The Master Butchers Singing Club-Chapter 14-SPOILERS

[Curmudgeoness]

2. This is a book that is sad, but

it is sad like real life is sad. Shit happens. I was thinking a lot about that in finishing up this book---the characters are not spectacular in any way. They are just ordinary people who are living ordinary lives, with all the sorrows and happiness, ups and downs of life. There are no heroes. They all have faults and good qualities. This is just life.

Erich stayed in the POW camp, never acknowledging his father and brother. He just went back into the gate of the prison camp. His choice was to survive there. He was indoctrinated.

I think it was good for Mazarine and Franz to have the baby....although I never feel good about starting out right off the bat with a child. But that was what happened all the time back in those times. I would have preferred for them to have time as a married couple before the baby, but I don't think that they see it as a bad thing.

I am ready to post the final segment....OMG.