"The Book of the Dead"

I thought that this story was really weird. I understand where the title is from, he talks about the Egyptians a lot and it was mentioned that he read the Book of the Dead. At first I didn't really understand how this was the highlight of the book. Why was it important enough to make it the title? Now I think I understand it. The whole reason the father went missing is that he was disposing of his daughters sculpture. His reasoning had to do with the Book of the Dead. He said that your heart was weighed against the feather of truth. He told her that he did not deserve a statue. I suppose that it would be hard to finally tell your daughter the truth after so many years. Her whole art career was inspired by her father. It seemed like every piece she talked about in the book somehow related to either her father or to the prisoners and the unjust treatment they received.

At the beginning when Annie was talking about her father going missing, I thought he had Alzheimers or something. It was a little confusing. When I found out that nothing was wrong with him, I was really confused. I mean, why would he just abandon his daughter. She seemed genuinly worried too. It made it seem like he had gone missing before or something. When she finally found him, he came bearing bad news. I think Annie would have rathered him go missing for several more hours than have to hear what he had to say about his life and her art piece. He told her that he had gotten rid of the sculpture. I think she was really confused by this. He told her that he didn't deserve it and that it was basically haunting him, and that he did not want to take credit for something he did not do. He told her that while he did get his scars in the prison, he was not a prisoner. He was actually a guard at the prison. I felt really bad for Annie. All of her art has been inspired by her father. Now she finds out that everything he told her was wrong. It is really sad. I think that her father should have either told her the truth earlier or not told her anything at all about his scars, because that lie really ended up hurting Annie.

Comments were made to Jessyca (http://jessycawithay.blogspot.com/) and Kyrstin (http://kyrstinsblog.blogspot.com/).