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Sunday, March 21, 2010

This Blessed House

My senior quote when I graduated from high school was "you can have the biggest home but you can only be in one room at a time." There are many implications to this statement I made back in high school but I think it applies to this story as well. For example Twinkle never took for granted the mystery of their new home in that she was always expecting to find a new item. She never gave up on the mystery and hope of finding random Christian objects. Her husband Sanjeev however could have cared less about what was in the house so long as it did not affect his plans for the house. She was a joyous individual who rather enjoyed finding the Christian objects and became curious about who and why the Christian objects. Sanjeev was a serious person and became annoyed over time and was rather ashamed of the objects. To be honest his annoyance seemed to be building up inside of him and the reader felt like he would eventually say something dreadful to Twinkle that would really hurt her. Nevertheless her persistence on finding the objects never waned and she even placed many on the mantle above the fire place. His persistence was about getting the house all fixed up and cleaned, not to mention he would even keep nagging Twinkle about the objects. He even was about to, during a party held at the house, grab all the Christian objects and throw them all away. He even at one point, after Twinkle discovered a window sticker of the virgin Mary, tried to scrape off the image only to scratch the window glass, not to mention he hated the virgin Mary statue outside so much that he was even willing to hit it with a hammer. His persistence at getting rid of the Christian objects was as strong as Twinkle's persistence at finding more Christian objects. In fact her persistence was so strong that despite being drunk at the house party along with several other guests, she told everyone about the objects and showed them the mantle with almost all of the objects. She also while drunk remembered the last place in the house she had not looked, and she was rewarded by her persistence in finding a large silver head of Christ in trunk up in the attic. Nevertheless despite this discovery at the end She wants to display the silver Christ head on the mantel and he knew that despite her stating it would go to her office the day after, it would never leave the mantle. But the reader is left at a lost since it simply ends with him following Twinkle into the living room while carrying the silver Christ head. A reader can't tell whats going to happen next due to a cut off ending so that leaves the reader up to decide what happens next. But it seems that despite his hatred of the object he accepts its existence and finally just moves on.

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