Across the Universe

This story was very fascinating to me (I had just finished it), and the ending had caught me me by surprise, and it was a bit confusing, too. I had never read a book with so many twists and turns in it. It was about mostly about a girl who was frozen, and was supposed to be frozen until she was in anew planet, named Centauri Earth. I really liked how there were two narratives instead of one, because it was a nice change of pace.

Her name was Amy,and very soon, she found a person, that was the only person that didn't tell her lies, like where she is right now, and how she wasn't supposed to be alive right now, and how she was 'reanimated' into this life. This story really got me thinking. Is everybody who they say they are? Or, like Elder, Amy's friend, found out the truth, and he was basically nothing, because everything he knew was a lie, like he found out that they're never going to Centauri Earth, and everybody on the ship was drugged into believing that they were on their way to a peaceful life.

Those people on the ship was representing the people that was affected by the lies that was told to them, and the person who told the lies, his name was Eldest, didn't know the consequences and the actions that would happen all around him. He ended up dying at the end of the book, and a strange way, too. Elder, who was like a son to Eldest, thought that he was a tyrannical dictator that should be stopped almost immediately, as soon as he found out the whole truth.

 He wasn't the only one, though. Elder's best friend, besides Amy, Harley, was spying in on them, and when he realized that he was never getting off the ship, he decided to kill himself, because he thought that death would be better than living a whole life full of lies. It shows to me that anything could happen if you tell a single lie, it could end up in a dire consequence for another person.

This whole story was based on a murder that happened a million years ago, and they thought that person was dead, but as it turns out, he's not dead, and he was the one who had been feeding people the lies, and they believed him. That ended up in a mass suicide. Well, that's what you get for lying. With only one little white lie, you could change someone's life forever, like that person could end up killing themselves, or end up dazed, as if you've been woken up and you can see the world through another person's eyes.

That's why I loved this book, it had taught me a valuable lesson. And I hope it will teach you a valuable lesson too.