Rosemary's Baby Book Report

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A Book Report about Rosemary’s Baby By: Ira Levin

Patrick John V. Sampaga Engl. 212a w/ CAI/ TUE 10:30 – 12:00 March 17, 2009

Submitted To: Mr. Orlino D. Rabago Instructor

Table of Contents

Introduction

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Subject

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Setting

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Main Character

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Plot

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Turning Point

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Conclusion

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Introduction:

The main reason I chose this novel is because I am a big fan of horrorsuspense-mystery type of movies. This novel caught my attention and I began reading it. The novel is entitled Rosemary’s Baby a 1967 best-selling horror novel by Ira Levin. It is considered as one of the modern-day horror and I, myself can prove that it is really terrifying and chilling. Once you begin reading it you can’t keep on turning on the pages. It induces you to believe the unbelievable. The suspense is beautifully intertwined with everyday incidents. The author, Ira Levin was born and lives in New York City. At an early age, he became fascinated with magic and quickly developed love for theater. He liked detective stories and began to acquire mystery books. He also became fond of Anagrams. In his adulthood he had written many books that became international bestsellers. He is a two-time winner of the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Allan Poe Award and also received the Horror Writers Association’s Bram Stoker Award for lifetime achievement. He published a sequel titled, Son of Rosemary in 1997. He died on November 12, 2007 from a heart attack.

Subject:

The book centers on Rosemary Woodhouse, a young woman who with her husband Guy, a struggling actor, has just moved into the Bramford, an old Gothic style New York City. In that place they experienced many weird things that affected and changed their whole life. The author tries to deliver something that a person cannot easily believe. Weird things happened around us, there are legends that until now are unexplainable. Do ghosts, UFO’s, witches, vampires and zombies really exist? Are they with us? Just hiding and waiting for the right time to reveal themselves. Ira Levin was such a brilliant author, taking these things as the subject matter. It was hard to make people believe in anything. But he did it perfectly. I can say that the subject of the story is what most people are afraid of. He used this subject for us to face it and to tell us somehow that they could exist.

Setting:

The story took place at one of the Victorian apartment in Bramford a medium-sized village just to the west of Ipswich, Suffolk and in the Mid Suffolk administrative district, between the years 1970-1972. The map of Bradford:

Main Characters:

ROSEMARY WOODHOUSE She is a housewife, young, healthy, blissfully happy. She is a very passionate and strong wife; she is smart on dealing with problem, understanding. She can be considered as a perfect wife. GUY WOODHOUSE He is an actor, charismatic and ambitious. He is a hardworking husband, but sometimes numb and self centered. He appeared on stage plays, commercials and does a lot of work on radio. EDWARD “HUTCH’ HUTCHINS He is a 54 year old English man. He’s smart and very nice to talk with. He’s an author. He acted as a second father to Rosemary. He treats Rosemary as his own daughter and even send it to college. MINNIE CASTEVETS She is the wife of Roman and the Woodhouse’s neighbors. She is an old woman about the age of 68 or -9. She has a massive hips and thighs and a wide bands of fat. She is smart and friendly. ROMAN CASTEVETS He is the husband of Minnie. A tall and shuffling man around the age of 75. He is a good husband to Minnie. He is very hospitable to visitors and loves to tell stories of his own life. He is like a second father to Guy.

Plot:

Guy and Rosemary already signed a five-year lease on a five room apartment on First Avenue when they received a news that a four-room apartment in Bramford is available. The apartments here are known for their fireplaces and Victorian detail which happens to be their dream home even before they get married. Because of this, they think of ways to cancel the lease contract they already signed. Luckily they succeed and get the chance to get the Bramford. To their excitement, they immediately visited the apartments in Bramford. They are toured by Mr. Micklas. He described every contents of each room in the apartment. Each has a four-room, having two baths and five closets. Also each has enormous kitchen and master bath. Every description that goes out of the mouth of Mr. Micklas makes Rosemary very happy. Mr. Micklas informed them about the previous tenant Mrs. Gardenia who passed away just a few weeks ago because of coma. Some of her furniture are still in the apartment and can be bought optionally by the new tenant. The room is situated on the seventh floor having the name 7E. It has four rooms divided into two with a narrow central way. The first room on the right was a kitchen. Rosemary was giggling because it was a large one. It had a six burner gas stove with two ovens, a mammoth refrigerator, a monumental sink and a dozen of cabinets. Opposite the kitchen was the dining room but Mrs. Gardenia used it as a greenhouse. She is growing herbs inside this room. Rosemary examined the room and smiled because it would accommodate the nursery room she had imagined. The second room to the right is the living room and it has a small fireplace which makes the couple even happier. A large bathroom was situated beyond the living room. To sum it up it was a marvelous apartment that fits the preferences of the couple. After the tour, Rosemary convinces her husband that they should lease the large, fashionable apartment although it is expensive. During a dinner invitation with their friend Edward "Hutch" Hutchins, he warned them of the apartment building's bad reputation for witchcraft and cannibalism over 50 years earlier. Hutch was very concern about the couple

