Drops of Gold and Other Things

So going along with my self directed reading plan, I decided to start reading the regency novel Drops of Gold. So far the book is really good. In order to not give too much away for those who want to read it I will draw some parallels I saw within the first few chapters. So it starts off with a girl named Marion who has received a position as a governess at a place called Farland Meadows. She is so excited about it because she thinks that it is going to be this magnificent, cheerful, sunshine-y place. So when she is dropped off outside it she is dancing and twirling and running up to the grand house. That made me think of the Sound of Music where Maria is singing her song about confidence and dancing and twirling as she is going to the house where she will be governess.

 
So I couldn’t find a clip from the movie so the song and a picture will have to do.

In another chapter that focuses on another character, a young man named Layton, I was reminded of the movie Inception. That may sound like a weird connection but it will make sense soon. At the end of one of the chapters about him, the reader learns that he has been having the same dream every time he goes to sleep. In the dream, he is in a house and there is someone crying but whenever he opens a door the room is always the same: empty with cream coloured carpets and blue bed curtains, light breaking through the window curtains. At the end of his dream he is in a room where no light is getting throught the window curtains and there is a candle. He knows he needs to open the curtains in this final room but he can’t, he won’t. Then when he does, he wakes up very distraught.

In the movie Inception Cobb has his own dream “world” that he has set up which are some of his memories that he visits from time to time. The architect whose name is Ariadne joins his dream one night and discovers everything. He takes her to several of his dream memories and in one of them explains to her how he wanted to call out to his children at a specific moment. Even in his dream version of the memory he can’t change it and see what might have happened. He wanted to but could not and would not.

What things make you excited enough to dance around? Maybe you can just think about this one: Do you have moments like Cobb and Layton where you want to do something but you can't or won't?