DADDY by Danielle Steel

PART I

REFLECT
I am really amazed to every character of the story. Most especially to Oliver who has faced the hardest part of the story. He has responsibilities of their children because his wife, Sarah, left them. Though it’s hard to let his wife go, he accepted it with all his heart because it is the only way to make his wife happy. And for Sarah Who have been married to Oliver for 18 years decided that the time has come when she needs to put her family to one side and to follow her dream to study leaving the children in the care of their father to study for a Master's Degree at Harvard. Though there are lots of trials, but at the end it surprised me because Oliver found a new girl that could make him happier than with Sarah. The story has inspired me a lot.


CONNECT

I am very thankful to have a complete family. So, I really treasure them all. Maybe someday I want to have family different from this story. I want to have complete and happy family. I have classmate who has no father. Actually, she doesn’t know her father. I seen her everyday and I always saw her happy but I know deep inside its very painful. What makes it more painful is that she was very insecure to the children who have their father. Because of this missing one, her life became miserable.  So for me, I don’t want my future children will experienced it because I know it will be very hard for them. I hoping and praying it will never happen.


QUESTION

I wonder why Sarah left her family though her husband spoiled her a lot. What if Sarah continued the abortion?  How could he accept the fact that his wife left him? How hard for him to accept the responsibilities left by his wife. I would find it hard also that because of Sarah's disappearance it worsen   the lives of her children especially to her oldest son Benjamin who became a teenage dad. I wonder why he didn’t left his children.


PREDICT

I concluded that if Sarah didn't leave Oliver it would not trigger their family in trouble. And if Sarah will come back soon they can still keep their family unbroken. And I think if she continues the abortion she is now successful like Oliver. But then, it’s a sin. I do believed that Oliver truly love his children because despite of pain and hurt he still want his children to be happy. I think facing the reality that his wife left him will be a step forward to a new hope. Finding another girl will help him a lot to forget his painful past and face the bright tomorrow. Then at the end Oliver made a right choice of choosing Charlotte to become his wife; who loves Oliver more than her career as an actress.

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Part II 

• What I most wanted to happen was Sarah will be staying with her family and accomplishing her dreams together with her family.
• What I really liked was when each of the three men started a new life in New York and then in Los Angeles with his children. After facing the biggest problem in their life, Oliver met a woman that would change his life.
•  What irritates me most was the most interesting characters within the framework of the story are those that appear from nowhere outside of the main framework of the story. Some of the character in the story is frankly boring. The son, Benjamin showed a little bit of independent character within the book, and the grandfather, George Watson seemed a very sad characterization and probably bore more resemblance to how a reader would see an old man of seventy, though neither really stood off the page more than the main character of the story which is Oliver.
•  What surprised me was when Sarah left Oliver. I never thought she would come up with the decision of leaving her husband and her three children just for her own happiness.
• What I admired about the character was when Oliver took the responsibility of taking care of his children when Sarah left them. I know it was very hard for him.
• What I really don’t like was when Sarah left Oliver and her children. It causes trouble among her family.
• What bizarre me is that you can be happily married to someone for decades and then, after his or her death, be happily married to another person and call it love. The idea is extremely unromantic.
• What I've realized was it is not an assurance that if you were together for the longest time, you will be together forever. Like in this story they've been married for 18 years but in the end they are now in separate ways.
• What I hated about Ben was he made the life of his father even worst because of his anger. At his young age, Ben is now a father.
• What made the main character’s life became miserable was first, his wife lift them. Second, his sons are angry with him and they made troubles. Last, his mother diagnosed to have an ill.