Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name Journal 2 and Topic for Paper

Based on the last chapters that we have read, I am starting to like Clarissa less and less. I feel as if she is blowing this whole scenario way out of proportion. Every person has something bad that went on in their lives maybe not as bad but many times even worse. Although I think this was a horrible thing that her mother did to her and I would never do that to my children, I feel that she is letting this whole thing late over her life. I feel as if she should still be on the lookout for her mom because I would want to know what happened to her too and if she was still alive see her, but that is what her whole life is based off of. She no longer has a job, fiancé, friends, and even a real family. It seems like she will turn out like her mom and just continue running away. I feel like she just needs to get a hold of herself and her life and learn from her mom’s mistakes. There is nothing she can do about the past and needs to stop wasting her entire life on this. The last chapter we ended at “Tongue to Ice” really caught my attention. When the chapter came to an end, I really didn’t want to stop reading it and wanted to find out what was about to take place in the upcoming pages and chapters. I was really surprised to see that she might finally be able to find and see her mom. It is almost like you are sitting here thinking..will this women really be her mom? Will she be glad that Clarissa finally found her? Will they go off and live a life together as if nothing happened? There are so many different endings that could occur and it just interests me to see which path this book will take. I almost feel like after everything Henrik has done for her and gone through with her that she should end up being with him although he is a lot younger. He is a good man, with a great life style, who always treats her with a ton of respect. Although I feel like it won’t happen being Clarissa is unable to stay faithful to any man and continuously changes her mind, it is always a good thought. I find it kind of interesting how the author has so much climax leading up to this one point. It is almost as if these couple of chapters make or break the book. It makes sense how she plans out the whole seeing of her mom because it seems as if she is going to go directly to the Ice Hotel and find her mom standing behind the counter or showing people to her room. It was a creative set up how her mom may actually be in a different part of the hotel which she is unable to go to until a day later. I feel like the author had the narrative set up like this so Henrik would be able to get to know a little more about Clarissa without having to ask her while also keeping the attention of the reader. I know for sure it keep my attention. I didn’t want to stop reading the book. I just wanted to find out if it was really her mom or if there was another twist in the book.
As I look back on the other parts of the book, it doesn’t surprise me that Clarissa may finally find her mom in Lapland. It’s almost as if she ran away to a place that she called home but also where some of her greatest and worst memories took place. It seems as if she is going back to finally clear her head and try to start a new life in the place where everything started. She never seemed really happy in the United States and moved from place to place and person to person while she was there. Maybe when she first lived in Lapland she felt like she had a place there and was her true self. Also Lapland was far enough away where no one from the United States would recognize her and it was less than likely that any of her children or husband would travel to find her. Although she lived in Lapland or around the area before, most people probably had not remembered her and she could start an entire new life all over again. I really hope that as the book unfolds all of my questions of why her mom left and why she never tried to find Clarissa again will come up. Hopefully she has a good reason for her disappearance and the two will forgive each other and live happily ever after. Although I know this sounds too much like a fairy tale and probably will not happen, it would be nice for Clarissa to finally have an understanding of her entire life story and reasons for things she never understood.
For my narrative sequence paper option, I am either considering writing a long narrative on her mother’s point of view and her life story or else maybe even her brother. Although her brother does not have a large part in the book, it would be interesting to try to write an understanding of him. Or else, I may take an even different approach and try to analyze Clarissa and her mom as rape victims and do a background search on rape victims and tie it in with the two. Many the whole rape incidence relates to why the two travel and leave so much. This may be due to the fact that the whole tragic occurrence is continuously reflected on their old lives and they have to leave them in order to get over it. Although I am not exactly sure which one of the three I am doing, I will email you and ask you more questions on the guidelines for the rape topic if I decide to do that.