No Escape
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No Escape
I confess wanting to take a vacation from myself. I was nodding along to her reaction of how dark and frustrating loneliness can be.
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"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you." (Mortimer J. Adler)
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I love how your phrasing for why you could not connect with the other characters! I felt sorry for her but I also wonder if her love for Oktay was an addiction.LivreAmour217 wrote:Elif was a very relatable character, and I felt sorry for her. I agree with Bluemel about her being the only relatable character in the book, as the others were a bit too "unique" to be realistic.
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Good point! Now that I think about it, Elif exhibited textbook codependent behavior!bluemel4 wrote:I felt sorry for her but I also wonder if her love for Oktay was an addiction.
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That is it exactly! She was codependent to the extreme. I was angry at how much she ignored the warning signs Oktay was presenting. If they got him help sooner, who knows how that story could have ended.LivreAmour217 wrote:Good point! Now that I think about it, Elif exhibited textbook codependent behavior!bluemel4 wrote:I felt sorry for her but I also wonder if her love for Oktay was an addiction.
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bluemel4 wrote:That is it exactly! She was codependent to the extreme. I was angry at how much she ignored the warning signs Oktay was presenting. If they got him help sooner, who knows how that story could have ended.LivreAmour217 wrote:Good point! Now that I think about it, Elif exhibited textbook codependent behavior!bluemel4 wrote:I felt sorry for her but I also wonder if her love for Oktay was an addiction.
I agree
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I completely agree. While I may think it was irresponsible to ignore all of his symptoms for so long, her reasoning and reluctance is understandable.LivreAmour217 wrote:Elif was a very relatable character, and I felt sorry for her. I agree with Bluemel about her being the only relatable character in the book, as the others were a bit too "unique" to be realistic.
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