I've always been deeply fascinated by Hitler's terrifying influence that seems to extend even from the grave. It's astonishing how he continues to have an impact and cause harm long after his own death. Sophie's suicide, although she is a fictional character, serves as yet another example of how a former victim of the Holocaust's horrors can no longer bear to cope with the memories.

Regarding the novel, I feel that there could have been less emphasis on the stereotypical Stingo character and more exploration of other aspects. I understand that he was a necessary part of the story, but was he made into such an overdone and cliched figure? Frankly, on more than a few pages, I found him rather embarrassing.

However, even with his overwrought, post-adolescent angst, he still remains the only relatively well-adjusted character in the drama. The source of Sophie's torment, of course, stems from the story's title, a choice that in one particular scene encapsulates the entire living nightmare that was the Auschwitz annihilation camp. Although Auschwitz is only described in a few pages, it is the rotten core of the book - or rather, the bony hand that reaches out from the grave once again to touch, albeit indirectly, the lives of each character.

Nor will this influence stop reaching out in real life until every poor soul who endured Hitler's perverse rage has passed into a world where memories are wiped clean.

# Sophie's Choice
We have heard a lot about Sophie's Choice in movies, conversations, and the daily culture of Americans. Well, the origin of this term is from this book. After the publication of this book, Sophie's Choice became a term for a situation where one has to choose between two precious things and lose one of them forever...
This book was highly American in its writing style. I felt a great sense of closeness to the narrator because we had the same common interests, such as the love of writing and becoming a writer, her work environment, her talk about different books and authors...
As you all know, because I am very sensitive to spoilers, I never describe the plot of a book (especially since the summaries of the book's story are everywhere and everyone just copies and pastes them. Just search for the hashtag). I talk about my impression of reading the book.
The first half of the book progresses relatively slowly, but for me, it was interesting because I was reading the memories of a person close to me. The second half of the book becomes much more complex and sensitive, and the desire to discover Sophie's life and her relationship with Nathan doesn't wane!...
Sophie has made the hardest choice in the world. I understood all the heaviness in her soul, her confusion, her love, and her personality type; (in general, the characters in the book were very well created and developed). For example, Nathan is an extraordinary character whose psychological analysis gave me a strange pleasure to understand this person. The omissions in the book in some places made it difficult to understand exactly what happened, but overall, it was a book that helped me better face people, their situations, and their choices, with history, with the way people interact and communicate with a history that they think belongs to them and when they have the tiniest understanding of a historical event... The unique combination of #human ovens and #the Holocaust in America and within this, the souls of those people who each had some kind of contact with these human atrocities, touching them and surviving them, but can what is left after such an atrocity really be called life? Sophie's Choice has always been on the list of the greatest books, and after reading it, I recommend "Confessions of Nat Turner" by the same author, which also has some references in this book. It is an eight-hundred-page book that didn't seem long to read because of the personal and historical attractions it had. The movie of this book was also made with the acting of #Meryl Streep, but my choice is always the book!

William Styron's prose is truly the flagship within the fleet of many remarkable qualities of this book.

Despite the heaviness, seriousness, and tragedy of its content, it had a captivating allure that made me read it in long stretches.

To start with, the writing has a lively, conversational quality, perhaps due to the author's youthful spirit and lack of pretentiousness.

This is also attributed to the content, which I'll discuss later. The plot is conveyed with a light-hearted humor and honesty, as if close friends were sharing stories.

Then there is the serious, philosophically observant part that comes from an author of great merit.

Throughout the alternating phases of the story, the literary richness and almost superfluous feeling narration make this book an excellent read.

I say almost superfluous because it charmed me and was not redundant at all. It carried the Rococo-style ornamentation with grace and sincerity.

It felt like the words of a knowledgeable person who enjoys teaching when comfortable, without any smugness or snobbishness.

The author also provides numerous premonitory teasers that make you approach the impending tragedy with caution, despite the light and dark diversions.

Before starting this book, I wasn't aware that it was another example of excellent Holocaust-related literature.

It makes you feel heavy with hopelessness and an almost inconsequential apology on behalf of humanity.

Sophie, a Polish survivor of Auschwitz, meets the protagonist, Stingo, in Brooklyn as he begins his journey as an aspiring author from the South.

The book reveals the Polish side of the Holocaust story and how anti-Semitism was rampant and self-generated before the Nazi invasion.

Sophie's choice seals her fate towards the gas chambers of Birkenau. Her honest mistake and accidental circumstances bring her close to the fated crematorium.

Her choices in an arbitrary life helped her survive, but at an unimaginable cost.

If you've read Holocaust literature before, you'll be familiar with the ironic guilt and shame that accompanies the survivors.

In a world where choices don't matter and death looms, surviving is not a clean slate.

Sophie's story is no exception and shows the power and momentum of evil and death that humans are capable of.

It makes you realize that even a consciousness of evil is not a guarantee of safety or redemption.

The Holocaust is a historical example that reminds us that there are no positive takeaways in the form of human strength and resilience to divert our attention from the cruelty and hatred.

It just shows that when humanity forsakes us, everything elevated or evolved about us, including hope and God, forsakes us too.

The story is also filled with human sexuality, which contrasts sharply with the evil and death that pervades the narrative.

Nathan, the third prominent character, embodies the extremes of love and hate, a specimen of the human condition.

Stingo is charmed by Nathan's character and capabilities, but the dark secrets about him scare Stingo.

At the intersection of sex and evil is a picture of human survival that fuels both.

The desire to shape the world as we want and populate it with those we approve of is at the root of everything.

Sex biologically couples this with an inextricable control over shaping our identity.

Our feelings of love and hate partly manifest from this, giving more tangible and noble handles to our psychology.

Sophie's story provides a face and example of the same potential for evil.

Stingo's experiences, on the other hand, humorously convey his desperation and journey towards physical bliss.

Sex as a theme and objective is constantly pursued, putting this life-driving power in humans face-to-face with Death.

Like its rich and dense writing, the book consists of many other well-developed facets, such as the familiar struggle of an artist and unwanted loneliness.

These elements make me love it as a complex work that achieves much more than I expected.