be yourself
Just imagine, what if suddenly we were told by our parents that we actually have twins that are currently being unknown. Surely we would shocked and tried to meet with our twins.
Title: The Missing Rose
Original title: The Missing Rose
Author: Serdar Ozkan
Translator: Rosemary Kesauli
Publisher: PT. Scholastic Press
Matter: May, 2009
Thickness: 221 pp.
Just imagine, what if suddenly we were told by our parents that we actually have twins that are currently being unknown. Surely we would shocked and tried to meet with our twins.
This is experienced by Diana, a young woman law student final level of the intelligent and beautiful. He lived in the city of the Metropolitan, San Francisco with her mother.In the event that he was never short of material, her popularity is everything, so he did everything possible so that he acquired many friends, won praise, and popular campus environment.
But behind the success he achieved, there is one thing she had sacrificed, that is his goal to become a writer. According to the opinion of those people around him become a lawyer certainly faster famous and popular than being a writer. This is what makes him suppress his desire. The need is to get popularity and praise from his friends take precedence. He must fulfill the wishes of his friends in order to be accepted among them, gradually he felt uncomfortable not being able to be himself.
Once when his mother died of illness, Diana read a letter written by his mother to himself. Through the letter was then known that he actually has a twin sister named Mary who lived with her father since her parents divorced when Diana was one year old. In the letter his mother wrote that Mary is now in danger and asked Diana to find and rescue her.
There was no hint whatsoever in seeking Mary in addition to the letters addressed to his mother Mary. And that's not an easy thing because of all the letters sent to his mother Mary did not always include the address of the sender. In his letters told Mary only longing to meet his mother and his journey into a rose garden in Istanbul where he learned to speak with roses. Talking with roses? Was Mary crazy? That is what makes worry Diana, let alone in a letter revealed Mary's desire to commit suicide.
Concern about the safety of his twin brother, and the last message from her mother made Diana determined to find his twin brother. Armed with that letter, Diana tried retracing Mary's journey up to Istanbul, where Mary learned to speak with roses. This journey will take him on a later unexpected discovery that will also take him to the discovery of his true identity that has been lost because of always doing what others want in order to pursue its popularity.
Diana's journey to find his twin brother in the story above is contained in the novel The Missing Rose Turkish writers, Serdar Ozkan. Although a first novel, this novel became an instant best seller novel and has been translated into various languages of the world.
The Missing Rose got a good appreciation of the readers for this novel is beautiful, touching and evocative awareness of the reader will search for identity. If we read this novel, we will see that the style is almost similar to berututur Ozkan inspirational Brazilian novelist, Paulo Coelho.
Not many characters that appear in this novel, so readers are invited as to focus more on the story of Diana's quest to find his twin brother. The most interesting part of course when Diana arrived in Istanbul, where he finally found Zeynep Hanim, her rose garden owners who had taught Mary to speak on roses.
How pleased Diana when it is known that his return to Istanbul is very precise, because Zaynep Hamm said that he had received word from Mary who also plans to visit the rose garden at the time. While waiting for the arrival of his twin sister Diana was doing the same thing Mary had done, he learned to listen and speak on roses.
In this section the reader will be taken on philosophical dialogues are full of meaning. Guided by Zeynep Hanim, Diana tries to learn from the roses. He was aware that what he did to pursue fame and received praise from others to make himself unhappy for not being himself.
Diana is now understood that being himself is the most special and happy in the life of every person. Unfortunately during the time he did not understand it. To achieve the happiness he always need other things such as attention, praise, or anything that could make him special. During this time he could not live if no one admired him so that he became Diana in view of the 'other', to the extent that he pressed biggest dream to become a writer in order to quickly gained popularity and preferred environment.
Thus finally the Diana story in the novel is indeed in the end will arouse our consciousness, without us knowing it might be the journey of life and the ideals we are no longer based on what we want, but what other people say.
Is something normal and humane if we expect to be admired and accepted by the people around us, but it should not be a blind obsession so that we become so worried that the behavior and the ideals we make our shunned by others. As a result we had chosen someone else's life for us, not we who choose our own way of life but someone else. Is this normal?
