Blog # 1 E.M

The book Eleven Minutes is a very interesting book with the main character Maria who is seeking love. When she was young there was a cute guy she fell in love and she doesn’t know to react to this things so when the guy asked her for a pencil she didn’t know what to say and she responded in a bad. Since then now on he didn’t spoke to her and then he left the town. Poor Maria didn’t ever see him again and she knew that love wasn’t made for her. “At the same time, she grew more and more insecure in her relationships with boys, and more and more determined to leave the place where she lived”(Coelho,13). By saying this we can see that Maria wasn’t secure with her self time passed she grew older and prettier she was nineteen when she had finished secondary school, found a job in a draper’s shop in where her boss fell in love. She didn’t let him touch her and didn’t let her beauty be threatened. Maria’s mom said, “Beauty, my dear, doesn’t last” (17). Knowing this she knew it good she had her boss in her arms she got a good salary. Finishing two years already there she had gave her parents enough money and decided to go on a holiday. Her boss decided to go with her on the trip and she said know its fine she noticed his eyes and saw the flames of love even though she thought he was only interested in sex it was the exact opposite. This week she wanted to be free and be able to meet her prince charming with a forty-eight hour trip. She met this guy that didn’t speak her language at all. Not knowing how to communicate with Maria he tried and said, “Supper . . . tonight?” Then he said: Switzerland!” (20). Maria was really pretty she knew her own beauty seem to be a threat for her with people that seem to be interested in her weren’t the people for her she wants her prince charming to soon arrive.