2013 Perfect Peace (Gone Away)

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Vintage 20 May Language: Be the first to review this item Amazon Bestsellers Rank: Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a product review. Most helpful customer reviews on Amazon. It's something on the kibbutz. A war is brewing. The pioneers, the heroic generation, are exhausted, sick, and old. Their children are not turning out the way the parents wanted.

The young ones are not thinking of self-discipline and sacrifice; they are thinking about themselves. Yonatan is married to a young woman who seems semi-retarded, though she is beautiful.

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She has lost her baby and can't seem to have another. Yonatan has grown up on the kibbutz and imagines the world to be Out There, enticing, romantic, full of adventure. He wants to see it. He wants to get away from Rimona, his beautiful but too acquiescent wife. She quietly, dutifully, does whatever seems to be expected of her. She even had an abortion before Efrat was born and died because Yonatan wanted her to.

He wasn't ready for children yet, he said. His father, who heads up the kibbutz, is an old friend of the prime minister, and has served in the Knesset. Yoni's mother wants grandchildren and wants her husband to stop being such a pushover. She's a real yenta, that one. The kibbutz-- and the rest of Israel-- seems to be populated with characters. One of them, an old Russian, sits in an unheated shack on the kibbutz talking to himself and knitting sweaters for the children.

But basically, in one way or another, everybody's a character. Then along comes Azariah, an orphan, an outcast, surviving who knows what, long-haired, skinny, starving, and begs for a job. The kibbutz doesn't need him, but Yonatan has announced that the machine shop "isn't his thing" and his disbelieving father in disgust tells Azariah that he can try it out, see what he can do with the machinery. The bottom line is that a triangle, no matter what shape it is, well, the sum of its angles always equal degrees.

There's no way out of it, no getting around it. No matter how it's drawn, a triangle's angles always equal degrees. If you can't see that, then you can't see much at all, and you're going to be discontented like Yonatan and dreaming of a world where degrees is not absolutely and invariably the sum of the angles of a triangle. Amoz Oz wrote this book in the s, but it's as relevant today as then. He paints a world of people stumbling, blundering, searching, getting ill, getting old, which is pretty much the way things are right now and will be for a long time to come.

What did you think of Emma Jean's decision? Of Henrietta's choice s? Did your opinion of Emma Jean change once read about her childhood? Did your opinion of Henrietta change when you read of her past?

I was awed by how Gus deals with his emotions. The idea of a man purging his emotional stress by crying out in the rain actually struck me as quite beautiful. He appears to be a kind man and a good father, even if he is a bit slow. At first I could not get a clear picture of Emma Jean. She seemed to love her children, but at the same time always wanting something else. She definitely runs the household and makes all of the rules, whether they make sense or not. They have been blessed with good children. All of them have a gift that sets them apart from the others in some way.

Even Bartimaeus has a specialness to him that is not hindered by his blindness. Since that is the premise of this book, I was not shocked by what she did, but I just can't fathom it! Why would someone do that to their own child. How could she think this was a good idea?

I felt awful for Henrietta because she was clearly being blackmailed, but I still hold her at fault too. This chapter was heartbreaking. It just reinforces the idea that damages done to a child don't end with that child. Emma Jean's mother damaged her deeply and now Emma Jean is going to harm her child in an entirely different but equally harmful way. There are strong themes of self hatred and colorism which are very evident here.

I still think Emma Jean's choice was wrong, but at least I can understand it just a little. I can understand, but again, I think they will all pay for their deception in the end.

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I noticed that Black uses the color yellow repeatedly, and I guess it stemmed from Emma Jeans love of the color. A yellow bird was outside the window was her 'sign'.

She wanted to put yellow ribbons in the baby's hair and yellow dresses. She wanted a yellow birthday cake for her birthday party. I don't mean that in a judgemental way but in a literal way. They both were definitely products of their enviroments and childhood and in some cases just didnt' know any better. And what's worse is that they just kept making babies They wouldn't be top candidates for a gene bank, but isn't it amazing that those children they kept making, turned out sooo well. I have noticed this in life too. What do you feel about the word love in the story?

