So, here we are on our final book…Native Speaker. Yay! It is quite an interesting one to end it with too if I do say so myself. There is much to talk about; where to begin?
Let’s start with the first page. Lelia, Henry’s husband writes him this list. This is how the story is beginning. So, what is this list? Why is it significant, or is it? I just wonder why this is how the book begins. So here is his wife, she hands him this list and leaves. Now, does she leave as in she’s not coming back or is she just going on a trip? That we later find out. She just leaves and goes on these trips often. But, she just leaves without saying anything.
Another interesting fact in this book is Henry’s job. He is a spy. Very interesting. He works with Kwang. Now who is he? That is something that I must read more before answering. He seems like a very complicated character. However, as I continued to read, I still did not know much about him. He was a confusing character.
And then there was Mitt, Henry and Lelia’s son. He was in elementary school, and had a small group of friends. When he first met the kids there they all teach him these racial slurs toward Asians and he had no idea what he was saying. While they are all playing in the backyard one day, just fooling around, they dog pile, and Mitt is suffocated and dies. After we find this out, we hear about these tapes. They have recorded Mitt and they go back and listen to them. Why? I shall read on to try to figure that out!
