Charlotte Temple 3rd Post

After reading Charlotte Temple it really made me appreciate the time and place that I live in as a woman. I just do not believe I would have been cut out for 18th Century living and survived it. I would have been buried beside Charlotte Temple on my own free will because I believe I would have defied my parents but this is all what I believe I would do due to looking at my situation now and trying to place myself back then. But needless to say I am very lucky to live in a world were woman are not a property to be handed around and noticed occasionally.
Those are my thoughts on how the book affected me and now I would like to go on to say that I really enjoyed this book. At first I did not want to read it because when one reads the back of this edition it gives a brief unemotional synopsis that told the whole story and it just didn’t intrigue me how I wanted it to. But ultimately I was tied into the book like normal and enjoyed reading it.
I really want to read Lucy Temple and I believe I am going to change my paper topic to write a comparative and contrasting paper for Charlotte Temple and Lucy Temple. I think it would be very interesting if Susanna Rowson had similar adolescent themes with both books and after the discussion on Friday I now know that there is some possible incest in Lucy Temple. All in all I believe it will be an interesting read and will be quite enjoyable to write a paper on such sad, dismal but yet uplifting stories.