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Originally Posted by dannyg1
Where we diverge is on the idea that this was an illustration of revenge.....
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Like I said, I didn't read it myself but our very advanced and mature teen daughter had a book discussion with us on multiple occasions about this story.
Her takeaway (right or wrong this is what she felt when she read it, and she is very well grounded) was that the main character (Hannah?) committed suicide. Before she did, she wrote 13 letters to various people telling them she killed herself because of things they did to her.
Suicide is never revenge because the dead person is not there to "know" the suffering of their revenge victim. It's a convoluted metaphysical topic but it doesn't work, in my mind.
Anyway, her takeaway was that Hanna was a victim, yes but she turned into an afterlife bully and abuser herself by killing herself solely for revenge and did so in a way to torture 13 other people.
Sounds like a perfect setup for a Quentin Tanrantino movie (whose every bit of work I deplore for similar reasons)