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angle. she strips him so utterly naked and bare, and it feels like his struggles serve no purpose in the story, except just to make a mockery of it, to paint it in all its glory. she also misses one of the crucial elements of storytelling, that sometimes, even when we’re reading something that is meant to examine a realistic theme, we also read fiction to have something to hope for, to root for.

and he is kind, he still tries his hardest to be kind, at the end of it all, even through everything. he tries to love people even when he has been betrayed. how can you not love him, someone like him?

i think where the author fails is where she fails to love her own character. she does it in a way even worst than JB, because she is making a book that examines all his pain and struggles and exhibits it from every

I also don’t like to confide in my friends (thankfully, I do it much more than jude), but more because i don’t want to burden them with my struggles.

I know what makes jude a character to root for. even though he went through so many horrific things, he finds the courage to wake up every day to such bone-crushing and heart-wrenching despair. he tries, every single day, to live, even when it is painful.

I can say I honestly hate this book so much, because it’s made me become much more introspective with myself, which had dragged up more wounds than I’d care to admit.

To be honest, I see myself in Jude, but my experiences have been much more tamer and overall, less devastating than his. My past was never as painful as his was, neither am I as smart as him, or is the way i express self-hatred as extreme as his.