Amulet, Roberto Bolaño
One of the wonderful things I have realized throughout this course is that, despite how I have been often made to feel throughout other literature classes, it is not always necessary to pick out every detail and hidden theme from a book. I am all for analyzing stuff but I've noticed while reading and writing these blogs that often it really isn't necessary. Roberto Bolaño's Amulet was another great example of this for me. Last week I read The Trenchcoat and learned about an awful situation that I had not known anything about previously. This week I also found myself learning something new and once again questioning why the American school system taught me literally nothing about other countries' history. I am sure I could have found some underlying things throughout this novel but just reading it and understanding the situation was enough. Amulet was a novel narrated by Auxilio who hides in a bathroom stall as UNAM is...