Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
Shatter me, first novel by Tahereh Mafi is an exceptional book, because when you read it, the type of writing of the author enchants the readers and it´s inevitable to get into the story.Her form of writing is outstanding compared to others because it is poetic, descriptive and she uses a lot of metaphors, but what really makes her unique is when she crosses something the character is thinking, and replace it whit something more positive but the reader could also read the crossed lines.
The book is about a girl named Juliette and her touch is lethal. Juliette hasn’t touch someone in exactly 264 days, last time she did it was an accident but the Reestablishment locked her up for murder. no one knows and no one cares about Juliette, because they are worried in other stuff, like the fact that the world is crumbling apart, sickness are destroying the population, there is no food, the clouds are the wrong color and the birds don’t fly anymore.The Reestablishment said that their way was the only way of fixing things, now a lot of people is dying and the survivors are singing war. The Reestablishment has changed its mind, maybe Juliette is exactly what they need, maybe she is more than a
tortured soul traded in a poisonous body.
This book is phenomenal because the story is congruent, intriguing and with an amazing redaction. it is inevitable to put yourself in Juliette position, live the story through herb eyes and share her suffering. The character development is something that gives the story a spark, to see how from being an outsider who will never fit in, she becomes this strong woman who believes in her self. And now her touch is not lethal, it´s power.We realize this thanks to the fact that at the beginning of the book she changes her opinion a lot and crosses out many thoughts and at the end of the book she doesn’t cross out anything.
This is one of those books in which the villain becomes the hero. Aaron Warner the boss of the sector 45 pretends to be someone who totally supports the Restoration, someone without a soul and with a heart of stone but in reality he ends up saving Juliette from breaking. Terrified by his own father (the commander of all The Reestablishment), Warner ends up being a victim of society. The reader can see his ruthless side that is his disguise, but he can also see his weaknesses, his vulnerability, a side that he only teaches Juliette.
The language used in this book is very poetic, this beautifies the context of the story and makes it have many metaphors that touch the heart of the reader. This is a phrase that makes the book magical and the reader fall in love with history.
“I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
This quote talks about how Juliette spent her adolescence reading, how she lived through them, how she fell in love with the characters and how reading so much made her felt as if she and her world were part of a book. The interesting thing in this quote is that Juliette really is part of a book and how her story makes you feel exactly what she describes. Another reason why this is a great phrase is because it makes the character more real and easier to relate to the reader by the simple fact that the character considers reading a book something so profound and relatively the reader also enjoys the habit of the reading.
The symbolism of this book is profound and fundamental to connect with the characters and their situation.
Restoration represents what could happen in society if people keep not caring about the environment, human rights and above all, equality. Another important symbol is the birds. Birds represent humanity and as day by day it disappears more. In addition to the dreams that Juliette has, in which she sees a bird fly and this indicates to us how she unconsciously never loses the faith that society can improve. In conclusion this is a spectacular book that every lover of reading should read.
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