After Gabriel is found dead, Alicia is charged with his grisly murder as she is the only one found at the scene of the crime.
In the start of the book, we are given a prologue of what “happened” the night that Gabriel, the husband of Alicia (the ‘silent patient’), was found dead, tied to a chair. As the author periodically flutters between his past and present, we learn who Theo really is on the inside and how he fits in the overarching storyline. Throughout the book, we follow the thoughts of our protagonist, Theo. Perhaps what appealed to me the most in this novel was its premise: a murder by a mentally ill artist that never spoke after the crime. In this article, I’m going to break down the characters and plot, and explore the ending and an alternate meaning of the Silent Patient. Who doesn’t love thrillers mixed with a bit of Psychology (foreshadowing)? So, after a few hours of searching, I found it in the library catalog: The Silent Patient, by Alex Michaelides. I chose psychological thriller to read first for the sole reason that it sounded– for lack of a better word– cool. There are two genres of the kind: psychological thriller and contemporary. For my goal, I decided to read books that are in genres that I never read before. Honestly, I took the assignment to be more of an ultimatum than a goal. The first Homework assignment that she gave us as a class was to write a goal that we had in ELA. What originally compelled me to start reading “The Silent Patient” was my ELA teacher, Ms.
0 kommentar(er)
