My Thoughts about The Goldfinch

Note :
Well, this isn't a review or an essay or anything serious, just trying to share what i'm feeling - when and after - reading it. 

Hi,

Sooo, i just finished reading The Goldfinch 2 days ago and right now i'm still in the withdrawal mode. can't move on to another book, just keep coming back to goldfinch, keep reading and reading and reading my favorite part for the past 2 days. (Mostly back to the part when Boris in it.)

The Goldfinch is a story about Theodore Decker's life after his mother died because of the bombing. The accident that changes his life, his future, himself, to depress and hollow (?) person. I mean it's like he left his soul at the museum like he also died along with his mom at that time.

and life keeps beat him down, turned their back on him, mocking him, testing him every time he found his life is getting a little bit better. When he was finally getting comfortable with the Barbours, his dad coming back and taking him away to the Vegas. When he finally found his place in Vegas, life beat him in the face, dragging him out from Vegas and Boris, his very best friend. Like what Boris said; "If suffering makes noble, then he is a prince".

As much as i like Theo, my love is only for Boris. As he is always lighting the mood, makes Theo more, what is the correct word to express it, more lively? more attached to the world? Because whenever Boris with Theo, he could make Theo more 'Theo' not just the Theo he showed to anyone, even to Hobie or Pippa, Theo always keep himself alone, but with Boris, he's different. They have their own world, their own language. He showed his emotions, his flaws.

and you know what, the only time i cry was when they are parting away, i'm not even cried at the part Theo finally realize that his mother will never come back or when he leaves NY (i mean that part is really heartbreaking, it hurts me but not as much as that night in Vegas) that part is my favorite and also the part that i hate so much!!! i can't ?>$%$#ygas16fs92-i3kjdhq

Boris has the big impact on Theo's life as much as his mother to him. (and of course, Theo has the very big impact on Boris's life. ) Not to say about the drugs, but more to his way to see the life. Like how he took Russian class, learn Russian and how at the end of the book, he always paraphrase Boris. How he asked advice from Boris about his relationship with Kitsey and his love for Pippa.

Another favorite part is when Boris conclude about the picture, when he said; "Well, wouldn't all those dozens of other paintings remain missing too? Forever maybe? Wrapped in brown paper? Still shut in that apartment? No one to look at them? Lonely and lost to the world? Maybe the one had to be lost for the others to be found?"

At that part, i thought that phrase also could be applied to Theo and Boris, to Theo and Hobie, to Theo and Pippa. I mean, the accident made Theo lost his mother but he found Boris, his very best friend. He found Hobie, who lead him to the antique world, and he found Pippa, whom he loved the most. Maybe Theo had to lose his mother for him to find them.

and I couldn't imagine what Boris gonna be if they never met, i mean, living in Vegas with abusive father, never settled always moving, never have a best friend to talk with, Boris is as lost as those pictures.

I can't wait to finally see the movie, hope that the movie will be as good as the book! I already love the casts,  Ansel Elgort will play as Theo, Aneurin as Boris, and the best part is Finn Wolfhard will play as the young Boris! I already picture him as young Boris, thin, pale with long and black hair, sly, full of surprise, dramatic, gosh!! i love him! I can't wait to hear him talk in ukraine and russian and the ukraine accent.

Well, it's time for me to end my rant about The Goldfinch and also my time to say goodbye to this book, to Theo and Boris.

Goodbye! до побачення!


xx,
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