Dinner at the homesick restaurant - P 66 - 120

Chapter 3 - Destroyed by love

In 1952, Jenny was seventeen years old and going to be a beauty. Her brother, Cody was away at college. Her brother Ezra had refused to go to the college and started to work in Scarlatti's restaurant. But he was ordered off to a training camp down south. He asked Jenny that she will come to Scarlatti's restaurant, talk with Mrs. Scarlatti and make sure she's all right and Josiah, his friend, too. After Ezra left, Jenny and her mom lived in the house alone. According to Ezra's letter, Jenny came to Scarlatti's restaurant and talked with Mrs. Scarlatti. Then, she came to Josiah and realized that Ezra gets out of the army and he want to open the restaurant where people come just like to a family dinner. Cody wrote that he was being interviewed by several corporation and he wanted a job in business after he finished school. Ezra wrote that he should be a soldier. Their mother seemed to relax somewhat. Jenny didn't tell her about Ezra's restaurant. After that, Jenny looked in on Josiah again, and in the third time, Josiah invited her to come his home and have supper with his mother and him. After the supper, they walked and came back Jenny's home. In the porch, he kissed her on the lips, then she kissed him back, then her mom's voice broke over them, she didn't want her to neck with a dummy Josiah. So she didn't see him again and they had split the city between them. Ezra come back home with the reason that the army wasn't his style. By the time, Jenny reached college, she'd grown to be the beauty that everyone predicted. Meanwhile, Cody had become a success-shot ahead through several different firms and Ezra still worked for Mrs. Scarlatti. Late in Jenny senior year, she felt in love. This was Harley Baines, genius. Next year, he'd be at Paulham university, outside Philadelphia and doing advanced research in the field of genetics and Jenny too, she had just been accepted by its medical school. When exams began, she came to him with her genetics notes and asked if he could help her study. They sat out-doors in the grass on a bedspread. After they done, Harley help Jenny to fold the spread. Suddenly, he stept forward, flipped the spread around him like a hooked cloak and wrapped her inside its darkness and kissed her. It was unskillful kiss anyhow, too abrupt. After her last exam, she knew that he came back home without graduation yet. Then she received his letter some days later, he said he want to marrige her. She came back her mom's house and met her mother, Cody and Ezra. They have the family dinner in the Scarlatti's restaurant. Ezra said he will be a new full partner of this restaurant with dollar. But his mom was upset when she heard that and she didn't want to have dinner anymore. After Jenny's mom left, Jenny walked to home and she came to the fortune-teller's and ask the lady that she should get married or not. And the lady said "Married" and if she doesn't, she will be destroyed by love. Then Jenny married Harley in August. After that they took the train to Paulham university, where they rented a small apartment.

My opinion:
Now I can understand the tittle. Why the author named this story "Dinner in the homesick restaurant". I think Ezra will give us a surprise. I know why the tittle talk about the dinner in the restaurant. But i didn't know about "homesick" yet. Why the author talk about "homesick"? Can you guess it? I can't. In this chapter, Pearl's children become adults and all of them have good lives. They sastified with these. But their mother didn't sastified about Ezra's job. She want him to become a professor but he didn't. Jenny is a good girl and has a good husband. The story is more and more exciting and I like it. It's not hard to read. I think I can finish it 2 or 3 weeks later. Thanks for your attention. Have a great weekend.