Let us hear what Rose said about him:
Become a rose means 'independent'. That is my existence does not depend praise of the Other and I'm also not going to disappear if they do not like me. Do not false arrest; I also liked the crowd. I want them to visit me and inhale wangiku. But I just wanted it so I can share keharumanku. (P. 167)
Title: The Missing Rose
Original title: The Missing Rose
Author: Serdar Ozkan
Translator: Rosemary Kesauli
Publisher: PT. Scholastic Press
Matter: May, 2009
Thickness: 221 pp.
Just imagine, what if suddenly we were told by our parents that we actually have twins that are currently being unknown. Surely we would shocked and tried to meet with our twins.
This is experienced by Diana, a young woman law student final level of the intelligent and beautiful. He lived in the city of the Metropolitan, San Francisco with her mother.In the event that he was never short of material, her popularity is everything, so he did everything possible so that he acquired many friends, won praise, and popular campus environment.
But behind the success he achieved, there is one thing she had sacrificed, that is his goal to become a writer. According to the opinion of those people around him become a lawyer certainly faster famous and popular than being a writer. This is what makes him suppress his desire. The need is to get popularity and praise from his friends take precedence. He must fulfill the wishes of his friends in order to be accepted among them, gradually he felt uncomfortable not being able to be himself.
Once when his mother died of illness, Diana read a letter written by his mother to himself. Through the letter was then known that he actually has a twin sister named Mary who lived with her father since her parents divorced when Diana was one year old. In the letter his mother wrote that Mary is now in danger and asked Diana to find and rescue her.
There was no hint whatsoever in seeking Mary in addition to the letters addressed to his mother Mary. And that's not an easy thing because of all the letters sent to his mother Mary did not always include the address of the sender. In his letters told Mary only longing to meet his mother and his journey into a rose garden in Istanbul where he learned to speak with roses. Talking with roses? Was Mary crazy? That is what makes worry Diana, let alone in a letter revealed Mary's desire to commit suicide.
Concern about the safety of his twin brother, and the last message from her mother made Diana determined to find his twin brother. Armed with that letter, Diana tried retracing Mary's journey up to Istanbul, where Mary learned to speak with roses. This journey will take him on a later unexpected discovery that will also take him to the discovery of his true identity that has been lost because of always doing what others want in order to pursue its popularity.
Diana's journey to find his twin brother in the story above is contained in the novel The Missing Rose Turkish writers, Serdar Ozkan. Although a first novel, this novel became an instant best seller novel and has been translated into various languages of the world.
The Missing Rose got a good appreciation of the readers for this novel is beautiful, touching and evocative awareness of the reader will search for identity. If we read this novel, we will see that the style is almost similar to berututur Ozkan inspirational Brazilian novelist, Paulo Coelho.
Not many characters that appear in this novel, so readers are invited as to focus more on the story of Diana's quest to find his twin brother. The most interesting part of course when Diana arrived in Istanbul, where he finally found Zeynep Hanim, her rose garden owners who had taught Mary to speak on roses.
How pleased Diana when it is known that his return to Istanbul is very precise, because Zaynep Hamm said that he had received word from Mary who also plans to visit the rose garden at the time. While waiting for the arrival of his twin sister Diana was doing the same thing Mary had done, he learned to listen and speak on roses.
In this section the reader will be taken on philosophical dialogues are full of meaning. Guided by Zeynep Hanim, Diana tries to learn from the roses. He was aware that what he did to pursue fame and received praise from others to make himself unhappy for not being himself.
Diana is now understood that being himself is the most special and happy in the life of every person. Unfortunately during the time he did not understand it. To achieve the happiness he always need other things such as attention, praise, or anything that could make him special. During this time he could not live if no one admired him so that he became Diana in view of the 'other', to the extent that he pressed biggest dream to become a writer in order to quickly gained popularity and preferred environment.
Thus finally the Diana story in the novel is indeed in the end will arouse our consciousness, without us knowing it might be the journey of life and the ideals we are no longer based on what we want, but what other people say.
Is something normal and humane if we expect to be admired and accepted by the people around us, but it should not be a blind obsession so that we become so worried that the behavior and the ideals we make our shunned by others. As a result we had chosen someone else's life for us, not we who choose our own way of life but someone else. Is this normal?
Let us hear what Rose said about him:
Become a rose means 'independent'. That is my existence does not depend praise of the Other and I'm also not going to disappear if they do not like me. Do not false arrest; I also liked the crowd. I want them to visit me and inhale wangiku. But I just wanted it so I can share keharumanku. (P. 167)
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