Namra

😤🔥 lit 9

[Namra @namralit]

@litwithlayton So sorry, it’s gonna be okay 🙏🏼

[Namra @namralit]

@jazzageblues I wondered this as well, I think they probably felt like he had returned to his faith- or rather- his faith found him (concluding that God loved him too much, fate pulled Adam to his creator) #laylit18

[Namra @namralit]

Do you think McEwan wanted the book to end the way it did to speak to the narrative of predestination? #laylit18

[Namra @namralit]

Fiona’s husband’s request in the beginning of the novel is an ironic jab at one of the themes of the novel: faith and religion-he is faithless in their marriage, but so is Fiona in a way. To be faithful or to not be faithful?? in both the religious and marriage sense #laylit18

[Namra @namralit]

I think the reason the director made Phil repeat the day so many times (even though it drove me crazy), was that it emphasized just how many times we as a human race pass by our days, living with the same flaws, troublesome personality, and the same negative attitude #laylit18

[Namra @namralit]

After finishing the Children Act I was left pondering how faith can both motivate us to keep living (gives us a reason towards wanting to be good people) and hurt us (Adam losing his faith, and his belief in Fiona) #laylit18

[Namra @namralit]

@Meghollasch @olivia_marnell I agree, I think, if this is Jack’s explanation he has some work to do on his pride and his ego. It seems like an excuse, he could have just said he was wrong to start the affair, rather than say it was some kind of pressure from an unexplainable force #laylit18

[Namra @namralit]

I think Adam’s death is being politicized- if he’s allowed the tranfusion, the English court would be saying they accept death in favor of religion- this would be big step forward for the rights and beliefs of jehovahs witnesses #layit18

[Namra @namralit]

I think that Adam has accepted death but he is distracting himself with ideas of holy martyr hood that his death will bring. He says that one of the elders says rejecting the transfusion would ‘fill our church with love’- how would a child’s death do this? #laylit18

[Namra @namralit]

Interesting how the hospital is a pleasing place to Fiona, how is she not reminded of the pain that goes on there? Or even, her childlessness? #laylit18

[Namra @namralit]

Surely, if she sentenced Adam to death, she would be disdained by the media and the law world. Is her verdict genuine? #laylit18

[Namra @namralit]

Do you think that Fiona made the decision for Adam to get the blood transfusion out of her own better judgement or more so to keep her reputation? In chapter 3, we find out that Fiona has some flaws such as her elitism and close mindedness. #laylit18

[Namra @namralit]

@jazzageblues I agree, it seems like finding the balance between religion and social and educational life is a huge foreshadow in the first chapter- this crosses with Fiona’s own busy life and that of her personal life #laylit18

[Namra @namralit]

Odd how Fiona works to uphold the delicate balance of the daughters wishes, the mothers wishes, and the fathers religious insistence when she can barely assert her own thoughts in her struggling marriage. #laylit18

[Namra @namralit]

@ZoeVallejo3 I wonder if this incidence made camu understand that things don’t happen for a reason and decided to stop dwelling on what he couldn’t do and simply.. exist #laylit18

[Namra @namralit]

My theory is that the judges are indirectly blaming mersault for his mother’s death as well; their hatred for him is transferred to all his other actions #laylit18

[Namra @namralit]

There’s an ominous feeling at the end of mersault’s trial, after the patricide is mentioned, why do you think it’s mention? #laylit18

[Namra @namralit]

On pg 100, the narrator’s perspective seems to change, “my mind was always on what was coming next, today or tomorrow”- previously he thought of everything in the moment/present #laylit18

[Namra @namralit]

Odd how on pg. 56 the narrator claims that “if he doesn’t draw his knife you can’t shoot”- if he’s such a in the moment person, he shouldn’t be thinking about morals, shouldn’t he just shoot because he wants to shoot? What you guys think of this?? #laylit18

[Namra @namralit]

So all that desensitization to his mother’s death is in fact a failed effort. We don’t think in terms of now, mersaults aggression and sadness is shown: his humanity is shown, when he shoots 4 times #laylit18

[Namra @namralit]

I think Meursault shoots the man 4 times even though it only takes one shot to kill is a reflection of his inner feelings: whether existentialists like it or not, humans tend to transfer their emotions in some way (physically, verbally, ect.) #laylit18