The American
By: David • Essay • 357 Words • December 11, 2009 • 832 Views
Essay title: The American
The American By Henry James was the book that I chose to read. This book was about a European man that is living in France in the late 1900’s. his passion is to move to America, but he doesn’t have enough money so he try’s to find ways to make money quickly. This book was a bore, I could barely keep my eyes open while reading it. I think that this book is just a bunch of paper that no one wants to read or wants. I admit that it was interesting at first, but got slower, and slower as the book progressed.
Besides from being a boring book it had some important lessons and themes that you would learn from. I found that the most important theme was “to never give up” because in the end he got what he wanted since the beginning of the book. During several of his misadventures. There was one that the author kept going back too. That the main character Newman wanted to marry the secondary character Clair and he asked her to marry him in the 4th or 5th chapter of the book. She said not yet and to wait 6 months. He did wait 6 months and the asked her again if she wanted to marry him. This