The Midnight Library Part III

 Hello, everyone it's Chiho again! 

I finally finished reading "The Midnight Library" this week. The ending of the story was unbelievable like nobody could expect. So, please stay on this page and see how the story ended!

Summary

    After Nora transferred the life in the Arctic, she became a glaciologist. She was chosen to be a spotter who checks and protects her coworkers from polar bears in that life. When she was staying outside and waiting for her colleagues to come back, she found out that polar bears were staring at her from a few meters away. She banged the ladle against the saucepan and screamed as loud as possible to let the polar bears feel fear and leave that place. However, both didn't work, and she decided to close her eyes and wish her to be sent back to the midnight library.  Fortunately, the polar bears disappeared, and Nora arrived and was saved by her coworkers. After the polar bears' emergence, Nora realized that she actually did not want to die. Even though she nearly died and felt much fear, she was still living this new life, and she met one guy called Hugo in her workplace. Hugo revealed that he was also staying in the place between actual life and death and trying his possible life as Nora does. After Nora and Hugo had some enjoyable conversations, they slept together. When Nora woke up, she was disappointed in herself about the last night and was soon sent back to the midnight library. 

    Nora tried all the lives she hoped to be before arriving at the midnight library. She had been a rock star, a dog worker, a software engineer, a hotel cleaner, and a thousand other things. However, whatever Nora tried, she started losing and sense of who she was. She felt something was missing and eventually went back to the midnight library. 

    After she had tried more than a thousand different lives, she chose the life she accepted the invitation to date Ash, who was her neighborhood in her original life. Nora's life with Ash, a daughter, called Molly, and a dog named Plato was perfect. However, day by day, she realized that Nora in this life was living the ideal life; however, the people whom she used to stay with were having difficulties in their lives. After Nora realized that fact, she was already back in the midnight library. 

    When Nora arrived at the midnight library, a big fire started happening, and all the books there were begun burning. The big fire showed the midnight library would soon be disappearing. Mrs. Elm told Nora that the only way she could escape from the library was by going back to her original life. Nora picked the book about her actual life and added the sentence "I am alive." Nora went back to her authentic life. She was throwing up and stumbling outside. The next time when Nora woke up, she was in the hospital. After she recovered, she began to correct the mistakes she made in the past and fix all the relationships she had, especially with her brother and her best friend. Nora is now trying to find out Mrs.Elm at the care facility.

Reflection  

    First of all, I loved this book very much, especially the ending. "The Midnight Library" is now one of the English books I like the most. In the middle of the story, I was pretty disappointed with Nora because although she tried the life she believed it to be, she ended up going back to the library. From my perspective, some of the life she tried were very attractive, and even though she mentioned why, I still could not understand why she wanted to end her new life. However, since I read the part when Nora chose the world in which Nora and Ash were dating, I could see what she hopes to have in her life and began to look forward to seeing which life she would choose as her end of life. From the story, I learned that what makes our lives more liveable and shinny is not changing the complete life we have right now. Even if we could try a new life, we will eventually face further difficulties. Therefore, we need to overcome the challenges we face now rather than hoping that life will end like Nora. 

    I finally finished reading the first English novel this semester! It took me around one and a half months to complete. However, I could learn a lot of helpful vocabulary and how English speakers express themselves. It was worthful for me! If this class asked me to read a book, I never had a chance to gain the enjoyment of reading the English novel. Now I am very excited to meet a new story!