I hate apathetic characters! However, as someone who has been through having to put a parent in a home because I could not take care of them, I get it. It’s hard. I also hated Sundays, but I tried my best. We all do.

I’m also agnostic, so the narrator’s non-belief resonated with me as well. Part Two was both hard to read and realistic. People are condemned whether they are God-fearing or not because we live in a God-fearing society. It is, I suppose, a self-fulfilling prophecy.

And it is with great irony that the prosecutor brings the charges up to the death penalty at the very last moment with no remorse, which he had criticized the narrator for. What is this eye for an eye bullshit?

The best part of this book was the end because the narrator realizes that such inevitable endings are what give value to beginnings. The mental snap! Which even brought the chaplain to tears.