The last half of this wonderful book wrapped up Liz's yearlong vacation, which took place in India and Indonesia. After leaving Italy in a happy mood, she goes to India to learn to meditate and collect her thoughts. At first, she struggles as all of her thoughts are cluttered and she cannot get herself to properly meditate. However, after much practice at her Guru's Ashram, she learns to silently meditate and find peace, and that the God she recently encountered is within her own self. After her vacation in India where she establishes inner harmony, she moves on to Indonesia. She lives with Ketut, a medicine man whom she met two years earlier and promised to meet again. She teaches him English, and he teaches her everything he knows. She meets Felipe, a Brazilian man whom she falls in true love with.
Elizabeth Gilbert is an author, essayist, short story writer, and novelist. Eat, Pray, Love is a credible nonfiction text because it describes her own experiences through travelling.
This book is not necessarily important in context because it is simply Gilbert's learned lessons and experiences through her recuperation through travels. It is read by anyone who wants to read an enjoyable book on a woman's journey through different countries and the lessons she learns.
The purpose of this book was to tell her experiences while travelling. The many lessons she learned and her more intimate knowledge of her own self are described.
The text was written for the general public.
This novel contains pathos. When a character falls in love, or Liz remembers her tragic memories with David or her ex-husband, the happiness and the pain that each character personally felt is palpable. Gilbert was able to transcend words with her storytelling, and make the intended emotions easily understood by the readers. "'Beautiful woman, good woman. Always sweet for me. Never once we argue, have always harmony in household, always she smiling. Even when no money at home, always she smiling and saying how happy she is to see me'" (Gilbert 279). This simple, yet amazingly sweet statement from Ketut was able to evoke much emotion. The love that Ketut regards his deceased wife with was able to be felt by the reader due to Gilbert's beautiful reiteration of Ketut's statement.
The author's purpose of telling the lessons she learned through her spontaneous vacations, as well as her search for inner equilibrium in an enjoyable way was achieved. Through her journey in each country, she learned a little more about herself, and she was able to escape the negativity and unhappiness she encountered daily in America. She was able to liberate herself from the bonds she forced on herself and was able to find pleasure and true happiness in simple ways.
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