The Midnight Library part II

Hello, this is Chiho! This is a second reflection of The Midnight Library, if you are interested in this novel, I suggest you to go to the first reflection and come back here, so you can get to know the story better ! 

Summary

 Nora is now trying a new life in Australia where her best friend Izzy is living. When she transferred from the library she was in the pool. She swam some and recalled that she used to love swimming a lot. In the water, it disappears everything. Her focus had always been very unmixed that she thought of nothing else. In this world, Nora has friends, Nora loves to write a poem, and the relationship with Dan was going alright. Everything seems to go smoothly. However, Nora noted that a different life didn't mean a different planet. A couple of hours later, she went out of the swimming pool and headed to her home. She was expecting that she lived with Izzy, but she couldn't find Izzy even at the home. Instead, she met one flatmate. When Nora was chatting with that mysterious flatmate and asking her what happened to Izzy. That mysterious flatmate gently told her that Izzy was dead in a car accident on Nora’s birthday. 

Nora immediately was sent back to the library. She told Mrs. Elm that each life, she was stuck by something, so she would like to have a life where she isn’t stuck, and a life where she is successful with something. While Nora was talking with Mrs. Elm, she started to wonder about the life where she did everything that her dad wanted, and she reached the Olympics by swimming. 

The next moment, she woke up by the phone alarm. It was 6:30 am and she was in the luxury hotel room. In this new life, she was a swimmer who had won a gold medal and a silver medal at the Olympics. She even held a world record for women’s 400 m freestyle at the World Aquatic Championship. When Nora was strolling the room, somebody called her. It was Nadia, who Nora’s father was having an affair with. Different from her root life, her dad was still alive, however, he was having an affair, and due to that Nora’s mom died earlier. Although she was dedicated to swimming and was doing all the things that her dad wanted her to do, her dad was still as cold as he always was. After the phone call, Nora was back in the hot’s vast conference room and giving a speech. Instead of giving a speech like how she succeeded or how she trained, she discussed how depressed she is, how much frightening this life is. Right after she finished her speech, she was sent to the library. 

For the next life, Nora chose the life of being a glaciologist which Mrs. Elm kept encouraging her to be and Nora wanted to be in her original life. Is her life finally going to end? What is a spotter? 

Reflection

Damn, I love this novel a lot!!!!! This is the best English novel I've ever read before!!!! I wish I had more time to read this book. Nora is definitely a symbol of negative emotions. I can have sympathy on every feeling she expresses. Unlike fantasy novels, all the wounds she had had are very real ,all of the terrible incidents happened to her can might happen to us. But on the other hand, I am bit intolerable to see her life. Every life, she needed to face some tragic events and felt sorrow and disappointment. For instance, if she didn't try life being a swimmer, she didn't need to realize that her dad never cared about Nora like he used to do in her original life. When we faced some tragic events, we instinctively delete those memories, however, Nora has to face these again! Imagine, you need to try a new life that you don't know whether you can live life happily ever after, it might harm your heart again or might let you face new events that harm your heart. It's like you can try a new life based on the movie but you can't know whether it is a happy ending or not. And what's more, you need to try again and again until you find the life which is perfect for you. Hell no, for me, it’s just like I’m tortured unlimitedly but never die.