“My Year of Meats” the end

April 16,2008 iwonka

I’ve just finished reading the last section of “My year of meats” and I have to say that I am really glad that I’ve read this novel. At first, I had some doubts about this book mainly caused by its strange title. I just couldn’t understand what’s so special about meat and why someone would want to write about it. However, after I read the first few chapters I realized that there was much more to this novel than just meat.

With that said, these are my thoughts about the final chapters.

First of all, it was heart breaking to read that Jane had lost a child due to a miscarriage. At first she thought that there is no way that she could get pregnant and finally when she did this horrible thing happened to her. Also, I felt that it was very unfair that Jane lost her baby while Akiko got pregnant. It seemed to me that Jane wanted to have a baby much more than Akiko did and for some reason I think that she would be a better mother.

Secondly, I felt very happy for Akiko because she finally found the strength and courage to leave her abusive husband and turn her life around. There is no doubt that John was a horrible person and most of the time I felt disgusted by his character. I just couldn’t stand him because of how he was treating poor Akiko and all of the bad things that he did to her during their marriage. I don’t understand why it took her so long to leave his sorry ass.