Book Review

  The book Sunflowers by Sheramy Bundrick is a book that reaches into our emotions while reading about the sad love between Vincent Van Gogh and Rachel. Their fated meeting was on a hot sunny day where Van Gogh had sketched Rachel asleep under a tree. Rachel was angry at Van Gogh but gradually she got closer to him and that eventually turned into something other than warming Van Gogh's bed. There was no problem in the relationship between Van Gogh and Rachel, but Van Gogh and his friend Gauguin. This friendship took a toll on Van Gogh's mental state of mind. Gauguin had not liked Arles and constantly made himself seem superior to Van Gogh. During the night Gauguin was going to leave Arles, he had tried to get Rachel to sleep with her. That made Van Gogh snap with the amount of stress he had before causing a fight. This leads to a loss that Rachel knew might have helped Vincent and herself. The constant hallucinations made Van Gogh realize that he can not be alone but does not want to depend on Rachel like he does to his younger brother Theo. It leads him to the decision of going into an asylum. The constant letters and love poured into the letters back and forth tugs on heart strings in empathy for their love. But soon, tragic news reaches the ears of Rachel and she was finally able to leave the brothel. Even though she was able to leave, the one love she had given her love to had died. Van Gogh had shot himself with a handgun all alone in the middle of a field.
  This book is enticing with the vivid details of the hallucinations and the love between Van Gogh and Rachel. The book had discreetly given the image of sex by subtly writing they were in a room together but not describing the details. Sunflowers showed us the difficulties of an unsuccessful painter and how life can be unsuccessful but cheerful things can still be found in life. When Ms.Kaczmarek had given us a description of the book Sunflowers, the book had caught the attention of many, and we were one of many.