Overall, I liked the book. I thought it had an interesting and unique plot that was different from the rest of the books we have read. I kind of did not expect for Hanna to take her own life. I feel like it was strange that she spent all this time imprisoned and when she was finally given a chance to see the outside, she took the chance away from herself. I don’t know why, but I suspected her to make a bigger comeback in Michael’s life.
Now having read part three, I think that the numbness that Michael describes experiencing in part two was never really there. If he was truly as numb as he described himself as being, he would not have gone through the trouble of finding Hanna an apartment, much less continue sending her recordings of himself reading books aloud, an activity that was very intimate and important for them while they were together. I think that had she not committed suicide, Michael would have probably tried to start something with Hanna again. Maybe it would not have been romantic, being that Michael is sort of deterred by her “old” appearance, but some sort of relationship nonetheless.
When I think about it, I don’t find this story to be any worse than anything else we’ve read in class. It’s strange that it had to be asked whether people were comfortable reading this or not because you could have asked that very same question before reading any of the books we read. We weren’t asked, “Are you ok with reading about a rape scene?” before The Kite Runner; we weren’t asked, “Are you ok with being told that within you have horrible, evil thoughts that are so disturbing you don’t even admit them to yourself?” before Notes from the Underground.
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