What reflections and connections can you make with this novel?
As I read the novel, a lot of ideas about death flashed in my mind. How would it feel like when you are trapped and are about to be killed? How would it feel like when people look at you as a prey? How would it feel like to know that you are going be chopped into bits and pieces and people who killed you will eat you up? How would it feel like to know that a female is going where your jaw bone as a necklace?
Personally, I would feel like crap. It feels bad enough to see someone dying but to know that you aren’t even going to be buried properly, it would suck.
Since middle school I became more aware of ‘death.’ This one word consisting of 5 different letters scares everyone and personally I hate the word.
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One of the deaths that made me more conscience to ‘death’ was my grandpa’s death. He was the only grandpa that I knew and the only grandpa that I liked. He was my favorite grandpa because he told me a lot of things. He told me that it’s just as important to learn English as to learn Korean. So I did learn English and nowadays my Korean is fading because I don’t use it a lot. He told me over and over again not to smoke and drink as he smoked and drank. He said smoking and drinking were bad habits and I knew he was telling the truth because he died last year. My dad was his older son and my brother was busy studying in the states so I had to help out with funeral stuff and it sucked big time. I don’t want to know how I’ll handle my parents’ deaths.
Anyway, as I read the Peace Child, I started to think about death. A few times, in the past, I was either close to dying or almost dead. Whenever I think of those experiences I want to shut down my brain and not think about them ever. Shutting down my brain would be quite dangerous to do but all those experiences are the ones that will stay in my memory forever like tattoos. Although I wish not to get haunted by those memories, I will be and I can’t do anything about it.
No one wants to die.