Journal Entery

Date: 1 January 2008

Entery Number: 9

Page/Quote reflecting on: Pgs. 89-91

It was so sad when Juliek died. He seemed like a really awesome person. (For me, him being musically inclined was a big part of it). Juliek had fallen down, then Elie fell on top of him, and then another guy or some big mass fell on top of Elie, suffocating him. Some how Juliek was able to get out from under Elie and the dead man on top of Elie and began playing his music in the silent winter night with death all around him. "I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He was playing his life. THe whole of his life was gliding on the strings-his lost hopes, his charred past, his extinguished future. He played as he would never play again...When I awoke, in the daylight, I could see Juliek, opposite me, slumped over dead. Near him lay his violin..." I almost felt like crying at this point which was surprising because throughout this book I got mad, sad, completely astonished/flabbergasted, but I never could really cry. But at the time of this boy's death I felt that way. Juliek wasn't even a main character really at all but the discription of his last night, his last song he ever played-Beethoven's concerto, and him dead in the morning light with his violin laying near him was awesome but very sad. I don't know why it had such an impact on me but it did. It was just really sad.