Raoul's Thursday Post

SPOILER ALERT IF YOUR NOT AT PART TWO DONT READ THIS!!

So today I read my second installment of the Sense of an Ending, quite frankly I liked todays reading much more than yesterdays reading. The fact is that Adrian's suicide is quite juicy. I find the story of his suicide kind of interesting and in a way there is a possibility that Anthony beings to blame himself because of the letter that he sent to Adrian. Honestly though I find suicide to be out of the question; however, I have a strong believing that the government should not protect me from myself (i.e. drug laws and helmet laws, but I also get the health care factor into that but its the idea), so I do not believe that the government should make suicide illegal. Anyway, suicide so far has been a recurring theme in the novel. The philosophy behind the suicides have also been interesting. The first suicide was done because the kid could not face the world. The second suicide was done because adrian understood the world too well. I did not like that the media labeled Adrian's suicide as madness. I feel like they do this in order to make suicide seem like an illogical idea (which in many respects it is). Any ways, the last sentence of part one brought up one of my favorite ideas, "who writes history?" Antony claimed that it was the survivors, I find this to be an interesting way of looking at his life. Maybe Antony is on a suicidal path.