and tried to talk them out that the Bramford was a danger zone having many unsavory happenings. Hutch shared them creepy stories that involved the Bramford. It’s where the Trench sisters conducted their cannibalism. It is also the place where Adrian Marcato practiced witchcraft and killed by a group of people. In 1959 a dead infant was discovered in the basement wrapped in newspaper. The couples just ignored it and believed that those things don’t exist anymore. They changed topic and enjoyed their dinner. The next day Guy and Rosemary signed a 2-year lease on apartment 7E at the Bramford. They are told that they could take occupancy of the apartment at an earlier time. So they began to move into the apartment and unpack a few of their possessions. To brighten up their new abode, the interior of the apartment is painted, decorative wallpaper is hung, and new carpet is laid. Rosemary, like any other wife is very fond in interior designing. They bought a sofa set, a king size bed, some decorative ornaments and an air conditioner. As a reward to what they have accomplished they decided to make love. They both undress and began kissing. Since the day they heard the story of Hutch, Guy would always tell a joke about the Trench sisters or Adrian Marcato. Rosemary was a little bit frightened when he first visited the basement’s laundry room. She even remembered what Hutch told them about the dead infant found in the basement. She met Terry Gionoffrio which is also a tenant in the apartment. Terry resembled Victoria Vetri, an actress. She often got mistaken for Victoria but she doesn’t see the resemblance. Terry is rooming with the Castevets on the 7 th floor. The basement was a fearful place for them that gave Rosemary the creeps. Terry displayed her mysterious, smelly and noxious good-luck charm filled with tannis root to provide protection. It was given to her by Mrs. Castevets. Terry describes her admiration for the wonderful childless couple that took her in as their ward. She was picked up off the sidewalk by the childless couple and treated her as their own daughter. At first she thought they wanted her for some kind of sex thing but it turned out that they are like real grandparents. She’d be dead or in jail if it wasn’t for them.

One evening Guy and Rosemary would hear a weird chanting through their flowery wall-papered wall in their bedroom. They thought there was a celebration happening in their roommates flat. One Friday night after watching a play with two other couples, they confront a bloody, unexpected scene outside their apartment building. Terry has suicidally jumped from a window and met her gruesome death on the street. Out of the darkness the two elderly neighbors, Roman Castevets in a red, pin-striped dinner jacket with red bowtie and a grotesquely-dressed Minnie stride. According to Roman, Terry’s death was inevitable since she was deeply depressed these passed three weeks. This was the first time the couple met their two elderly neighbors. They express their sympathy and condolence. That night Rosemary suffered from hallucinatory nightmares of her Catholic school upbringing and frightening visions of the accident. A few days later, Minnie paid a visit. Rosemary didn’t expect the visit. Minnie was a friend of Mrs. Gardenia and was shocked with the changes the couples did with the interiors of the whole room. Rosemary told her intrusive guest that she has a nursery and was planning to have a baby. Minnie was very happy upon hearing it. She then invited the couple to come over their flat and join them for supper. Guy returned home for lunch after being passed over in a Broadway audition for an acting part and agreed to attend the Castevet’s dinner engagement with Rosemary. They are served with vodka blush drinks by their host. Roman boasted his world travel which got Guy’s attention. During their conversation, they talked about the Pope’s impending visit and fatuous religiosity. The arrival of the Pope was uncertain because of newspaper strike. Rosemary was a bit offended and mentioned her Catholic upbringing. Roman stressed out his point that anyone don’t need to have respect for the Pope because he’s only pretending that he’s holy. The dinner talk then turned toward Guy’s acting career and methods. Roman praised him and thinks he’s very authentic. After returning from home, Rosemary observed how the Castevets strangely removed their pictures from the wall, leaving only hooks and clean spaces. Hutch was left alone with Roman.

