WRITING A BOOK REVIEW SUSHILA RAWAT INNOVATIVE GROUP -2

TITLE AUTHOR TYPE SUBJECT Characters

--Far from the madding crowd --Thomas Hardy --It is a story based on tragedy -- Its about family life and about farm with cornfield, sheep and cattle, bee hiving

*Bathsheba Everdene -- She is the main female character of the novel around which the story revolves. *Fanny Robin -- Second most important female character of the novel who appears to be marked out of tragedy. -- She is the maid servant of Bathsheba Everdene. -- Most important character of the novel. He is a young man of sterling qualities and master of his trade sheep rearing, but very unassuming. -- He is the second most important male character like Fanny Robin, he too was marked -- He is a happy go lucky guy who live in the present .He is the source of misery in the novel

*Liddy Smallberry *Gabrial Oak

*Farmer Boldwood

*Francis Troy

Settings

-- *Wessex The south western part of England *Narcombe Hill- the place where Gabriel oak lived *Weather Bury- most of the scene takes place at this village *Weatherbury upper farm- farm of Bathsheba Everdene

Time

-- It is written in the present tense

Events- Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues, threatening the stability of the whole community. The first of his works set in Wessex, Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with his evocative descriptions of rural life and landscapes, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships. Ideas - The writer is saying something important about a tragedy

Comments- what was it like to read- it was easy to read

*How would you describe the story- A sad story *Did you like it- Yes *What do you specially about it-I liked that woman can also become big farmers and can be independent in life *How did you feel-Sad