thoughts

I really enjoyed the ending of the book and how everything came together. One part that surprised me was when Eva stops at the Pearl of the Orient to see Riad Halabi and sees that he is married to a young girl. I really liked on page 274 when Eva said “I was happy for him, for how well he looked. From that moment I have thought of him as the father that in fact he was; the image fitted him much better then that of lover for one night.” Although the fact that an old man like Riad married a teenage girl is slightly disturbing, I think that it is important because it symbolizes Eva closing the Riad chapter of her life and moving on. I also liked how when Rolf and Eva finally came together, they had already been successful on their own and throughout the novel we got to see the obstacles that they overcame that led up to them being together. Throughout the novel I found myself constantly making predictions as to how and when Rolf and Eva would meet and I think the that Isabel Allende did an excellent job of fusing their stories together.