I am currently in the middle of reading the book "Perfect Match" by Jodi Picoult. To see the summary of the book read in the above post(part 1). Recently what has happened though is Nina Frost who is a prosecutor and who's son got molested by their priest was in the courtroom with the priest and while he was getting on the stand to testify she pulled out a gun walked right up to him and shot him in the head 4 times.
This was a complete surprise to me as the reader. I had no idea at all that it was coming. There is a lot to think about here, was it okay for her to do it or not? In a way if I were a mother and my child was molested by this creepy man I would want to kill him. The question is would I actually go through with it? Nina is a really well respected prosecutor so it's kind of weird that she's now about to have a murder trial. I can completely understand why she would want to do it in the moment but she really wasn't thinking about the consequences. All Nina wanted was for her son Nathaniel to go back to a normal life and I know that what happened to their family was terrible but the thing is killing someone really isn't going to help get their family back on it's feet. Imagine what it would be like to be a 5 year old boy who just had to go through all this and then getting told mommy is in jail for murdering the man who molested you!? It's pretty crazy to think about. Is Nina really willing to sacrifice her relationships and her life just so this man would be dead. Also the other thing is that the readers know that the man did molest Nathaniel but Nina didn't know for sure. She trusts what Nathaniel said but she didn't even let the priest testify before killing him.
Another thing is I feel so bad for Nina's husband Caleb who still loves Nina but also hates her at the same time. He is put in the worst positions having to tell his poor son about everything thats happening while his wife is in jail for murdering someone.
I wonder how this family is going to get through this all. I think Nina should be allowed to go back to her "normal" life and try to re-build her family. I do think that that awful man deserved punishment but I don't think murdering him was necessarily the right solution. Although Nina killed the priest she caused tons of other problems for herself and her family.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Thursday, April 11, 2013
"Perfect Match" Jodi Picoult
I just started reading "Perfect Match" by Jodi Picoult .....yes another Picoult book. Anyway this book is mainly about a woman named Nina who is a lawyer who works on cases involving sexual abuse towards children. She always tried her hardest on these cases but never really truly thought about what those kids were going through until it happened to her own child Nathaniel who's only 5. Nathaniel refuses to speak so he has to use hand motions to tell them what happened to him. He says that their priest did it. I have no idea what's going to happen next but I'll have to wait and see.
Nina must feel completely helpless right now. I think that until something actually happens to someone is really the only time they can truly relate. What I mean by that is Nina could have worked on hundreds of cases involving sexual abuse on children but she didn't know what was like for their parents or them. Now that she is going through this traumatic experience with her only family does she understand how it feels.
Nina has also always sort of felt in control. Now there is really nothing she personally can do to help Nathaniel's case. She needs to let go and leave it in the hands of others, although I understand why she wouldn't want to do that. Nina is having trouble grasping the fact that they can't just take the priest and lock him up forever they don't have a compelling enough case if Nathaniel refuses to talk. Just like any other mother of course Nina is going to react the way she does --like she needs special treatment for Nathaniel and if he doesn't want to get on the stand he doesn't have to, but she's wrong. I think it's scaring her that she isn't in control of the situation.
This book looks kind of creepy but also very good. I wonder what's going to happen and I really hope that the priest gets caught for doing what he did-- if he in fact did it.
Nina must feel completely helpless right now. I think that until something actually happens to someone is really the only time they can truly relate. What I mean by that is Nina could have worked on hundreds of cases involving sexual abuse on children but she didn't know what was like for their parents or them. Now that she is going through this traumatic experience with her only family does she understand how it feels.
Nina has also always sort of felt in control. Now there is really nothing she personally can do to help Nathaniel's case. She needs to let go and leave it in the hands of others, although I understand why she wouldn't want to do that. Nina is having trouble grasping the fact that they can't just take the priest and lock him up forever they don't have a compelling enough case if Nathaniel refuses to talk. Just like any other mother of course Nina is going to react the way she does --like she needs special treatment for Nathaniel and if he doesn't want to get on the stand he doesn't have to, but she's wrong. I think it's scaring her that she isn't in control of the situation.
This book looks kind of creepy but also very good. I wonder what's going to happen and I really hope that the priest gets caught for doing what he did-- if he in fact did it.
Thursday, April 4, 2013
The Pact Part 2 By Jodi Picoult
I recently finished reading "The Pact" by Jodi Picoult. Look to finda better summary in my last post. But it's mainly about a boy and a girl who are childhood friends who become lovers. One night she gets killed and he claims it's a double suicide but there is some evidence he might have killed her. In the end as I recently just found out was that she really wanted to kill herself and sort of forced him into helping her do it, and then they both ended up killing her his hand over hers on the gun. This book was really intense but it was amazing and one of my favorite books of hers.
Chris the main character boy, ends up actually being found innocent and gets let out of jail. After the jury hears the whole dramatic thing and even Chris gets up on the stand they conclude he's innocent. In a way I'm sort of glad he is. After hearing the real story from Chris's eyes I know( as the reader) that this was really Emily's fault. He did everything that he could to try to stop her and she made him swear he wouldn't tell anyone. How you could betray the person you loved most in the world by telling? In the end she ends up killing himself with his help. I think that Chris really really loved Emily more then anything more then life itself and would have done anything for her, and he proved that to us. In my opinion it's a good thing that he's innocent because he doesn't deserve to go to prison for the rest of his life.
On the other hand what must it look like to Emily's parents? Emily's mother already became cold and sad and furious and her best friend -Chris's mother. She didn't even know yet if Chris actually did it. Now knowing this new information I bet she will never talk to her friend ever again after this. I mean how could you blame her? As the reader I have seen it from both perspectives -Chris's parents and Emily's parents. It's hard to think what you would do if your best friends child killed yours? Although Emily's parents don't know the whole story and they are in denial about the fact that their daughter was suicidal.
This book was so intense and had so many layers to it. It was extremely powerful and sad. I couldn't put this book down you really should read it. It was amazing.
Chris the main character boy, ends up actually being found innocent and gets let out of jail. After the jury hears the whole dramatic thing and even Chris gets up on the stand they conclude he's innocent. In a way I'm sort of glad he is. After hearing the real story from Chris's eyes I know( as the reader) that this was really Emily's fault. He did everything that he could to try to stop her and she made him swear he wouldn't tell anyone. How you could betray the person you loved most in the world by telling? In the end she ends up killing himself with his help. I think that Chris really really loved Emily more then anything more then life itself and would have done anything for her, and he proved that to us. In my opinion it's a good thing that he's innocent because he doesn't deserve to go to prison for the rest of his life.
On the other hand what must it look like to Emily's parents? Emily's mother already became cold and sad and furious and her best friend -Chris's mother. She didn't even know yet if Chris actually did it. Now knowing this new information I bet she will never talk to her friend ever again after this. I mean how could you blame her? As the reader I have seen it from both perspectives -Chris's parents and Emily's parents. It's hard to think what you would do if your best friends child killed yours? Although Emily's parents don't know the whole story and they are in denial about the fact that their daughter was suicidal.
This book was so intense and had so many layers to it. It was extremely powerful and sad. I couldn't put this book down you really should read it. It was amazing.
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