Journal Entery

Date: October 19, 2007

Entery Number: 10

Page/Quote reflecting on: Pg. 55

I find it interesting how Esther relates the story of the Fig Tree to her own life. The story was a lot cuter than Buddy's and her own story and imaginary fig tree but it's a symbol. The story was about a nun and a Jewish man who would pick figs off a fig tree together until one day when they saw a baby bird hatch and the backs of their hands touched. The next day that nun didn't come back to pick the figs but a different mean nun came out and picked them. "We had met together under our own imaginary fig tree, and what we had seen wasn't a bird coming out of an egg but a baby coming out of a woman, and then something awful happened and we went our separate ways." Esther had liked Buddy for five years before he started to look at her and the more he looked at her, the more and more she saw things she didn't like about him. (That's kind of where the lady and the baby came into play. But then she saw Buddy for who he was and didn't like him anymore because he was a hypocrate.) If you think about it enough and have actually read the book, it makes sense with the whole fig tree.