Blog 13

How would you describe the ending? Use strong adjectives, creative interpretation. Use specific examples from text to back up ideas.

What lesson do you think it is trying to teach to readers? Explain answer.

After reading my love, my love or the peasant girl, I would say it’s a tragic ending I have predicted for a long time. That’s truly sad, and even more tragic than the little mermaid or Romeo and Juliet. For little mermaid, since the man has never loved the little mermaid, he didn’t give him any hope so that’s not that said when the little mermaid lost everything at last. For Romeo and Juliet, at least they have love so that their death is worthy. The peasant girl, Ti Moune, died with nothing: no love, no family nor friends. I would say that she’s too young and too naïve so that this tragic ending would happen to her.

Ti Moune tried hard to start a new life because she thought she’s special. However, all her wishes brought her to be hated by the rich states, “I don’t pay you good money to leave dead peasants in front of my hotel” (p. 168). Daniel’s dad didn’t hate her; he just ignored her because she’s a tiny peasant and they lived in a different world. Even Daniel saw her as a little pet more than a person, who was equal to Daniel. According to the book, when Andrea saw Ti Moune, she said, “Daniel, how lovely. Never have I seen such a beautiful black girl. Can we keep her?” (p.150). Andrea used “keep” instead of can we live with her. It seem like she’s just want to keep a pet instead of give her a good life. However, Ti Moune had never really notice about this and so that it cause the tragedy because she looked too high to herself.

Peasants were always peasants in this book, no matter how hard she tried. Well actually, I didn’t think she deserved to be rich because she wasn’t really paid anything. She didn’t spend any time to work nor study. The only thing that Ti Moune did was to imagine something when she has a better life. For example, when Daniel was sick and Mama wanted Ti Moune to work because she couldn’t help anything actually. Ti Moune just pretended to work but actually only think about her patient. She’s been not concentrated in her real life, so that this also caused the tragedy that she’s been hungry and died, alone.

Admittedly, I’m not sure about what the writer wanted to teach me, but what I learned is that people shouldn’t underestimate their power and all dreams should be brought by a dependable effort. Firstly, as I said before, because of Ti Moune thought she’s special and everybody should love her, she lost herself and she thought her power was too big. In fact, Ti Moune was just a little peasant girl whose mind was filled by fake imaginations. Indeed, she was beautiful, but she’s also different so that the rich people couldn’t accept him. Otherwise, for people who have dreams, they should really do things to make them rich instead of thinking about luckiness that they might be brought by a rich man. The only thing people could depend on is their self. Since Ti Moune gave all her mind to Daniel and decided not to work for her future anymore, she already caused her ending. Thus, by reading the book, I learned that we should understand ourselves better and self-strong.