Hello again, and today is Thursday, January 24, 2013. I'm going to start this out with a question; What's the saddest book you've ever read? Its hard to split it down to one, having those stories where the sadness is a theme and is built up and the books where the author hits you with a sucker punch of misery. For me, it would be a tie between two books; Shel Silverstein's “The Giving Tree,” and Orwell's “Animal Farm.” I find “The Giving Tree” so heartbreaking that I literally cannot think about its plot without watering in my eyes. The story of someone that takes everything but the one being taken advantage of still shows love is depressing because you see how people take advantage of others. In “Animal Farm” there is more buildup and huge sucker punches in the form of one scentance paragraphs that carry the weight of twenty. The fact that the punches still are strong even if you know that they're coming shows the power and sorrow placed on each word.
As always,
ZenMercury,
Keep calm, and please say what you think are the saddest books are.
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