Pride and Prejudice & Symbolism

As my new book, I chose to read Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. It contains 332 pages, which would take me about three weeks and a few days, if I read 100 pages a week. It would take me about three weeks and a few more day, but for some books, it might take a little more time. This book was one of many books that were recommended to me by my sister, but she explained how great of a book it was, so I decided to read this book after reading My Sister's Keeper.

So far I read only 30 pages, even though I have spent a lot of time trying to read the book. The assignment states that I have to read 100 pages each week, but I think that it would take a long time to read. Usually, I am a slow reader, but for this book, it takes me forever to read even one or two pages. In my opinion, Jane Austen wrote a great story, but I think that it's on a higher level than what I should read. There is a lot of unfamiliar vocabulary, which make it harder to understand. This leads me to take a longer time to read, because when I read books, I try not to miss anything, so I try to read and understand almost every sentence. I should not do this, but I don't want to get confused later on in the book, just because I didn't understand a few sentences. I read sentences over and over again, and I also try to use the context clues to figure out what the words mean, but that also eats up time. In conclusion, I decided to change my independent reading book, because Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen was on a higher reading level than mine, and it took a long time to read.

While reading Pride and Prejudice, I don't think that I came across a symbol. Even though I read only 30 pages, I think that I can make up a symbol that relates to the book. Throughout my time reading this book, I realized that most of the book so far, was about the Bennet daughers, and their desire to marry rich men. Each daughter liked a certain characteristic in a man, but I think that the symbol of a ring can relate to each person. Since the daughters want to marry a man, or their parents want them to marry, a ring can be a good symbol. It can show something about marriage, which relates to most of the book. When you think of a ring, you think of relationships, although it might not be marriage, so I think that is a great symbol that can be used in the book.