April 25- Make up blog

The book that I read for my outside reading that had the least influence on me was On Canaan’s Side. I think that out of all of them, this one was the least helpful in terms of learning more about my topic. The main character had to leave her family, in Ireland, in the beginning of the book, but it didn’t really show how they influenced her life. The main way that her family influenced her life was with the death of her grandson. This caused her to become really depressed and suicidal. This was on of the main problems I had with the book. She was very suicidal the entire novel and had even planned how she would take her life. In the last few pages, she has a sudden realization that this is not what her grandson would want her to do. The novel doesn’t necessarily have a happy ending, but I think the author wanted readers to be more satisfied with what she did, instead of the alternative. I don’t think this is very realistic. It was like she suddenly woke up and realized what she was about to do was wrong when in the entire novel, she was set on doing it. I think that if the author was going to put this into her novel, it should have been resolved in another way.