Megan Beuter Blog Post #1.

The book I read was Impossible, by Nancy Werlin. The book has a total of 364 pages, and I finished the book. The book is about a family called Scarborough. There is a curse on their family and it only includes the girls. The curse affects them between the ages of seventeen and eighteen, during which the daughters must complete the impossible three tasks. If they do not complete the three tasks they will go insane themselves at eighteen and the curse will be passed on to their daughter. The girls must complete the three impossible tasks before their baby is born or they will grow mad after the baby is born. I think this book is interesting because of how the main character Lucy first tries to figure out what is happening, what the curse is, what the tasks mean, and how the tasks could be completed. It is a mystery. You wonder how Lucy will break the curse or if she even will. The author wrote this because she found herself singing the song "Scarborough Fair." When she began to think about the lyrics as an adult, however, she became horrified of the tasks described in the song. She then scoured the lyrics more and came to the conclusion that this man who demanded one impossible task after another must actually hate this old lover. Because if she couldn't deliver the tasks completed she was no "true love" of his. She decided to write a novel around this very song, and difficult though it may have been she turned out writing a truly amazing novel. This was her motivation because I read her "author's note"in the back of the book and she described these ideas. The theme of this book is the song "Scarborough Fair" and three tasks described within the song. The big idea the author was trying to convey is that everything is not as it seems initially. It seems as though in these lyrics the man is just asking these three things of the girl to prove her love to him (because nothing is impossible for love), but after listening or reading the lyrics multiple times you can tell that the man is demanding these impossible things because he does not love his "once a true love" anymore; he hates her. Lucy is the best character. She makes the book. Her reactions to the curse and the circumstances around her tell you what kind of person she is. Lucy makes the connection from me to the book. She handles the situation like I would like to think I would handle the situation. She has changed from the naive girl at the beginning to the girl who has more experience and a husband and daughter to love in the end. "Are you going to the Scarborough fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme. Remember me to one who live there. She was once a true love of mine. Tell her she'll sleep in a goose-feather bed. Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme. Tell her I swear she'll have nothing to dread. She must be a true love of mine. Tell her tomorrow her answer make known. Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme. What e'er she may say I'll not leave her alone. She must be a true love of mine.  Her answer it came in a week and a day. Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme. I'm sorry, good sir, I must answer thee nay.  I'll not be a true love of thine. From the sting of my curse she can never be free. Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme. Unless she unravels my riddlings three. She will be a true love of mine. Tell her to make me a magical shirt. Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme. Without any seam or needle work. Else she'll be a true love of mine. Tell her to find me an acre of land. Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme. Between the salt water and sea strand. Else she'll be a true love of mine Tell her to plow it with just a goat's horn. Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme. And sow it all over with one grain of corn. Else she'll be a true love of mine. And her daughters forever be possessions of mine." This quotation is important because it is what the whole book is revolving around. All the ideas in the book tie back to this version of Scarborough Fair called "The Elfin Knight." My only questions is when was this quote introduced, who wrote this quote originally, and what is it's relevance to the world.