I was shocked by the last fifty pages of the Lazarus Project, particularly the final pages in which which Rora was murdered. I find it both clever and ironic that the novel both started and ended with a murder; the murder of Lazarus lead to an investigation which lead to the murder of Rora. In addition to this one event, the entire novel seems to be quite cyclical. The novel continued to go back and forth between the past and the present, however by the end of the novel the division between the two times seemed to diminish greatly. While the times were still divided by chapter, Hemon began to fuse the past into the present through Brik's dreams and thoughts. Also, the theme of dreams connected the two times of the novel, making it somewhat confusing as to what was actually happening and what was simply a figure of one's imagination.
Unfortunately, while I had enjoyed the novel so far, the conclusion didn't please me. As mentioned above, I liked that the novel came full circle with the two murders, however I didn't like that the Lazarus murder wasn't brought back into the novel as a conclusion. I wanted some sort of closure to that time period, and I feel as though Hemon only concluded the portion of the novel with Brik and Rora, rather than that of the initial Lazarus murder. Overall, however, I enjoyed the novel more than most of what we have read so far in the class.
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