He was a physical person and that life was ripped right out of reach. This is vastly dissimilar to his old way of life which included bungee jumping, swimming with whales, climbing mountains etc. He is a 35years old man and has to depend on people. This same taboo founds the main conflict in the book. He is liable to having his mother(or anyone which is really my point) walk out on him during a conversation, as she did when he first brought up a topic she considered an outright taboo. He cannot make many decisions on his own. He has go to toilet in a catheter attached to his wheel chair, and have it emptied by a carer. So he must be fed food, he must be given a drink. There is faint movement in his palm but he can’t grasp anything. He can’t make use of his body from his chest downwards. Will Traynor is disabled, not just a paraplegic but he is a quadriplegic (and the worst case, a c5/6 as we’re informed). It’s disturbing in an okay-easy-to-read-but-i-can’t-accept-this-worldview kind of way. It’s disturbing, not in the way ” the girl on the train” was disturbing. This book stirs up mixed feelings for me. I can logically follow the main thread of the book but maybe not emotionally. Towards the end of the book, we however get two other points of view for a bit. The book is written in the first person point of view, which is okay. The genre is conntemporary adult fiction. In hindsight, I believe it implies what extent you’ll go to, in putting the happiness of the person you love before your happiness. I didn’t ponder on what the title could suggest before reading the book.
This is the first edition and it has 481 pages. The title of the book is “Me Before You” and the author is Jojo Moyes.
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