Mercy by Jodi Picoult

Recently I just started reading the book “Mercy” by Jodi Picoult. This book is about a man who turns himself in for killing his own wife because she was dying of a terminal illness. I only just started reading this book so I don’t have that much information but what I know is kind of a big deal.

On one hand the first thing that comes into your mind when you hear that someone killed their own wife is that’s such a terrible thing to do why would anyone ever do that. On the other hand the man Jamie sort of did it out of love. It sounds insane but he loved his wife more than anything in the world and she was dying and he couldn’t bare to watch her die of this terminal illness so he killed her. I’m wondering is it in a way better that way. What would you do? If you loved someone so much and they were dying what would you do. It does sound a little crazy that he killed her, and honestly I just started reading the book so I don’t have a lot of information or really the back story of why he did it, so I can only guess.

Love is such a weird and strong thing and I people do weird things for love. From what I have heard he loved her with all his heart. Why did he do that. I want to know more about the back story to their relationship before she got sick. What would drive someone to do that? Just because you love someone so much? Also this man turned himself in after he killed her so if wasn’t like he planned to kill her and never find anyone out.

You don’t just turn yourself in usually. If you were a bad criminal who intended on killing you own wife then you wouldn’t have done it in the first place I don’t think.

 I wonder what’s going to happen to Jamie. Are they really going to put him in jail? Does he deserve to go to jail? What if his wife wanted him to kill him? Would anyone believe him? There are so many unanswered questions about this man that I don’t know yet. I mean can you really put someone in jail for killing someone they loved so much? Does that sound crazy? I mean a murder is a murder but it’s just so complicated.

This book is already a bit of a mystery and I really want to find out what’s going to happen to Jamie and why he killed his own wife.