Oroonoko

I'm really nervous about this book. I think someone else said they had a really bad feeling about it and so do I. I think the chosen narrator for this book is interesting, first of all she's a woman and then second she is unnamed. Why not give her a character right away? Interesting choice. This one of the first books in this class that I have been able to get lost in, and I mean to "lose myself in reading" not be confused. I could not put it down.  So I found the narrator's tone a bit infantilizing and condescending. She compared the native people to Adam and Eve once too. Amazing you really cannot read anything written in the English language without understanding the basic biblical stories. But at the same time it could be worse than just infantilizing since she is living on a british colony and usually there is far worse racism than that. Oroonoko seems like he really has his shit together. He's brave, smart, apparently beautiful. But I am really nervous about this story, like I said before. You cannot have two beautiful young people who want to fall in love and get married and then boom everyone lives happily ever after. No! That never happens! Interesting that Oroonoko wants to stick to monogamy in this situation, even though it is the norm to take many wives. It seems like the authors western views are creeping in. You cannot write a book without writing your opinion though. But still, Thats an interesting part of this! I saw on the blog someone wrote that Oroonoko's optimism/trusting nature was annoying and I agree. There is nothing worse than a naive character in a tragedy. It just hurts to much.

I don't know who this is but I found it by googling the name of the book and I think it's super cool.