Part 3 Reaction

My final opinion on this book is indifferent. I neither liked it nor disliked it and I honestly did not mind reading it. The topic was not at all what I expected though, and so I like that the book took a turn for the unexpected. I liked that the chapter were short and something meaningful happened in all of them; whether it was from Michael getting small crush on some other girl to Hanna committing suicide a day before she is released from prison. Touching on that topic, a lot of people were probably upset at the author for killing Hanna in a moment of hope for change and maybe a good future for her and Michael, but I appreciated the unexpected plot twist. I also saw some meaning in the way that Hanna died because I found a connection with it and the lecture about the generation gaps. Like Michael’s professor, who when he was about to die segregated himself from society and became somewhat antisocial, Hanna did something similar. She took care of herself at first and got involved with other people, but when she realized she was getting old, she began letting herself go and avoiding social interactions until she finally ended her own life. This reminded me of the lecture in which older generations get left behind by the newer ones and so they choose to get away from society and aspects of life they don’t understand so they can die with as little doubts with what is going on as possible. It is like the old cats that want to get away from home when they are about to die. As if she wanted to break all relations with everyone so she would not have an impact when she died. She obviously forgot Michael though. I also liked that the book was realistic in the aspect that the daughter of the dead woman from the church did not just budge to pardoning Hanna for her crimes, but rather took back from Hanna something that was stolen from her in her hardest moments in life.