of embarassment. I can connect to this emotion because in the section that I read Gerry is having Holly do various tasks in order to get over him faster, even if that means having her do things that he knows she really won't want to do. My connection is that in forth grade I volunteered to perform in my churches anual Chirstmas talent show. I was at a loss of what my talent should be for the show, so I asked my parents for advice. My parents idea was that I should play a Chirstmas song on the clarinet. After taking their idea into consideration and coming up with nothing better to do I wanted to back out. Unfortunatly my parents wouldn't let me, so I practiced the song until I knew some of it by heart, and kept begging my parents to let me drop out (which they wouldn't). So when I had to perform I hit a couple of wrong and really squeaky notes (from blowing on the mouth piece wrong) and my face got as red as a tomato and I got so nervous and I didn't eat anything. Something similar to this happend to Holly when she had to sing karaoke because that's what Gerry's note told her to do. Holly got extremely red as well, just like I did, she also ran into the bathroom and threw up because of nerves, what I almost did. So all in all me and Holly have a somewhat similar humiliating experience.

Book: //P.S. I Love You//

Pages read: Page 156 to 313

Title that I have Created: Lost Love and Letters (Post Two)

Date:

Significant Quote: " 'Gerry was my frined too," she said, tears pricking in her eyes. 'And Tom didn't even know him at all. So I try to tell him things about Gerry all the time just so he knows that not long ago//,// one of the nicest men on this earth was //my// friend and I think //everyone// should have known him//.'// Her lip wobbled and she bit down it hard. ' But I can't believe that someone I know love so much, who knows everything else about me, doesn't know a friend that I loved for ten years' " (Ahern, pg 238)