I've trusted the wrong people in life. I'm so miserable. I can't even talk about my personal life without someone getting offended or trying to tell me that what I should and shouldn't do in my life. I've vented to the wrong people. Now I know that the only way to get something off my chest is to put it in words in my journal. No one knows my story. No one knows how depressed I am. Honestly, no one cares. I've given sign after sign and people still think I'm okay. No one has ever cared.
I just recently finished "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak. I had no idea what this novel was going to be about going into it; all I knew was that our 10th grade English class study it. Right off the bat I noticed that our narrator was not your average Joe. The narrator is death. When I realized this I said to myself, "Oh this is going to be good." The novel is all about the Holocaust and it is shown from a German point of view. Leisel Meminger's mother gives her away to a foster German family. On the trip to this new family, Leisel's brother dies. So right from the start death is there. I'm not going to give you a synopsis of it, because I think you should read it for yourself. Just know that a German family hides a Jew in their basement for a while, and death is around every corner. That last line of the novel really got me though..."I am haunted by humans."
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