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But of course! Not really sure how to start though...
:D Me neither. I'm thinking about to start to re-read it tomorrow or today. :) I can't get it out of my mind lately. And I don't want to leave it for around Christmas, because you know... it's a really heartbreaking story. So I'm going to refresh my memory first and then we can speak about it. :)
Sounds great! We shall speak of it then!
Ok, so I finished it again. It was more interesting for the second time.
I’m so confused about Mitch. I mean, I believe he really loved Jenna, but then surely he was a stalker. Not in a usual way, but he was one nonetheless. He lied a lot and because of it I don’t really know him. Because if he lied about his sisters and brother, then what else? Was his father really a drunk, or he just made it up because of the behavior of Jenna’s mother? After all he made the story up about his brother, when Jenna talked about Matt at the first time. And that shark attack… Was it true? And did he really want to be a mammalogist? And… and… and… Yet, in spite of the lies, he pulled Jenna out of that miserable and depressed world where she’s fallen after Matt’s death. He saved her. So is she a victim? I hardly think so. And I like that Jenna did it to him too. Saved him, I mean. She brought him back to life, she made him feel love again. But if I think about it, sometimes I’m not sure. Maybe he was just obsessed with her, he liked that she was broken, and he enjoyed the role of hero. There was a part after Jenna’s ”accident”, where he told her that he loves her. And then I got the feeling that he just wanted sex from her. I don’t wanna think about it that way, but… (p. 271)
So I really don’t know his feelings. Maybe he thought that it’s okey to collect informations about her, to get to know her, to lie to her because he wanted her so much. Maybe he really just wanted to help her and along the way he fall in love with her. I’d like to think the latter. Because truly, this is the most beautiful and saddest love story I've ever read.
So what do you think about these things? About Mitch and his feelings? Or about anything else? And about this song: Elegeion - Scars. I love to listen to it while reading this book.
Okay so I know it's been over a year since you posted, but I can't stop thinking about this book.
I think he was lying to lure Jenna by making her feel safe and comfortable with him. I don't think he was aware of how predatory and morally "wrong" he was being - he was telling himself it was okay since he was trying to help her, just like he was trying to help Danielle. But then he wound up caring for Jenna way more than he thought he would; maybe because he genuinely felt a connection, or just because he liked feeling like a hero.
The most frustrating part is that not only you're left in the dark about what's true and what isn't about Mitch's stories, there's also the fact that Jenna is an unreliable narrator fresh out of a very traumatizing event. It's a double whammy of unreliability and it's been driving me nuts. On the one hand, I do think he somewhat cared for her; on the other, just by looking at how he was also helping Danielle made me think that he's just looking to try and save fragile people (and starts this process by "preying" on them) and his romantic feelings towards Jenna were somewhat fabricated or superficial, having to do more with himself and his role of her salvation than Jenna herself.
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:D Me neither. I'm thinking about to start to re-read it tomorrow or today. :) I can't get it out of my mind lately. And I don't want to leave it for around Christmas, because you know... it's a really heartbreaking story. So I'm going to refresh my memory first and then we can speak about it. :)
Sounds great! We shall speak of it then!
Ok, so I finished it again. It was more interesting for the second time. I’m so confused about Mitch. I mean, I believe he really loved Jenna, but then surely he was a stalker. Not in a usual way, but he was one nonetheless. He lied a lot and because of it I don’t really know him. Because if he lied about his sisters and brother, then what else? Was his father really a drunk, or he just made it up because of the behavior of Jenna’s mother? After all he made the story up about his brother, when Jenna talked about Matt at the first time. And that shark attack… Was it true? And did he really want to be a mammalogist? And… and… and… Yet, in spite of the lies, he pulled Jenna out of that miserable and depressed world where she’s fallen after Matt’s death. He saved her. So is she a victim? I hardly think so. And I like that Jenna did it to him too. Saved him, I mean. She brought him back to life, she made him feel love again. But if I think about it, sometimes I’m not sure. Maybe he was just obsessed with her, he liked that she was broken, and he enjoyed the role of hero. There was a part after Jenna’s ”accident”, where he told her that he loves her. And then I got the feeling that he just wanted sex from her. I don’t wanna think about it that way, but… (p. 271)
So I really don’t know his feelings. Maybe he thought that it’s okey to collect informations about her, to get to know her, to lie to her because he wanted her so much. Maybe he really just wanted to help her and along the way he fall in love with her. I’d like to think the latter. Because truly, this is the most beautiful and saddest love story I've ever read.
So what do you think about these things? About Mitch and his feelings? Or about anything else? And about this song: Elegeion - Scars. I love to listen to it while reading this book.
Okay so I know it's been over a year since you posted, but I can't stop thinking about this book.I think he was lying to lure Jenna by making her feel safe and comfortable with him. I don't think he was aware of how predatory and morally "wrong" he was being - he was telling himself it was okay since he was trying to help her, just like he was trying to help Danielle. But then he wound up caring for Jenna way more than he thought he would; maybe because he genuinely felt a connection, or just because he liked feeling like a hero.
The most frustrating part is that not only you're left in the dark about what's true and what isn't about Mitch's stories, there's also the fact that Jenna is an unreliable narrator fresh out of a very traumatizing event. It's a double whammy of unreliability and it's been driving me nuts. On the one hand, I do think he somewhat cared for her; on the other, just by looking at how he was also helping Danielle made me think that he's just looking to try and save fragile people (and starts this process by "preying" on them) and his romantic feelings towards Jenna were somewhat fabricated or superficial, having to do more with himself and his role of her salvation than Jenna herself.
