A review by ben_martizz
The Broken Wings by Kahlil Gibran
5.0
Gibran's writing is so rich and poetic but not too indulgent in the beauty of poetry. His prose bear weight that transcends a message of pain and sorrow but also the calm and lightness of love and loving.
The story is just tragic and sad but surprisingly I did not feel like I needed to cry or be anguished, the story was just plain depressing.
It showed the reality or rather realities of women by a single woman named Selma. Selma was robbed of her life and her lover due to her position as a woman and had enslaved her to selfish and abusive high position religious men who when disobeyed shamed will bestow upon his father and her, and she loves his father very much.
I do find the father somewhat dismissive to Selma's suffering due to his cowardness to say no to a power-abusive man, but I do get why he chose silenced rather than fighting but still at least he could have tried.
The portrayal of love here, in this book, was just as beautiful as Gibran's prose and I have nothing much to say about it since my adoration of it is enough to convey what I think and so is to the depressing parts.
The story is just tragic and sad but surprisingly I did not feel like I needed to cry or be anguished, the story was just plain depressing.
It showed the reality or rather realities of women by a single woman named Selma. Selma was robbed of her life and her lover due to her position as a woman and had enslaved her to selfish and abusive high position religious men who when disobeyed shamed will bestow upon his father and her, and she loves his father very much.
I do find the father somewhat dismissive to Selma's suffering due to his cowardness to say no to a power-abusive man, but I do get why he chose silenced rather than fighting but still at least he could have tried.
The portrayal of love here, in this book, was just as beautiful as Gibran's prose and I have nothing much to say about it since my adoration of it is enough to convey what I think and so is to the depressing parts.