Blog Post Review of Sylvie :)

URL for Sylvie's Blog Post on "Blonde Roots": http://thedaffodilgirl.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2013-01-25T05:09:00-08:00&max-results=7

After reading through at least sixty blogs I decided to write about Sylvie Freedman's blog post on "Blonde Roots" by Bernardine Evaristo. Sylvie first described in great detail all about the book and what I needed to know in order to understand what she had to say. As part of her blog post Sylvie went on to discuss the theme of the story. Her theme became the love for external beauty in this society.  

Sylvie discussed how society thinks that skinny fingers are "ugly as sin", and she found it curious. I definitely agree with Sylvie's point of view because of the society we live in. In today's culture, models are dangerously thin and the rest of society is trying to become as thin as possible. In this society where the Africans enslave the Europeans as slaves the theme that we see today is completely switched around. Maybe this author has a double meaning, and that if we are fat or thin, no matter what, someone in society will judge us. 

Sylvie also discussed how dolls are a symbol of perfection. When the main character, Doris was a child she played with dolls that are the classic blonde and blue eyed dolls we have in today's society. In this twisted world these new European slaves are given dolls that are slightly obese and have "wooly hair" and "bangles". This contradicts everything we see today, and Sylvie wanted to note that so we could understand how we would see things if we were part of Doris's world. Sylvie then went on to discuss the weight people want to be.

In today's lifestyle girls want to be a size zero to two in jeans, but in this society it is a sign of wealth to be overweight. Sylvie described how women love to feast and then show their obesity because it shows that they are on a higher status in society. Sylvie then went on to explain that neither of these techniques work well for the people. Sylvie stated, "I don't really know if either one of these is better than the other. They both hurt their bodies in different ways". 

I really enjoyed Sylvie's analysis of "Blonde Roots" because she truly accentuated the societal difference and it seems that Sylvie really wanted to make a point. Sylvie stated that this was probably the message wanted to send and it's very clear that Sylvie understood the theme of this book right from the start. I truly agreed with everything Sylvie said and I loved the blog post.