Buddenbrooks 5

The Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann Posted by Luka Ilic date: 27 of February 2013 Due to the time, I had to stop reading and get on with my book project essay and creative part. Now in the story, slowly everything is bringing down from the climax. The Buddenbrook family came to the bottom of the social and moral pyramid. Thomas Buddenbrook, the head of the family, who provided the family with all goods, wealth, and riches, has died in a slow and painful death. He was suffering of severe dental problems which has infected his nervous system which caused death. Thomas was buried two days after in the family grave where his mother father and sister. Everyone is in serious depression in the house of the Buddenbrook family, just like the the house which was empty, dark, gloomy, and dusty, with old furniture that once had been in possesion of a well known rich German family, the floor would squeak when would it be stepped on it. Portraits of the old Buddenbrook family are hanging staring at you with distinctive stares full of anger and power of one time that had passed a long time ago. On all of this mourning and depression, the Buddenbrooks will suffer now again. Hano, Thomas's son gets tuberculosis which unfortunately he dies after only 5 days. Again the town of Lumbreck will be gathered on the old town's graveyard at the Buddenbrook grave, burying the youngest member of the Buddenbrook family. The stile and the language in the book is very complex. From this book I learned many new and complex words. If you believe me I had to read with a dictionary right next to me where I would be searching every minute a new word. The author uses a lot of details and a lot of dialogue with a lot of detail that goes into the most smallest details that slows the book and makes it (for me) boring. However, the plot of the book is extremely interesting, but between every important event there is a huge amount of unneeded detail and dialogue. I think that the author did it this way so he can somehow take us in this world of the Buddenbrooks and its time period which is situated in the first half of the 19 century. The book includes very small details like the color of Gerda's dress, or the embroidery on a handkerchief, or the type of candles lit on the family dinner, or the de3sign of a teapot. These were some examples of the smallest details from the book. As I have said the language is very complex, it includes old English language like Thy, Thou, Ther, etc. It reminds me of the language from Shakespeare stories.