"Baroque Cycle"

Good evening! I would like to write about “Baroque Cycle” and the author Neal Stephenson.

I found it was difficult for me to read this story because the sentence was very complex and each one sentence was long. However, in the class, I could some interesting points in the class. First, I could find that there were some metaphors and similes in the story. I thought that the sentence, “The rope clutches a disk of blue New England sky.” was one of metaphors. The expression, “rope clutches” is very interesting personification, I think.

It was difficult to understand completely whole of the story, so I researched about the author and the story on the Internet, and I tried to find something interesting about the story. The author, Neal Stephenson has brilliant talent for mathematics and history of science and so on. And he has worked as an advisor of a company developing a manned sub-original launch system. He is very learned and talented person.

And I found that the series of the story has some connection with historical events in 17^th and 18^th century when I researched about the story. I also found that Boston Common was actually sold for the Puritan in 1634. I do not have so much knowledge about world history, so I could not understand details. The author’s profound knowledge made the story difficult to understand for the readers who did not know about world history like me. If I knew some background of the real event in Boston Common and Puritan, I could be more interested in this story. I actually realized that historical knowledge was important to be interested in some English literature.