Luis Santos Reaction #1

I really enjoyed part 1 of the reader. The story so far has been a very quick read and it is written in a rather colloquial language, making it easy to understand. Even though the story itself is a bit strange, a boy who falls in love with a woman who could be his mother, it has something about it that is very interesting. Maybe it’s the way the author wrote it, or how the narrator describes everything in great detail. Its almost as if I was actually there with him.  The sexual content of the story didn’t bother me at all, in fact I liked it. It made everything more believable. He couldn’t have explained everything in great detail and then just because it was a sex scene, he omits all the details. The only thing that I did not like very much about the book is that so far, there hasn’t really been a climax. Everything seems to go in a straight line with no rising action. Actually, I take that back, Hanna did run away at the very end of part 1 and I guess that’s the start of a rising action. I wonder what will be the climax of the story. Sometimes I think Hanna will end up getting pregnant and the two will have to raise a child together. Then it would be like mother son and grandson as oppose to mother father and son. Another thing I would like to talk about is how the boy is literally a slave of Hanna’s. I understand he is in love with her so he puts on her on a pedestal but he exaggerates. He will legit do anything fo the woman. He will even say he did something he didn’t even do. And then she is always making him read for her. Is she illiterate? Why has she never read anything to him? Does he not wonder any of these things? And does he not care that she didn’t even bother to ask him when his birthday was when he had just asked her when hers was? I hope I find answers to all these questions in the next part of the book.