He treats the brunette abysmally from the moment he meets her, and yet, at the end of the book, there she is taking off her pants for him. He has some embarrassing interludes, and it is clear when they were still together that Ariel was troubled by Shaughnessey's presence.

Pete names her Ariel and teaches her how to talk, how to read, and how to survive in a world in which a unicorn horn has become a highly prized commodity. Something I find fascinating is that the edition I have certainly doesn't show Ariel on the cover - it comes across as a gritty urban post-apocalyptic fantasy: crumbling edifices, fire, random hub caps, and a sword. I thought it was amazing that no matter how many different perspectives in which I read a poem of hers, they would still be far from her intended one. Kids can "swim" with Ariel micro doll and explore her cave, wander into Ursula's mysterious lair then visit Prince Eric's library on the surface. Ariel by Sylvia Plath is a book of poems dominated by the idea of death, suicide and sadness, which, unfortunately, seems to be what you would imagine was on Plath's mind at the time, as she soon ended her time on this earth (hopefully an ending she did not regret).Elm; a two paged insight into life, the pure horridness of it, of this, what we're all doing now, just… living, though we do not all see life in this life we must notice some people do, and try to understand why, which if you really look into it, is not the hardest thing to do, one line from this poem really shows the true sad beauty of its meaning, to me at least, and anybody who has the sense to realise this small truth: "I have started the atrocity of sunsets. The mermaid saves the prince from drowning, after other mermaids mesmerize the sailors into crashing their ship onto the rocks.

I'd heard good things about Ariel and really wanted to like this book, but itJRRT was NOT a huge fan of skyscrapers (not that there were so many when and where he lived, but I think it's a safe statement given what I know about his personality), and his Two Towers were worlds apart, not side by side.