Book Review | Fanny
II MA English Class Today
Fanny Praiselin began her review by showing us all her copy of Sidney Sheldon’s Tell Me Your Dreams, and then she foregrounded her concerns on issues relating to Multiple Personality Disorder - a mental health condition wherein a person exhibits traits of two or more separate personalities.
Over to Fanny –
Well, Dissociative Identity Disorder or Multiple Personality Disorder is a kind of disease or a mental health condition that is not spoken about very often in the public domain.
A person suffering from such a disorder is affected by a split personality!
There are three main characters in the novel -
Ashley - an introverted workaholic,
her coworker
- Toni Prescott, an extroverted singer and dancer,
and their
third coworker - Alette Peters, an introverted artist!
All three fall in love!
When they go out, five mysterious murders take place – and all of them have an identical pattern to them.
Evidence also strongly points towards the same woman having been involved in all the murders.
Surprisingly, Ashley is identified as the serial killer and she is subsequently arrested.
It is then revealed that, the three women are in fact, three selves of the same woman who has been suffering from multiple personality disorder!
I chose to review this book because I wish to emphasise on the fact that we all have demons from the past; however, only when we open up, we can try and exorcise those demons of the past from off our lives!
At the same time, we should also be empathetic listeners to such people who have this MPD on them.
When I was in my third year UG here at MCC, I had a friend who called me up to talk to me about her problem. But it was highly unfortunate that I couldn’t attend her call then.
Three days later, I heard the news that she passed away – she had committed suicide.
That news haunted me much. It led me into a kinda depression as well. It took me sometime to come out of it.
This incident made me go deep and probe into the issues connected with depression.
We can make a great difference by the love we show to others.
I want to do this in my life!
As students of literature, we are much more powerful than a psychiatrist, because we have lived through the lives of so many characters in the vast stream of literature, signed off Fanny.
Teacher’s Remarks: Fanny, you are a real revelation! Hats off to you on choosing a book that resonates with a real-life personal incident. Your review was intense and had us all spell-bound from start to finish!
In short, you literally tugged at our heartstrings - of all of us - your ardent listeners in class today!
The awesome ovation from your classmates that impulsively followed in such quick succession, the moment you were done with your delightful review, is an added vibrant indicator to that!
You simply rocked the floor today Fanny.
Keep up the good work!
Thanks a bunch to Jean Elizabeth Mathew & Preethi for the wonderful snaps.
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