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| Plot Summary of Blessings |
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"The story begins with a teenage couple driving up to Blessings, the estate owned by Lydia Blessing. They leave a newborn baby girl in a box and take off. In this instant, the world of Blessings is changed forever.
Skip Cuddy is the caretaker of the estate, finds the baby asleep in the box and decidses he would like to keep her. Lydia Blessing decides for her own reasons, that she will help him.
Later on though, Skip Cuddy will have to confront the authorities and the natural mother decides to return to the scene after all."
Boppy, Resident Scholar
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"Blessings by Anna Quindlen, Random House, 226 pages
AQ weaves an interesting story about a place (the house is called Blessings after the family that has lived there), about the old way of life, about how it clashes with the new way. The novel begins with a child left in the doorstep in the middle of the night and found in the morning and what ensues. Readers of Quindlen will recognize her characteristic graceful prose, keen power of observation and an economical way of laying it on paper. Blessings has some traces of her popular book One True Thing. Though it isn't as punchy and dramatic and touching as One True Thing, this is a good read with its fairy-tale like setting. "
R Prasad, Resident Scholar
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| Review Analysis of Blessings |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- upbeat
- thoughtful
Time/era of story
- 1980's-1999
Family, loving relations
Yes
Special relationship with
- daughter
Pregnancy/Child rearing
Yes
Major part of story:
- general child raising
- giving up children
Main Character
Gender
- Male
- Female
Profession/status:
- servant
- homemaker
Age:
- 20's-30's
- 60's-90's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
- Female
Age:
- 20's-30's
- 60's-90's
Profession/status:
- accused criminal
- wealthy
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- an above average amount
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- very athletic
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 8 ()
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Lot of foul language?
Yes
Unusual Style:
- a lot of flashback and forwards
- a lot of stream of consciousness
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
- significantly more descript than dialog
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