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Week7: Night Circus 6 pt.

 10/23/2020


For this week’s reading, I choose Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. The story is well descriptive, and it’s interesting that it is not only a story about a circus, but also has a fairly realistic sense of the changing times and the emotional changes between the characters. The story is obviously fictional, but Morgenstern clearly lists the time of the event, separates the characters according to the group, and takes care of every detail, so that the whole story becomes extremely realistic to me. I can almost believe that the circus really existed when I read it.


Even though the story is mainly about the love story of Celia and Marco, but honestly, I did not know why Marco fell in love with Celia so suddenly and can not hold back that wild love. On the other hand, Celia has spent her whole life to hold back herself, but suddenly collapses in front of Marco. Because both of them have great looking appearance, so I personally understand it as due to them adoring each other’s appearance and the pity for each other's miserable life with no other choice, they fall in deep love.


There are a lot of other people in the story, but in general speaking, few of them are given full imagery. Most of them are depicted with a simple appearance, but the author is still very dedicated in the end to take care of everyone. In addition, in the ending, the author still gives the source of the story thoughtfully, but the logic of the source itself is still a little stiff.

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