The Pact by Jodi Picoult
Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 3:16 pm
Reading the posts about My Sister's Keeper reminded me of The Pact which I read this summer.
Picoult likes to explore human rights issues and this one centers around assisted suicide. Though in the beginning it appears to be a suicide pact, an idea which the reader is gradually lead to believe just does not make sense with the behavior of the main character. Picoult's books seem a little too simplistic in some ways, and the characters not well enough developed.
In the end, I still could not feel the intensity of emotion from these two characters that would lead to the death of the girl. I also felt that as the reader we would agree with the not quilty verdict, because we knew, but in real life I doubt very much that it would have ended this way. Perhaps the book would have had more impact had the verdict been guilty?
Picoult likes to explore human rights issues and this one centers around assisted suicide. Though in the beginning it appears to be a suicide pact, an idea which the reader is gradually lead to believe just does not make sense with the behavior of the main character. Picoult's books seem a little too simplistic in some ways, and the characters not well enough developed.
In the end, I still could not feel the intensity of emotion from these two characters that would lead to the death of the girl. I also felt that as the reader we would agree with the not quilty verdict, because we knew, but in real life I doubt very much that it would have ended this way. Perhaps the book would have had more impact had the verdict been guilty?