Brainstorming

When I read the first few chapters in the book, I was confused. The name of the book is not connecting to the plots at all. When I read the chapter that Sister Reed gave Sookan the pearl necklace and the scene she broke, I kind of got some ideas in my mind. Then, when I finished the book, I understand the name of the book in my own ways.

Sookan’s life was continuing gathering. She went to America by her own and she gathered the experience in America, she gathered the knowledge she learned in college, she gathered friends, and she gathered some good personalities. According to the cover of the book, a young girl bended down and tried to gather pearls that was fallen on the ground. In this perspective, the pearls could represent the experience she gathered in a year, or the other important things she gathered during the studying of one year. Pearls are precious. So it might show people that what Sookan gathered was important and valuable. So, it means what she met in her lonely trip to America is life worthy.

Also, it showed her patience to gather small things all together. So, it showed the beauty of her mind. She did love beautiful things, and she cherished those things. Also, people could see her determination when she decided to do something. Even thought it’s hard to gather all the pearls, she would still gather them. It implied her decision that she wanted to stay in America to have her own life instead of listening her sister to be a nun.