Interesting....

While flipping through the book again, I had noticed an alternative theme. I had initially picked out a few passages or lines that I found particularly interesting and now, looking back at those lines, I found that a good majority of them had to do with death. For example:

+ page 36 : "...in the lives of this riff-raff...only silence, grim silence, the silence of death fighting for life, prevailed."
+ page 41: "Bakha stared at it and felt for a moment the grim fear of death, a fear akin to the terror of meeting a snake or a theif."
+ page 83: "...his old father was as good as dead, a putrefying corpse like that of a stray dog or cat on the rubbish heap."
+ There is also a part where Bakha's very existence came into the novel. His father, trying to console him, tells Bakha of the story of when he was a child and very ill.

Thoughts of the incorporation of death into the story full of tension, and battle with oneself is particularly intriguing to me. I was wondering if anyone else had noticed, and what they thought about it.

[Sorry that this is late, if we had a blog due for Wednesday, I usually post while I am at school because it is a long commute home.]