| Book Review | | English 135 | | Book Review | | English 135 | Professor Lisa Shuchter July 22, 2012 Professor Lisa Shuchter July 22, 2012 A good book to me is one that can catch my attention from the first sentence and keep my attention throughout the entire book. I love well written books that I can visualize with as I am reading. I love an author that can use words and phrases to keep me guessing throughout the book, it gives me the urge to want to know what is going to happen next. I want to keep reading to get to the end to fully understand what the author’s purpose is. I love a story that is very detailed because it gives me the chance to place myself in the story and really get into it.
If I look past the fact that a lot of the stuff the main character does annoys me, I actually have to say that this book is written really well and I am enjoying it. The main character, Christopher, is an interesting character that makes poor choices and causes problems, though, the author did a good job creating this character. Quite often I read books and I can’t imagine the characters to be real people, but in this book, there are definite emotions, flaws, and personalities in the characters. I can see myself getting into this book quite well and enjoying the story of Christopher Boone trying to find out who killed his neighbor’s dog. The book is written to look like a boy with a mental disability wrote it, and I believe the author did a great job.
This book was one of my personal favorites because me and the main character, Anne, had a lot in common. Not only that, but everything you explained in this book, you explained with great detail, and it created imagery in my head. I had a good picture of everything that you talked about. For just about the whole story, I felt like Anne, and I felt like I was telling the story. You are a pretty good author.
Still, we have many reasons to believe that the murderer is Casper Grattan. Joel Hetman, Jr. mentions in his statement that his father loved his wife and was very jealous for her. Moreover, we can see in Casper’s statement that he says that he loved his wife and distrusted her, so he wanted to test her devotion towards him. He claims that he saw' the figure of a man going out of their house at night when his wife was supposed to be there alone, and he got very angry. As he continues with his story, he confesses that that night he was the one to strangle the wife, “I strangled her till she died” he says.
The article includes personal accounts of a number of patients and their relatives. They are relevant to show the point that not all of Nitsckes patients are in fact terminal but more like depressed. My overall opinion of the article is that the journalist makes Nitschke sound like all he wants is to sell a quick death even when the patients are not really dying. It also shows me that if we make this legal it would make it easier for people to use it as an excuse for assisted suicide. I found it very useful to get more of an understanding of the potential for
The music is considered as a symbol because it is only heard by Blanche when she is felling low and depressed. The music reminds her of her dead husband Allen. Due to this reason the music is considered as the symbolism of death. The music reminds Blanche of her dead husband because he shot himself right after he danced with Blanche to the Polka music. So every time Blanche gets sad or feels depressed she remembers her husband and hears the music.
Upon reading Susan Wolf’s tragic account of her fathers’ suffering and eventual death, I support the position of assisted suicide. One cannot help but feel sorry for Susan’s father, as well as Susan herself, for the ordeal they both endured. I hope if faced with a similar ordeal, I could handle it with the same
As for family members, the act of killing his wife was “an act of love” on Albert’s behalf. Statistics have shown that male especially are more likely to commit double murder suicide, and their spouse most likely are unaware of their plans. My summation of this double murder suicide is a result of Albert not able to cope with the decline in his wife health. Articles have stated that since her stroke, Sandra has not been herself; Albert visits everyday and instead of seeing improvement, sees the physical and mental decline in his life’s partner. Perhaps it was an act of love, perhaps he did not want to see Sandra suffer he wanted to ease her of her pain and suffering, and like so many before his time, Albert did what he thought was best.
I understand fully the emotional strain on watching a loved one suffer daily, because they are terminally ill. My grandfather had two different types of cancer and six strokes, so I know what it is like to see a loved one deteriorate right before your eyes. For three years, my grandfather was in a paralyzed state, and I could not bear seeing him in that condition. If my grandmother would have sought out physician-assisted suicide as an option, I would listen to her reasons in wanting to do so, and I would probably agree with her choice, because I know that she had his best interest at heart. Although it is morally wrong, I do understand why patients seek physician-assisted suicide as an option, because they feel as though they do not have any other options. Regardless of what society believes or their religious values, people forget about the rights of the terminally ill patient, and the assisting
First, many diseases cause severe pain and suffering, it is cruell to not listen to the patients plea to end their agony. Matthew Donnelly was diagnosed with a rare skin cancer that destroyed him; he lost his nose, his left hand and part of his jaw. All he wanted was to die, however the law didn’t permit it, so he was forced to suffer until his brother shot him to put him out of his misery. No one listened to his cries of pain and there was no way out, the only way was to get someone to shoot him, a much better fate would’ve been euthanization. He would’ve been happier and died how he wanted.