The next evening Guy visited next door to hear some of Roman’s stories. Minnie introduced to Rosemary their 12 th floor neighbor, Laura-Louise. During their conversation, Minnie gave Rosemary a tannis root charm-the one worn by Terry. Rosemary didn’t like the odd smell of the charm. When Guy returned, he proposed Rosemary to wear it, but Rosemary just placed it inside a jewelry box. In an unusual circumstance, Guy soon acquired an acting role. The actor who had been chosen over him for a key role in a play is unexpectedly and suddenly got blind. Guy remarked that it was his instant success. Guy had changed since the day he had taken his new role. He now became self-centered, vain, pre-occupied and self-absorbed. Guy almost forgot that he had a wife due to his absence because of many rehearsals. Rosemary was very sad and depressed because Guy did not have enough time for her. But still she understands him, he’s an actor and that’s normal. One day, Rosemary arrived and found a bouquet of red roses placed throughout the house. Guy apologized for being a creep. Then, he abruptly proposed for them to have a baby. Soft music playing on the phonograph, a cozy fire in the fireplace, and a candlelight dinner served as a prelude for an evening of love-making. Minnie interrupted them and brought a strange dessert for each of them-two tall white cups filled with chocolate mousse topped with whipped cream. After a few bites, Rosemary detected a chalky undertaste and quitted eating, but Guy insisted that she have more to have respect and to remain neighborly. While he was changing the record, she scooped out the remaining mousse into her napkin to discard it. Later that night, Guy watched TV with live coverage of the Pope mobbed by crowds at Yankee Stadium. Rosemary became dizzy and disoriented after eating some of Minnie’s chocolate mousse and putted in the bed. In a hallucinatory scene that impersonated a black mass, she imagined being on a mattress drifting on the ocean, and then as a passenger on a presidential yacht. A John F. Kennedy transformed into an older man who points out to the sea. Rosemary asked a passenger later why Hutch, who is left on the dock, isn’t allowed to board. She’s told because he isn’t catholic.

Guy completely undressed her until she is shivering and naked. She saw images including the Birth of Man paintings on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, a typhoon at sea, and a naked descent into the hold of the ship where fire burns. Rosemary was laid on a mattress. She is surrounded by many chanting, naked figures, including Guy, Roman, and Minnie. A bloody-red liquid is painted on Rosemary’s bare chest. A person resembling Mrs. John F. Kennedy descended a staircase and suggested her legs to be tied down in case of convulsions. Attendants spread her legs apart and binded them. In her dream-like sleep, Guy began making love to her, but then his appearance changed into a beast-like figure resembling the Devil, with yellowish ayes and clawed scaly hands. He stroked the length of her body with his hairy claw. The next morning, Rosemary questioned mysterious scratches on the side of her body. She is appalled that Guy admits making love to her while she passed out-supposedly for mixing alcohol. She told Guy that someone inhuman was raping her in her dreams. Guy’s behavior reverted again, and he was distant and pre-occupied. Guy remarked that her expected period was due on Friday. Shortly afterwards, Rosemary visited her gynecologist/obstetrician Dr. Hill for a blood/pregnancy test and was informed that she was definitely pregnant with a due date of June 28th. Overjoyed by the expectation of a child, Guy ran next door to inform the Castevets. They burst into the apartment with a wine bottle to congratulate Rosemary on the good news. Minnie insisted that she see their recommended upper-class obstetrician, Dr. Abe Sapirstein, instead of continuing to see Dr. Hill. That night, Rosemary laid awake, contemplating a name for her baby and began to wear the tannis-root brooch. In the office of Dr Sapirstein, he advised her against reading books or listening to friends due to the fact that each pregnancy is unique. To keep her further isolated from traditional sources of sustenance and commercially-sold vitamins, he also suggested that she drink a daily, herbal mixture concocted by Minnie Castevet that will be fresher and safer, and more vitamin rich than any pills on the market. According to Minnie, its ingredients are raw egg, gelatin, herbs and other things. Rosemary started to feel the fears and

