Authors Note: This is a cause/effect piece about the book The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane demonstrating that I have a clear understanding of how cause/effect effects a story.
“Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.” When Edward Tulane, an expensive china doll bunny, leaves his owner to set out to find the meaning of love, he doesn’t realize how difficult it’d be to expose his heart. He left his owner for distinct reasons-- he didn’t think he belonged ;he wants to figure out what it feels like to be loved. He never thought that he’d have such a hard time overcoming being in love.
The climax begins when he goes on a journey to find what he considers as love. He meets three people: an ill little girl, an old fisherman, and a toy store owner. The old fisherman makes him understand what being appreciated means but unfortunately he becomes separated from him. When he meets the ill little girl he finally falls in love with being this girl’s doll. But tragedy strikes and she dies from her severe sickness, he loved her but in the end “nothing gold can stay.” But if he had never loved her as much he did, he might have accepted the death of little girl.
Not only does the death of the little girl effect him, it also caused him to never feel that passion towards another. He finds himself in an old worn toy store, where he sits with his soul crushed. People came in and bought him but every time he was sold he was returned. But he didn’t care at all--he missed the love from the girl.
Although the effects of Edward’s behavior caused him to be distressed, this story is a classic love and despair. This book reminds me a lot of the story Romeo and Juliet for the reasoning that in the story the main character Juliet is in denial of losing her beloved. Similar to The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, because Edward is very effected to the little girl’s death kind of how Romeo felt when Juliet supposedly died. And if they both wouldn’t have fallen for their significant other’s love, it wouldn’t have changed their lives so dramatically.
Even though Edward didn’t get to experience love for a prolonged time,he still was able to figure out the true meaning of passion and devotion. And if he hadn’t put himself out there he would’ve never gotten to fall in love and be happy for the amount of time he did. So overall, I think that involving himself with the young girl really affected him in a life changing way, he learned how it felt to belong, and feel truly loved.
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