3A Independent Reading discussion

I love how each passage is written in this book, and how much the words pull me into what the characters are feeling, therefore I will be discussing more well-written passages. Recently, the love interest of Lulu, Willem, has traveled to India to visit his mother, Yael. Yael has been very absent from Willemś life since his father, Bram, died, and this is the first time the two will meet since the tragedy. Upon his arrival, Willem feels like a bothersome to his mother, as if everything he does is wrong in some way to her. All he can seem to think about is how loved, warm, and how taken care of Lulu made him feel, and is wrapped in those emotions more than he realized at first.
´´Willem?´´ she asks. ´´Tell me why you're lost.´´
´´I miss...´´ I start to say, but I cannot get the words out.
´´You miss Bram,´´ she says.
And yes, of course I do. I miss my father. I miss my grandfather. I miss my home. And I miss my mother. But the thing is, for almost three years, I managed not to miss any of them. And then I spend one day with that one girl. One day. One day of watching the rise and fall of her sleep under the rolling clouds in that park and feeling so peaceful that I fell asleep myself.. One day of being under her protection.. One day of being the beneficiary of her strange generosity. It was like she gave me her whole self, and somehow as a result, I gave her more of myself than I even realized there was to give. And only after one day I been filled up by her, by that day, did I understand how empty I really was.´´ (Pg. 207)I love the delicate details used here, such as ´the rise and fall of her sleep,´ which compliments the intensity that Willem feels for this girl, who is gone from his life. Reading this makes me feel the heartbreak that has struck over Willem.
´´Lulu.´´
So I tell my mother. About finding this girl, this strange and nameless girl, whom I showed nothing but who saw everything. I tell her how since losing her, I have felt bereft. And the relief at telling my mother this is almost as profound as the relief of finding Lulu was.´´ (pg 209)
When reading this, I can feel the weight lifted from Willem, and how real he realizes his feelings are. I love how inviting and lovely his words are when describing how this girl made him feel, and how much he feels the marks she left with him. This whole piece of work makes me feel things remarkably, almost as if I am the characters, and that is what makes the passages so enticing to me.

I love the parts of romances when the guy tells his mom about the girl he's in love with, because then you're like, oh my gosh its real. But I love all the quotes you picked out , because it always gives me a good sense of what's going on without giving too much away.