The Tragedy Paper, Elizabeth Laban
8/20-90 minutes, 8/21- 60 minutes
Total- 150 minutes, 90-212


This past week I finished the book, The Tragedy Paper, and as the book says in the title, it includes tragic features, and these tragic features help the main character write the inevitable "Tragedy Paper." The "Tragedy Paper" is a yearlong 15 page paper on tragedy that is assigned to all seniors. To help the main character with the paper, an albino outcast gives him a gift, multiple voice recording telling the albino's own journey with tragedy. As the albino takes the main character through the voice recording, meaningful features become revealed about "magnitude," and "purpose." Words that can define real tragedy, the albino's tragedy.

So, what's the purpose? Why write a book on an awful tragedy that led to a man's blindness? First, it's mind captivating, but it's also the author's own kind of tragedy paper, kind of like a picture that's taken with two mirrors and the reflection continues on and on. It shows the effect of tragedy in every way, relationships, personal struggles, happiness, etc. But it also shows the after, the struggle to overcome the tragedy, and the author Elizabeth Laban did fantastic and she put a tremendous amount of meaning within each page. Overall, this book may have changed aspects of my life positively, even though the book is fiction.