Blog#1 Summary 

                                   The novel starts on Grand Isle, a summer retreat for the wealthy French Creoles of New Orleans. Leonce Pontellier, a wealthy New Orleans businessman of forty reads his newspaper outside the Isles main guesthouse. Two birds the pets of the guesthouse’s proprietor, Madame Lebrun, are making a great deal of noise. The parrot repeats phrases in english and French while the mockingbird sings persistently. Hoping to escape the birds disruptive chatter, Leonce retreats into the cottage he has rented. Glancing back at the main building, Leonce notes that the noise emitating from it has increased the farival twins play the piano. Down by the water-oaks his four- and five-year-old sons play under the watchful eye of their one-quarter black nurse. Overall I thought this book was alright i probably will be abandining this book.