anxieties of most pregnant young women as they approach childbirth and experience hormonal changes. She suffered sharp pains and wonders if she has an ectopic pregnancy. Sapirstein explained the pains as a natural expansion of the pelvis. More symptoms appeared-she became pale, got blotches under her eyes, have difficulty sleeping and loosed weight- confused and tormented by her pregnancy. She developed an appetite for very rare steak meat. One day Hutch visited them, he was shocked and worried about her declining health and weight loss. Pregnant women gain weight they don’t lose it. Rosemary explained her belief in natural ingredients for pre-natal care. She wanted everything fresh and natural. She showed the skeptical Hutch her tannis root good-luck charm around her neck. He believed the awful-smelling substance in the charm is more like mold or fungus of some kind and vowed to make some research about the root. Rosemary introduced Hutch to their strange neighbor Roman Castevet. They both noticed his pierced ears and piercing eyes. Rosemary explained how the Castevets are close to Guy and have become parent figures for him. As Hutch left, he can’t locate one of his gloves that he put in their closet when he arrived. Later he called and made a rendezvous with Rosemary at the Time-Life Building in downtown Manhattan. At the appointed time the next morning, it is unusual that Hutch doesn’t appear. A phone call to his apartment revealed that Hutch was taken ill and in a deep coma at St. Vincent’s Hospital. At a New Year’s Eve party held in the Castevet’s apartment to brought in the new year of 1966, Rosemary discussed her physical condition with her doctor. It’s like there’s a wire inside her getting tighter and tighter. She is introduced to one of the many elderly guests-Dr. Shand, a famous dentist who made the chain for her charm. Rosemary was paranoid about what is happening to her-while ravenously eating chicken livers in her kitchen, she spied her reflection in a shiny toaster and vomited into the kitchen sink. Inspired to surround herself with their younger, energetic circle of friends, Rosemary planned a Saturday night party to entertain young friendsMinnie and Roman are not invited. It’s gonna be a special party. Visitors should have to be under 60 to get in. When Minnie learned of the party, she

attempted to invite herself, she is denied-and Rosemary affirmed the rejection by dumping Minnie’s concoction down the sink. At the party, guests commented that Rosemary has a chalk-white face and looked a bit tired. Rosemary confided in her girlfriends about her abdominal pains and her fears. She’s so afraid the baby’s gonna die. They suggested replacing her ineffectual doctor and see Dr. Hill. Pain is a warning that something isn’t right. Rosemary blurted out an affirmation of her Catholic training. She won’t have an abortion. After the guests have left, Rosemary rebelliously informed a flabbergasted and angered Guy that she will return to Dr. Hill, her former gynecologist/obstetrician, after receiving advice from her girlfriends. She decided not to take any of Minnie’s drink anymore instead take vitamin pills like everyone else. An argument flared up between the young couples about her proposed visit to Dr. Hill. As they fight, the pain unexpectedly stops in Rosemary’s womb, and she felt movement for the first time, forgetting about her determined resolve to visit a different doctor and dismissing her fixation that she is carrying something unnatural in her womb. She happily told Guy about its moving and kicking. It’s alive. She prepared the nursery for the child with fresh wallpaper and a white crib and rocking cradle. Three weeks from the unexpected delivery date, Rosemary packed her hospital suitcase for her trip to the hospital. Then, she received a phone call that Hutch has tragically died. After the burial ceremony at the cemetery, Rosemary was handed a book from one of Hutch’s friends, Grace Cardiff. She was told that the title of the book was Anagram. Back at her apartment, before Rosemary can even open the brown-paper wrapped, unmailed book/package from Hutch, Minnie delivered the daily concoction. Rosemary finds privacy to slit open the twine-tied package. The book is titled “All of them Witches”. One section of the book is underlined-it regards the discovery made by Hutch about the tannis-root. In their rituals, they often use the fungus called Devil's Pepper. This is a spongy matter derived from swampy regions having a strong pungent odor. Devil's Pepper is considered to have special powers. It has been used in rituals and worn on charms. Another chapter is about Adrian

