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The Bridge of San Luis Rey was such a touching book. The book starts out with this "rope" bridge breaking and 5 people dropping to their deaths. This was witnessed by a priest named Br. Juniper.
Br. Juniper wanted to scientifically prove that nothing just happens. That it is all G-d's will. I do believe this, but I don't believe that Wilder's Juniper really proved it in the book. I loved the stories though. All the characters stories, though never interacting, had a theme running and bringing the ...more
Br. Juniper wanted to scientifically prove that nothing just happens. That it is all G-d's will. I do believe this, but I don't believe that Wilder's Juniper really proved it in the book. I loved the stories though. All the characters stories, though never interacting, had a theme running and bringing the ...more
I read this book many years ago and just finished re reading it. Thornton Wilder won the Pulitzer Prize for this book in 1928. He is a master of lovely prose and intense themes. In this book he explores how a single disaster entwines the lives of its victims and the problem of good and evil in tragic events. His last line summarizes his findings: "There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning."
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