PART II (Task # 34- connect to a character who is most like you)

Heaven Can Wait is a novel about true love. It is absolutely fantastic, unique, cute, and unusual and with ending that no one could predict. This is one of the only books that has made me laugh and cry that I hope will someday get made into a movie that I can watch over and over again. It is about being with a person forever and ever and doing whatever necessary in order to do that. It has sad elements and also suspense and an identifiable and real main character.
Right from the beginning, I already got trapped into the world of the main character, Lucy. Cally Taylor did a great job in creating the kind of character we can all relate to that I was able to connect with her character straight away. That for me is a sign that the book is a winner.
I couldn't stop welling up and getting a lump in my throat when she described how much she misses Dan and laughing when she did and said silly things. Lucy is kind hearted, loyal and funny and that's why she is a loveable character. As I was reading the book, I can really see part of myself to her. I saw Lucy's traits in me; daft things she said, using wrong words and making silly mistakes. Lucy Brown is a likeable character and you really want to know what happens to her then. In the first chapter of the book, I then noticed that she is like me, prefers to list all the tasks to be done. I noticed her being a left- brain dominant as she listed her tasks for that day, just entailing that she is a planned and structured type of woman. And in the following chapter, I observed that she easily overreacts even when gently teased as a result of being so stressed. With this, I got to relate with her that much. Whenever I have so many things in mind, I easily get blown up and irritated. More so, not to forget to mention, she has also a melancholic temperament, fond of keeping things which brings memories and so sentimental. I am really like that of person, to the extent that I even still keep a wrapper of a fudgee bar from a special person of mine. Just like how she kept the cinema ticket on their first date. She is also that sincere and faithful lover which I find myself to be also that one. Unable to suspend reality, unable to accept a lifetime's separation from her soul mate, Lucy decides to become a ghost to be with Dan once more rather than go to heaven and be parted from Dan forever. Because of this, I got to imagine how Divina would love her fiancé soon.
However, the only thing that I found myself not to be the same with her is that of her being a liberated type of woman. This is not to be a doubt because she grew up in a liberated country as well, that is far different from the culture of the Philippines where I grew up.