Marcato. Born in Glasgow in 1846, he was soon after brought to New York. He became interested in Black Magic. Soon, he left England and devoted himself completely to Satanism. The peak of his popularity was in 1899 when he claimed to have called forth Satan and was attacked by a mob outside the Bramford. A dog-eared page illustrated a picture of Marcato with his wife and thirteen-year old son Steven. Rosemary contemplated the truth of it all. She retrieved a Scrabble board game and used the game letters to spell out ALL OF THEM WITCHES, arranging them into COMES WITH THE FALL, ELF SHOT LAME WITCH, and HOW IS HELL FACT ME. Suddenly he opened the book and saw the word Steven underlined. She spelled out STEVEN MARCATO and gradually figured out that an anagram-repositioning spells ROMAN CASTEVET- the son of Adrian Marcato. When Guy returned, she told Roman is the son of a famous martyred witch. She even showed him the picture of Steven Marcato when he was thirteen. According to the book, Steven was born in 1886 that makes him 79 now. No coincidence. Rosemary deduced that the next-door Castevets and their friends have formed a ritualistic congregation of witches, and that her unborn baby’s blood will be used in their rituals. The parties with the singing and the flute and the chanting those are Sabbaths. They use blood in their rituals and the blood that has the most power is the baby’s blood. And they don’t just use blood, they use the flesh too. Rosemary convinced Guy to sub-let and move out. Guy claimed that they are only old people. He doesn’t believe Rosemary and removed the book from her shaky hands and placed it high on a bookshelf. During Rosemary’s next visit to Dr. Sapirstein he listened to her fantastic findings. He prescribed some pills for her final few weeks of pregnancy and divulged that a terminally-illed Roman together with Minnie was planning to leave New York to visit a few of his favorite cities during the expected time of her baby’s birth. As they leave for Kennedy Airport for a trip to Europe, Rosemary bided her cheerful, well wishing neighbors goodbye. Later, Rosemary discovered that guy has disposed of Hutch’s book without her permission, arguing that he didn’t want her to upset anymore. Clues begin to piled up for Rosemary. She tossed her tannis root charm into a

sidewalk sewer drain on her way to a bookstore to purchase and read tomes on witchcraft. Many people during that time died supposedly natural deaths. Since then it has been determined that the United Mental Force of the whole coven could blind, deafen, paralyze and ultimately kill the chosen victim. The use of a United Mental Force is sometimes called a coven. She felt menaced by the neighborhood’s coven of witches that she thought want her baby for their strange cannibalistic rituals. She also read that in some cults, it was believed that a personal possession of the victim was necessary and spells cannot be cast without one of the victim’s belongings. She telephoned Donald Baugmart, the blinded, embittered actor whose disability enabled Guy to secure his acting position. Cleverly, she got him to admit that following drinks with Guy, Baugmart’s tie was deliberately traded with Guy’s-the actor personal possession was later used to cast the deadly spell. Rosemary hurriedly left her apartment with her hospital suitcase and rushes to see Dr. Sapirstein in his office for an unscheduled visit. While in the waiting room the talkative office receptionist off-handedly mentioned that Dr. Sapirstein also wore a smelly tannis root charm-marking him as a member of the witch’s coven. Rosemary frantically excused herself and walked to a corner phone booth where she placed a call to Dr. Hill. She explained her present doctor isn’t good. It was lying to her and gave her unusual kinds of drinks and capsules. In a paranoid, she requested that she deliver her expected baby in the next few days. After begging Dr. Hill for an appointment, he reluctantly agreed to an 8:00 pm office visit. That evening in Dr. Hill's office, Rosemary explained how her husband Guy was integrally involved in the coven's plot. She told him how he lied to Dr. Hill about them leaving the city for Hollywood, and now slept in pajamas to hide a suspicious mark of coven membership. The tormented mother rambled incoherently about her fantastic suspicions that her next-door neighbors hold rituals, and that her husband participated with them . They're very clever people. They planned everything right from the beginning. They probably made some sort of deal with Guy. They gave him success and he promised to use their baby in their rituals. Rosemary shared what happened to Donald

Baugmart and EdwardHutchins and even the tannis root. Rosemary sighed when Dr. Hill apparently concurred with her assessments and suggested admitting her into Mt. Sinai Hospital that evening. While she lied down to rest in an adjoining office, he purportedly makes calls to arrange for her hospital admission. Rosemary was rest assured because she is in good hands. But Dr. Hill phoned Dr. Sapirstein and Guy explaining that she is experiencing mental breakdown and normal pregnancy hysteria. Dr. Sapirstein and Guy are brought in the room, they instructed Rosemary to come with them quietly and don’t make any scene otherwise they will be forced to take her to a mental hospital. In the apartment’s lobby, she escaped up the 7 th floor. Already in a frenzied state and feeling betrayed, she immediately went into a labor in the hallway before locking herself securely. She is wrestled on the bed and given a sedative shot to calm her down. Following labor and birth of a boy, she gained consciousness and is soon told by Dr. Sapirstein that the baby died at birth because of delivery complications. It was in a wrong position. Dr. Sapirstein might have been able to do something about it if they were in a hospital. Rosemary reacted hysterically, she doesn’t believe it and accused everyone of being a witch and stolen her baby. Guy attempted to convince Rosemary of her temporary insanity and their promising future together in Beverly Hills, California. He wanted her to stop on accusing him as one of the covens and just rest and get over with it. Guy promised her that from this moment everything will be roses. His career is going up. Paramount and Universal is within an inch. She suspected the truth about her kidnapped baby later that night when she heard a distant sound of a crying infant through the wall in the Castevets next-door apartment. Ironically, she is expected to express breast milk and continue taking sedative pills while closely watched by Laura-Louise and Mrs. Gilmore. Late one night, Rosemary sneaked into the Castevets apartment through the closet passageway with a kitchen knife upraised in her hand. There, she found a coven of witches including Guy, surrounding a black-draped baby cradle to pay their respects. It is a presentation of the

