Talk about chewing the fat! If you have never heard of "chewing the fat" it means to gossip. Idle talk is never a good thing. Even if you saw it yourself, it's still gossip. How would you like it if someone was talking about you behind your back? You wouldn't. I'd rather they tell it to my face! Unfortunatly, this is rarely (or never) the case.

 Not all they talked about was bad gossip but the agin, they did talk ill of Mr. Darcy greatly. If someone said such things as he did within my ear shot I would be extemely mad about it. Therefore, I would talk badly about someone as well. Perhaps it's human nature?

 Jane kept to herself her feelings about the ball until she and her sister, Elizabeth, were alone. Then she expressed her thoughts upon the subject.

 At th end of the day I write in my diary or jounal, I pour my heart out! But writing my feelings is never good enough. To really move past something you need a friend who has the ears to listen, not the mouth to blab!

 Jane had her sister, in whom she trusted with the enter most part of her heart. I have my mom and my best friend, in whom I trust with such as that. The enter most part of ones heart (I am still not sure what that really is, I can only feel it, not say what it is) is something deep, deeper than the ocean! All of your sorrow, loneliness, emptiness, pain, love, joy, every kind of feeling imaginable is stored there. It's important to share the things there with someone. Who do you have?

 Mr. Darcy, proud? So it would seem! Pride hurts others first, then it really hurts you. For example; Mr. Darcy was to proud to dance or to even meet with anyone other than his own party. His pride hurt Elizabeth's feelings. How will this hurt him? I think it's somewhere in the middle of the book I won't say what it is, though.

 Proverbs 16:18 says, "Pride goes before distruction, a haughty spirit before a fall." I think of it this way, "Pride goes before a fall. People are often blind and weakend by their pride. If you are full of pride friends become crap, life becomes crap. Pride=crapola!"

 Am I proud? I am in some ways, yes. I am proud of myself when I do something I didn't think I could do. I am proud of my family and friends. But then I also, sometimes, become prideful like Mr. Darcy.

 Prijudice. Yes, it is easy to tell that Lizzy is very prjudice towards not only Mr. Darcy but eveyone! Like Elizabeth, I can be prejudice, too. When I first met this guy last summer I didn't like him at all. I did not want to be friends with him. He talked strange, he dressed strange, he had strange friends, He was just strange!

 But we became friends, he may think I am strange. Heck, I still think he is strange! But sometimes the world needs strange people or life would be boring! Thank God for strange and different people.

 Now we meet the Bennet Girls, Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, and last but not least, Lydia. Jane is quite and thoughtful. Lizzy is loud and loves to speak her mind! Mary being very smart. Kitty follows wherever Lydia goes, we see this later on in the book. Lydia, now she's a character! Wild and a big flirt.

 Ways I am like the Bennet Girls: Jane, I am quite and care for my friends deeply. Lizzy, I can have my moments of being loud! But I don't speak my mind offten. Mary, I think before saying something, I always want to say something meaningful. Kitty, I follow my friends. I go by their example, I really need to work on not being like Kitty. Lydia, I always have a smile on, I love to laugh. I can get wild, at times.

 Mr. Bennet sound like an annoying but loving father. Sort of like the ideal father, that's how he appears to me.

 "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."

 That, by far, is the greatest openning line of a book. Ever! In the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, I think Miss Austen wants her audience to know that marriage was very important, almost as if she knew her book would be read two, three hundred years later  (I don't think this was the case)! Not that marriage isn't important today but back in Jane Austen's time if you had five daughters and no sons then yes, getting married would have been very important. Why? Because women didn't own anything back in the 1700 or 1800s, they just didn't, as simple as that. Men were the soul providers for their families.

 Today there are a lot of single parents out there. Men are no longer the care-giver in the home. Perhaps that's a small part of why our world today is falling apart. God made man, and man was good in the sight of the Lord. God gave man the leading role, not just over his family, but of the earth and of every living breathing thing, human and none human. Adam had the responsibility of a life time! But he need help looking after all that God had created, so God created woman. Woman to be the helper, not the provider. No, that was and is man's responsibility.

 Sometimes we don't want to be told who we should be or who we should marry. I belive we should be our own person, not what other tell us to be. But when it comes to marriage...I'll take some advice form my mom, sure why not? She is smarter than me and with her help I can make her stumbling blocks my stepping stones. But I can only do that with her help.

 Hi, I am Kat but you can call me Lizzy Bennet (I wonder why?).  I love Pride and Prejudice! It is the best thing to ever  be put on paper, and this is coming from a person who hates to read! Yes, I hate to read but I am starting to learn how to enjoy reading just about anything put in front of me.

 The best things to read are mysteries, novels, but mostly the Bible. History is the worst thing in the world, or so I thought. I am learning to take the time to read through a book about history. None of you know me, therefore you don't fully, if at all, understand what that was about. My mother and brother both know! They are history buffs but not me, never me!

 The propose of this blog, I seemed to have gotten off track, is to express my thoughts on the books I am reading. I have a hard time doing this so I decided to write about a chapert at a time. About 15 minutes, or so, ago I started reading Pride and Prejudice (I have seen both movies and have the book on tape) I am taking it very slowly as to take everything in. My mom bought the book for me today! It is rare that I ask for a book, belive me, RARE!

 Ok, so I hope that you enjoy reading my thoughts as I read.