“The idea that your loss would be casual, random and almost instant seems to me still the worst thing you could have to cope with because of the shock element of it” If you look Grief up in a dictionary it says: keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss, sharp sorrow, painful regret. Losing someone or something, you love or care deeply about is very painful, and it’s defiantly not easy to deal with.
Natalie Haynes created a book, whose plot very much seems like the plot of the old Greek tragedies. All the main character’s in the book has some sort of grief they have to deal with.
Alex has had a difficult time with the death of her fiancée. A new job offers and she moves to Edinburgh to escape the continuous depression. Even the challenges of the Pupil Referral Unit cannot completely distract her from her past. The fact that Alex doesn’t deal with her grief, but just keeps herself occupied and pushes it away only makes it worse. Her mother tries to help her by talking, but Alex also managed to push her away. She’s isolation herself from all the people who care, and wants to help her. She cannot deal with the fact that Luke is never coming back. It’s almost as if she’s pretending it never happened. I think that’s why she doesn’t want to talk about it. Many people feel that way. “If you don’t talk about it, its not true”. Alex is stuck, and she just keeps sinking deeper and deeper into her depression. It’s not until the ending of the book Alex reaches to a conclusion, and finally accepts that things are the way they are. She realizes that no matter how bad she feels, killing Katerina won’t make a difference.
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