Helen Fielding's First Published Novel example essay topic

Analysis of Helen Fielding " cause Celeb By Linda EskengrenIntroduktion and Aim Cause Celeb was Helen Fielding's first published novel, but most people know her as the author of Bridget Jones's diary. Fielding main character is always a woman, who wants to be strong and self independent and have troubles with her love life. This book tells the story about Rosie Richardson who leaves her fast-track job in London to do good in the refugee camps in Africa. After four years, when the locusts and starvation gets to bad she returns to London and her sophisticated social circles that she hates.

She persuade the celebrities come to Africa to raise money for the starving people. This becomes the 'Cause Celeb' of the title. My aim with this analysis is to try and understand why Helen Fielding has written this novel? And if there is a message and if so what? AnalysisCharactersThe main character in the novel is Rosie Richardson who is a publicist at a London publishing house. She describes herself as a literary whose main job seems to be to attend parties looking appropriately pretty.

At one such event she meets Oliver Merchant, a hotshot television personality who appears to be a drunken cross between Charlie Rose and Warren Beatty. It is never sufficiently clear why Rosie is so drawn to Oliver. He treats her hideously and he lets his assistant call her to make and break of their dates. They have a stormy on and off relationship through the book. Most of the characters who we meet in London are celebrities that circles around Rosie's and Oliver's relationship. These people only cares about their fame and fortune.

The characters we meet in Africa are aid workers, they try in the best way they can to help the starving and suffering refugees. In the end of the novel we meet Dr. O'Rourke who is the answer to Rosie's dreams. Settings There are two main settings in this book one of them takes place in London. This is were we first meet Rosie and get a glimpse of her hectic lifestyle. It is because her life in London she decides to go to Nampula in Africa. There are big differences in the settings London is grey, cold and superficial.

Africa is dry, hot, dusty and welcoming. Even though Africa is a hard land to live in, England is much more difficult, it is the this we take for granted that makes life there hard. Time This book can be a bit confusing in the beginning, because the story starts four years ahead of time in Africa. Then the next chapter goes back four years in time when Rosie still lives in London.

The chapters in the book jumps around until they in the end close up together. I have never read a book who is written like this before. But I think this makes the book even more interesting to read because it is hard to guess what is going to happen in the next chapter. A strong episode In this part of the story Rosie is in Africa and everything is just as bad as it can get in the refugee camp. The food and medicine shipment are late, Rosie cant get any answers one when it will arrive. They really need food in the camp now when the locusts are ravaging.

And they need to show the Un how bad it is but that means that someone have to go to Kefti and check it out. But the problem was that the only ones how could take them there was soldiers form the Kef tian People's Liberation Front, who were not aloud to go there. And another problem was the road to the boarder was used to be full of mines there might be some left and they had to watch out for air-raids and ambushes. They decided that they had to go any way to see for them selves and to take pictures on the devastation. One their way to Kefti Rosie and Dr. O'Rourke followed the KPLF truck with the soldiers and their interpreter Muhammad, he were only suppose to ride with them until they got to the danger zone so that he could speak with them.

But suddenly Rosie and Dr. O'Rourke heard a boom and he hit the breaks. The KPLF truck had hit a mine. Everything was a mess but they could at least save Muhammad who luckily only had lost a leg the four soldiers were dead. They were only a few miles away from a town called Adi War. The next morning they started the walk to the town they could hear planes from a distance so hey took shelter. When the plane was gone they continued to walk.

They took Muhammad to the hospital, Rosie thought that it was her fault that he had lost a leg but he told her that he did not care this was a war. A leg more or less did not make him a better person he could still have a normal life, this was the way Allah wanted it to be. I think this is one of the strongest parts in the novel, he does not care about how he looks in other eyes. If the same thing should happen to me or someone else we would be devastated. This part of the novel really shows that it is not important what other people think about you, or what you think they think about you. Conclusion Helen Fielding has produced documentaries for Comic Relief in Ethiopia, the Sudan and Mozambique.

So there is no surprise that she can write a novel about this matter as well as she does. This book was first published in 1994 ten years after the phenomena of Band Aid and Live Aid. Some people put together world known artists who recorded a Christmas song about starvation in Africa (it is called "Do they know it is Christmas?" ). The money they raised on this song went food and medicine for the starving people in Ethiopia.

Some of the artists even went down there. This is the same thing the heroine of the novel does she takes advantage of her old lifestyle. These events helps the people in these countries but just for a couple of month. I think this is what Helen Fielding wants us to think about. This is not suppose to be a way for celebrities and people to ease their own consciences. Starving and troubled people needs help all the time.

I do not think she wants everyone to go down to Africa and help out after reading this novel but be aware of the problems there are down there.

Bibliography

Fielding, Helen, Cause Celeb, London: Picador, 1999.