Adoration of the Satanic Magi with visitors coming to view the baby from all parts of the globe. A framed portrait of Adrian Marcato hanged above the fireplace. Mrs. Gilmore and other women belonging to the group of coven restricted Rosemary told her to go back to her room. Rosemary was not surprised of the group, her suspicions are right all along. The Castevets are there, believing that they were on a tour. She walked slowly over the cradle to see her baby in the bassinet. Her eyes widen in terror because the baby’s eyes were golden-yellow, with neither whites nor irises, with vertical black slit pupils. Rosemary felt sorry for his baby and then she is told the truth. She realized that she was impregnated by the Devil and the baby is her offspring with Satan. Later on they praised Satan. Rosemary was in a state of shock and noticed her baby has claws and tail. She remembered her dream that something unhuman was raping her, it’s not a dream it really happened. Out of all the women in the world she was chosen by Satan to be his wife. They don’t force Rosemary to join their coven, they just want her to act as a mother to the baby. Rosemary rejected the devil-worshipping coven but accepted the reality of the situation and showed an instinctive mothering role and maternal instinct toward the baby. Rosemary gently rocked the child to sleep. Others gather around to watch, praising them both.

Turning Point:

Every couple suffers from relationship problems. Rosemary and Guy argued many times. Career and Time was their common problem. Guy was not able to budget his time with his wife and his career. This developed a gap between them. Rosemary understands Guy, he was an actor, it’s only normal. Rosemary needs to adjust. This problem did not last, with Guy romantically asking Rosemary to have a baby. Rosemary’s loneliness was now turned into happiness because she really wanted to have a baby. Pregnancy came in and another problem arises. Rosemary was told to drink the weird concoction of Minnie. Her pregnancy was very hard, experiencing pains in her stomach. Her health was very much affected with this problem. When Rosemary stopped taking Minnie’s concoction the pain in her stomach suddenly stopped. When Hutch died, Rosemary was handed a book entitled ALL OF THEM WITCHES. At the time Rosemary read the book, suspicions emerged. She suddenly understands all that was happening to her, to her husband and to their neighbors. She believed everything that was in the book. Eventhough others did not believe her, she still hold on to what she truly believes. Finally, Rosemary delivered her child but it was taken from her. They made her believe that it died due to delivery complications. She was locked up in their apartment. She was very sad but she didn’t believe anyone of them even Guy. One day she sneaked into the Castevets apartment and there all of her questions and suspicions were answered. Their neighbor was truly a coven of witches. They used her to bear the son of Satan. Rosemary just accepted the situation but never joined the group.

Conclusion

I highly recommend this book to everyone. This novel was very great. You wouldn’t expect what would happen. It’s full of surprises and revelations. Anyone will enjoy reading it and would feel the same fright that I felt when I read the book. One thing I learned from this novel is evil can wear the most innocent face of all. We have to be careful of trusting a person. Sometimes what we see from the outside is different from the inside. We would never know it until they do something wrong to us or to our family. I get really hooked on this book. It has a splendid story and the transition of story was really great. The aspect that really appealed me was the recognition and revelation of the whole truth. It made me feel so crazy and I was very surprised. I felt sorry for Rosemary, she was a victim and fooled by all. Also, the part where Rosemary read the book that focused on the Anagrams. The characters are likeable. I love all their roles and its relationship to the story. Ira Levin was a magnificent author. You cannot expect what he is thinking of. The story was fast paced. The transition was somewhat fast but not too slow.