Q3 Blog #6

For this outside reading we were supposed to find a text relating to hope. So I decided to write about the current book that I am reading. It is call Diary by Chuck Palahniuk. It is about a woman who was going to be an artist but then got married, and had a child. Her husband then tried to kill himself and is now in a coma. She is just now (which is about 130 pages into the book) getting back into art. Up until now hope has not been a central theme, but instead the lack there of. Now hope has begun to show itself in the form of Misty (the main character) picking painting back up. Although her health is diminishing she feels perfectly well while painting. Also they have become very poor, but she is already getting large offers of money for her paintings. Oddly though she is not selling them because she says that they are her clues to a larger picture so she needs to keep them for her greatest work. This kind of confuses me, but hopefuly it will turn out in a really crazy interesting Palahniuk style twist.

Palahniuk, Chuck. Diary. New York, NY. Anchor Books. 2003.