What can I say about this story… reading it wasn't the easiest thing to do and was quite difficult to follow. I didn’t really have any idea at the slightest what was going on the first time I read it! However, that being said once I understood how this story was written it made the piece a little bit easier to follow through.
The reason why this story was so difficult to read was because of the authors unique choice of writing, he wrote the story with a shifting narration; meaning that there was more than one narrators present in this story (omniscient, first person, third person and objective to be more precise!). This is the first time that I've come across this and I found it to be unique and caught my attention.
This story isn't the happiest of stories; it involves a Chinese girl leaving the hospital and horrifically standing in front and getting hit by a train ultimately causing her death. The unique shifting narration I mentioned above is important with showing just how closely connected a community is and gave us a good look into how affected everyone was by this tragedy. We get to see this event through the eyes of quite a few people; we see it through the mechanist, the one who takes this tragedy the hardest, Su Lin’s boyfriend who in fact found out about this while at a coffee shop and a few others. Death isn't always an easy topic to read. But this piece made me realize just how easy your life could be taken from you and that you should live it to your highest expectations.
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