The Hour Of The Star Figurative Language

You know those breathtakingly beautiful movies where after you watch them you just want to sit there and take it all in? The ones that really hit you and leave you thinking about everything. This book affected me like that.

The Hour of The Star by Clarice Lispector is a book that leaves readers with conflicting thoughts on what life is all about. The story looks at the philosophical viewpoints of existentialism and absurdism through narrations of Rodrigo S.M. However, this brief, strange, and haunting tale is really the story of a girl, Macabea, who is so oblivious to the fact that her life is awful that it almost gives the book a comical sense.

You know the saying “don’t judge a book by its cover”? Well don’t judge a book by its page count either. The complex writing style of Lispector makes each page a novel in and of itself with its plethora of figurative language and complex ideas. It is not a book you can skim through mindlessly for entertainment, but rather one that challenges your analytical skills.

This book is an elaborate, fictional novel that tells multiple stories; rather than following one storyline, the book actually has three. The first is the story of Macabea, the heroine. The second story is the narrator talking about his writing, and writing craft. The third is the narrator talking about his life. These different storylines have no definite beginning or end and can often confuse the reader if he/she is not paying close attention to the