Book Presentation The Passionate Witch

BOOK PRESENTATION

The Passionate Witch

Thorne Smith

1954 

Smith was born at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland on May 27, 1892 to James and Florence Thorne Smith.

  Following hungry years in Greenwich Village, working part-time as an advertising agent, Smith achieved meteoric success with the publication of Topper in 1926. He was an early resident of Free Acres, a social experimental community developed by Bolton Hall according to the economic principles of Henry George in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey.

He died of a heart attack in 1934 while vacationing in Florida.

Genre of book is Classic Story by Thorne Smith, completed by Norman Matson with Drawings by Herbert Roese. There are 243 pages.

The other books was published by Thorne Smith:

1. Did She Fall?

2. The Glorious Pool.

3. Rain In The Doorway. 

4. The Stray Lamb.

5. Topper .

Language (use of technical or unusual vocabulary, use of dialect, complicated sentences)

This book is writen by America’s most brilliantly imaginative humorist, The Passionate Witch is a classics of mischief – ribald and boisterous. There were many unusual words and complicated sentences but I could predict the meaning by adjusting with the context of the sentences but if I couldn’t find the meaning, I looked up in the dictionary. According to me, because I am an English learner, I think the level of this book is rather difficult. Many unfamiliar vocabularies.

Plot or point of view (multiple points of view or multiple time frames)

The authors used multiple point as the point of view in this story.

Plot of the story is Forward , because the story goes according to the sequence of events. But there are some parts of story that use backwards plot.

Place : Warburton’s restaurant, in the office, in the Hotel Monroe Policy

It all began when T. Wallace Wooly, the soul of propriety and vegetarianism, rescued the nude, strangely unharmed, and smolderingly attractive Jennifer from a burning hotel. There was no time, then, to quibble about how he would look in front-page photos coming down the stairs with a nude girl slung over his shoulders. But, when he discovered a week later that he had married the lady, he seriously wished he had shown more discretion and less valor.

There was something extremely unconventional about Jennifer. In fact, Mr. Wooly soon realized that the yellow-eyed Jennifer was a witch- the kind who would leave you in peace only when she lay buried at a crossroad with a stake through her heart. And the kind who made it necessary for Mr. Wooly to forsake carrot juice for some of the most monumental binges ever recorded in print

I enjoyed this book because this novel has a very interesting plot and humorist story . Especially when the author tells the situation and condition details . This makes the reader can imagine what is happening in the story at that time. And also the plot of this story can make the readers not bored.

The Passionate Witch is the last novel. The Passionate Witch, which the content of the story is so interesting and humorist that make me eager to read another book by Thorne Smith.

I will just recommend this book to adult people because I think the content of this novel is about the modern of sexy witch, so that it is not suitable for children and teens. 

                                                                                                                                

I like in Chapter 10, this is the last straw. Wooly, unable to enlist the law, confronts Jennifer with a whip and a prayer-book. When she is forced to read the Lord’s Prayer it comes out backwards “for, being a witch, she could only say it…the way of the Black Mass”. He insists she leave (“What about Miami? They let anybody live in Miami”) which she agree to do. But first she does two things, curses Wooly and burns down the local church. Unfortunately for Jennifer, while laughing a laugh of pure pleasure at the destruction of the church, she is crushed beneath a stone cross that falls from the peak of the spire.

I like Mr. Wooly’s character because he is kind, wise and loyal. Beside that, he was an active man in business and public affairs. 

I often find the difficult situation like in this book, when I should choose one of two difficult choises. Braveness or struggle.

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