the world according to garp by john irving

He writes a feministic book and from that day he daily receives threatening letters. This incident makes him realise how bad and unfair the world is. When he is a witness of a rape he's very mad and he wants his second child to be a boy too because boys are not as vulnerable as girls in this world of anger and violence. Garp gets involved in a world of women, of feminists. She becomes rich and starts helping women in trouble ( for example the women of the Ellen James movement). Since then she is an example for a lot of women and for feminism, she is involved in politics and hated by a lot of men. When Jenny's book, The Sexual Suspect, becomes a great success her life changes a lot. At that moment Garp decides to become writer. The moment where Helen says she'd only marry a wrestler if he's a good writer too. In my opinion that is wrong because Garp is a human being and he's perfectly capable of making his own decisions in his own life. She wants to make choices for him, she doesn't want him to get involved with girls or other people that may have a bad influence on her son. I dislike the fact that Jenny wants Garp to be a perfect child (when he's young). I hate that because I wanted the story to end good, this is very sad because Helen has already lost one of her sons and now she loses Garp and Jenny. I dislike the end of the story, first Jenny dies and later Garp get killed too. The sad thing of this accident is the fact that Walt, the youngest son of Garp and Helen dies and Duncan, the other son, loses one of his eyes. For example: when Helen gives Michael a blow job in his car, Garp crushes the car and Helen bits off Michael's penis. I like the way humour and sadness are used and being alternate in this book, all the things that happen are told in a very realistic and sometimes very funny way.

The world according to garp by john irving