Luis Santos #3

I ended up enjoying the book. The third part was my favorite because it contained such a big plot twist. I was not expecting Hanna to kill herself. Not even close. I thought she was going to be released and live with Michael. But no. The lady kills herself. I guess she did it because she knew she was not going to be able to adapt to life outside of the prison. I just didn’t understand the relationship Michael has with her once he goes to visit her. I couldn’t tell if they still had feelings for each other. Even though Michael claims thought out the whole second and third part of the book that when he looks at Hanna he feel nothing, why does he think about her so much? And also, why does he read her so many books while she is in prison? He says he doesn’t feel anything for her, but then he does things that suggest he really loves her, and then to top it all off, once she does die, he only visits her once in the cemetery. Why did he only see her one time? And it was not even a visit that he wanted to do, it was a visit that he felt he had to do once he received a letter from the Jewish Organization. I also found it interesting how the author decided to finally tell readers the protagonist’s name with only a couple of pages left of the book. Its as if he finally became a person. He finally became someone once Hanna died. Because while Hanna was a live, we only knew Michael as “kid”. And then after she hangs herself we learn that his real name is Michael. As the story came to and end, I started to feel really bad for Michael. I realized how he had practically thrown his life away. Its like Hanna was his peak. That’s when he was the happiest and then everything when downhill from there. He numbed himself so hard, that he became unable to feel any kind of emotion. His life became somewhat meaningless.