I know that you touched on it a bit when you said that you believe Emma Jean did love her children. My insight on th She never was shown love. I really do think she loves them, but maybe what I am attributing to love her defending them to her mother later on is really something else. In any case, her form of love is extremely unhealthy.

Yeah, it was evident that she didn't love Gus. Maybe he thought he loved her once, but that seems to have faded as well. It also symbolizes deceit and cowardice which is definitely true to the whole plot of the story. Also it's used simply as a represention of caution.

It's also considered an unstable color. So I definitely believe Black didn't randomly pick the color yellow I really hadn't thought about 'what' the yellow symbolized. All of what you wrote makes perfect sense though. It will be fun to keep an eye out for yellow throughout the book. Oct 15, And they were not ashamed. They seem to have very similar personalities. What do you think of this ritual? Do you think this will cause jealousy with her other children? Would you feel compelled to visit someone like that? Do you think this has helped Emma Jean to move on?

Do you think she would have been a different person if she would have gone to live with him? Yellow paint for the bedroom that Perfect will sleep in. I think that Gus' ritual of purging out his troubles with the rain is wonderful. I was glad that Bartimaeus shared his particular sensitivites and that he no longer had to feel alone.

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There are always people who feel things more deeply than others, and this ritual would seem to be an effective way for them to cope. The oldest son, James Earl also seems to be more sensitive than others. I wonder how he will fare in comparison because he does not seem to have a coping mechanism. I think Emma Jean is going to regret doting on Perfect so much. She seems to be repeating the cycle that her mother started. Her boys are going to resent all the extras that Perfect will get. I don't blame Emma Jean. I would not visit the woman.

I was glad that Emma Jean spoke up and stopped her mother from talking about her family. The woman is evil. I think Emma Jean would have been a much different person had she gone to live with her father. He seemed to truly love and cherish her, even from afar. Once again, her mother managed to poison something that was good for her. Oct 16, I'm all for men expressing themselves and all of that. But the whole crying in the rain regularly as a tradition for me is just awkward.

He has made millions from his tears. But it won't change her. Not just that one circumstance. She won't change until she realizes that she has become her mother. It was so over-the-top! Emma Jean wearing a flower garden on her head and openly challenging the pastor, Sugar Man declaring that "That baby ain't right!

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That was a lot to digest. What did you think about the whole thing? I thought the scene was just 'off' Emma Jean is a little unstable so she might just wear a homemade bouquet on her head, but the shouting match with Sugar Man and her basically telling off the pastor about Perfect's name was a bit much. The men deacons standing around cussing on the church grounds was also a little too unbelievable.

It was also mentioned several times in this section that Perfect looks a lot like Gus. I'm sure this is a prelude to the future 'big reveal' hide spoiler ]. I thought you were past that point already. I will hide my last post. Hope you didn't already read it! Oct 17, Oct 18, I see she does love her children. Maybe I've been hard on ole Emma Jean! She is repeating some patterns learned from her Momma in the next section and I just want to shake her! How could Emma Jean not see that her preferential treatment of Perfect was hurting her boys, especially Mister.

That Yellow haired doll caused a lot of jealousy and I was so angry at Gus for slapping Mister just because he pointed out the obvious. It made me think of how some people favor one gender over the other in real life too. I have known people who favor their daughters over their sons and vice versa. It seems so awful to me, but it happens. I have two boys, so I don't guess I have to worry about that particular thing. I thought it was interesting how differently the two kids perceived the mother's role in the household. Ch 12 That coffin thing was super crazy! I really hope that Bartimaeus sleeping in it isn't a prelude to anything happening to him.

How ironic that a blind child figured it out. He must be so confused. I was glad he had the forethought to warn Perfect that people might hurt her if they knew. I am at a 4 right now on the rating. Hope the rest of the book maintains.

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Oct 19, She was definitely knocked back to reality with the menstruation question! I wish it were as simple as some of us do and some of us don't. LOL I don't have the book with me this weekend, but if you want to discuss the next chapters I can.