Muhammad Thaqqif novel #2
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Novel #2
Name: Muhammad Thaqqif bin Zulkhibri
Class: 2 Al-Biruni
College
number: 13137
THE
VARIOUS FLAVOURS OF COFFEE
By
Anthony Capella
The
Various Flavors of Coffee” is more historical with some romance. Robert
Wallis changes as he matures and just as the initial chapter of the book
promises us. There was much about him in his youth that I didn’t particularly
care for. He drank, he took drugs, he visited prostitutes, he didn’t want to
work and frankly was looking for the easy way out. Yet as he says, none of this
was illegal then and much was treated as normal for him as a man and as an
artiste. Strange that as the restraints of the Victorian Age were cast aside
for the bawdiness of the Edwardian Age, Robert becomes more circumspect. The
various flavors of coffee can be likened to the various flavors of love. Robert
loves three women – three very different women. One used him, one stayed his
friend and one became his lifelong love.
The
construction of the Wallis-Pinker coffee codifier was fascinating. The letters
Robert writes home on his way to set up a coffee plantation in Africa were
hysterically funny. His adventures once there are fascinating yet this section
ends up being extremely shows the differences between Hector and Robert. As
well the bits about slavery vs being a company employee in debt for life were
very obvious. The women in this novel was described a hopeless inadequates if
they are not serving Castle Coffee or taking care of the ‘ring around the
collar’ of their family’s clothes.
This
story was ended by when Robert return to London and he learned about the true
love is actually is as rich, mysterious and perplexing as the magical flavours
of coffee.
