Trust

Name               : Septiyani Wafda         Student’ No: 109014000077                        Class: IVB

Title                 : Trust

Author             : Mary Flanagan

Publisher         : Penguin Books, 1987

No of pages     : 292

        
    When I looked at the cover, it’s not really interested. But the title that make me so curious with the novel. What kind of trust that would tell in this novel and what mystery that would be solved. Then I try to continue read this novel to know what curiosity is.

            The main characters of this novel are, Jason Englefield (a rich man who has a daughter and he was an arrogant and uncompromising artist), Eleanor Linnae (Jason’s ex-wife who wanted her step daughter), Clover Englefield (Jason’s daughter who wanted a freedom) and the last is Charles Bevan (a lawyer, a man who helped Eleanor to get her step daughter).

            The character I dislike in this novel is Jason Englefield because He is an obstinate person. Although Eleanor had asked his permission to meet with his daughter, he never allowed her. Until when Eleanor got an illness, Jason allowed Clover to meet with her for the last time.

            When Eleanor met with Clover is the best moment in this novel. The moment is really touched, because actually Clover also wanted to meet with her step mother but her father never allowed her. Finally when Eleanor was going to died, Clover come to meet her and Eleanor passed away in Clover’s lap.

            The moral value that I got from this novel is don’t be an obstinate person such as Jason in this novel because if you be an obstinate person, you will get nothing in your live. It told in this novel when Jason tried to avoid Clover from her step mother. He never allowed Clover to meet with her mother but finally Clover meet with her. And when Eleanor has got her freedom in her eighteen birthday, he decided to leave her father.