~Quicksand~

Quicksand was a book based on Helga Crane's life. It tells the story of Helga Crane's life. I found the book very interesting because it brought about a lot of realistic things to life. Helga spent her life trying to find herself. To me, it makes me think about what Janie said in Their Eyes were Watching God. She said, "there are two things in life a person got to find out, they got to find out about love and they got to find out about living." Helga was never living her life because she was so caught up in thinking that everyone was against her. She was very self conscious about who she was. In the beginning, she started off as a very strong and outspoken woman, but towards chapter 4, she had lost all of that drive. The turning point in the story was when her uncles wife told her that she didn't belong there because her mother and father were not married. Helga life portrays a lot of people life in America. Helga was a woman that ran from everything. She was never satisfied with her position in life. When things didn't go her way, she ran somewhere else. That is sort of how things are today, some people run when things are not the way they want them to be. Everyone is trying to find out who they are and what their purpose in life is. Helga went a completely different way about finding out who she was. She made excuses for everyone and even herself. She pushed people out her life constantly. In the end, she says that she is happy. I believe that she was never happy. I feel like she just settled because she was tired of running.