⁃ The Secret History by Donna Tartt
‘Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly I did not.’ My Francis, my Francis Abernathy.
I tell you these classic greek obsessed students, yes, have done something terrible upon my
soul and it can not be escaped.
I started this book with high expectation and so to my suprise, it goes off beyond mine. As
the premise says, these greek class students killed Bunny, their own classmate and friend.
Now, why this is something genius of donna tartt to put the who-get-killed in the first
sentence. I am very ashamed of this but well, first met with Bunny he seems kind and
joyous, he greeted Richard in a very welcoming manner. I wondered why they killed him and
I was about to get sad. That is the thing, the motive of the characters in this book I tried to
understand. Which very successful because at the end, what is wrong with me I don’t know,
made me tolerate Bunny murder in the first place. Everyone must think that way, what made
Bunny deserves that, like there is an impression, very logical of them to plan this horrible
thing and done it to him. The tolerate feeling of murder, is what this book in a very terrifying
and horrible way, got me hooked into it. The feeling as a terrible person I feel throughout this
book why is that, I can’t escape from it.
One thing I want to say to the every main characters in this book is, they are nasty. Most
indeed. Most terrible. But of course, horrible characters are sometimes intriguing, the
reasonings, there is urge to tolerate their acts into what readers call attractiveness. Oh yes,
talking about Henry Winter, aren’t we. They are nasty and yet I fall for some of them.
Richard’s narration about them as if he got this inner-most feeling towards them, he got
blanked by their mysterious and pretentious style, saw them as a magical creatures until
finally, got dragged into big misery with them.
I will talk about each characters. First, Henry Winter. He made me fear him for the last
chapters—everytime he appeared from the very first moment in fact—of how he behave,
how could he planned the events as if those are just a play and the audience would give him
a big applause for it. I can’t comprehend his character, he is full of mystery, the most
obsessed among them, I can never get what he is about to say. Guess he did things what
his mind ask him to. Redistribution of matter, he said, goodness Henry. The last moment of
him made me think all over again about all his behaviours, him as a person. I must say that
was quite romantic of him. He is very bad and again I fall for him.
Bunny. Edmund. Edmund Corcoran. He deserved it. Oh my god, but the murder made me
screamed finally. To consider the things he had done. Camilla and Francis mostly, I feel sorry
for them. How can he became the most hateful, racist character in this book. The slurs,
Donna Tartt, we need to have a private discussion for that. Charles was true, the imaginary
of Bunny hanging around their neck for the rest of their lives was pretty awful to me. The
death scene, Richard narrated it in simplest way and I like how slow it was like to him, as he
coming into his own death.
The twins. Camilla and Charles Macaulay. You know, I thought Richard got a crush on them
both for the way he narrated each of them. They are the least suspicious to me at first. I saw
them just so cool and friendly. I think they are really fine but no, the last chapters made me
rethink about them. Do I feel disturbed, yes, get it out of my head for once. I liked Charles,
‘Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly I did not.’ My Francis, my Francis Abernathy.
I tell you these classic greek obsessed students, yes, have done something terrible upon my
soul and it can not be escaped.
I started this book with high expectation and so to my suprise, it goes off beyond mine. As
the premise says, these greek class students killed Bunny, their own classmate and friend.
Now, why this is something genius of donna tartt to put the who-get-killed in the first
sentence. I am very ashamed of this but well, first met with Bunny he seems kind and
joyous, he greeted Richard in a very welcoming manner. I wondered why they killed him and
I was about to get sad. That is the thing, the motive of the characters in this book I tried to
understand. Which very successful because at the end, what is wrong with me I don’t know,
made me tolerate Bunny murder in the first place. Everyone must think that way, what made
Bunny deserves that, like there is an impression, very logical of them to plan this horrible
thing and done it to him. The tolerate feeling of murder, is what this book in a very terrifying
and horrible way, got me hooked into it. The feeling as a terrible person I feel throughout this
book why is that, I can’t escape from it.
One thing I want to say to the every main characters in this book is, they are nasty. Most
indeed. Most terrible. But of course, horrible characters are sometimes intriguing, the
reasonings, there is urge to tolerate their acts into what readers call attractiveness. Oh yes,
talking about Henry Winter, aren’t we. They are nasty and yet I fall for some of them.
Richard’s narration about them as if he got this inner-most feeling towards them, he got
blanked by their mysterious and pretentious style, saw them as a magical creatures until
finally, got dragged into big misery with them.
I will talk about each characters. First, Henry Winter. He made me fear him for the last
chapters—everytime he appeared from the very first moment in fact—of how he behave,
how could he planned the events as if those are just a play and the audience would give him
a big applause for it. I can’t comprehend his character, he is full of mystery, the most
obsessed among them, I can never get what he is about to say. Guess he did things what
his mind ask him to. Redistribution of matter, he said, goodness Henry. The last moment of
him made me think all over again about all his behaviours, him as a person. I must say that
was quite romantic of him. He is very bad and again I fall for him.
Bunny. Edmund. Edmund Corcoran. He deserved it. Oh my god, but the murder made me
screamed finally. To consider the things he had done. Camilla and Francis mostly, I feel sorry
for them. How can he became the most hateful, racist character in this book. The slurs,
Donna Tartt, we need to have a private discussion for that. Charles was true, the imaginary
of Bunny hanging around their neck for the rest of their lives was pretty awful to me. The
death scene, Richard narrated it in simplest way and I like how slow it was like to him, as he
coming into his own death.
The twins. Camilla and Charles Macaulay. You know, I thought Richard got a crush on them
both for the way he narrated each of them. They are the least suspicious to me at first. I saw
them just so cool and friendly. I think they are really fine but no, the last chapters made me
rethink about them. Do I feel disturbed, yes, get it out of my head for once. I liked Charles,
