Prompt #9

 

India vs. Indonesia : The differences 

In India, Elizabeth Gilbert has hope. Excluding the frustration during some meditation practices, her inspiration to become a happier person is still apparent. Her tone continues to be a positive one while she begins to accept the matter of her upset, however, still inhales a negative conduct. Let me explain: Elizabeth Gilbert has had this mentality throughout the novel. Her awakened and acknowledged state of mind clashes with her hopeful and passionate aspiration to heal. A step of this process was accepting the relationships with her two men back in the United States. Gilbert writes " I invited my ex-husband to please join me on this rooftop in India. I asked him if her would be kind enough to meet me up here for this farewell event. Then I waited until I felt him arrive. And he did arrive...."(186)

This clash is presented in each chapter, and as a mater of fact, each page. But as we enter Indonesia, this tone shifts. The two sides of the clash begin to work together for the better. Each aspect becomes balance and the awareness of heeling is embraced. Elizabeth Gilbert learns more about her self if these 116 pages than she does in both Italy and India. She uses her spirit and her gifts to learn that helping others is just as important as helping herself. Through the medicine man, she learns the act of healing. She has found a balance that blows through the words on the pages. Her passions become stronger and her happiness flies through the roof. This is the result of her spiritual awakening. Her tone from the beginning of the novel to the end has changed greatly. She has learned who she is and what she is meant to become in life, she has embraced the misfortunes of her relationships and learned to let go, and lastly, she has learned that she is her own leader, and in order to change, she must find it within her self. Elizabeth Gilbert was in a liminal state while in India. She was between an awakening and a healing process. The result would be Indonesia and what she could do with her new being, but she had to get through the four months of frustration and devotion in India to get that pot of gold.