Cion Blog #1

I had first read Cion over the summer thinking it was something that all freshman had to of had read by the first day of school. Later finding out I was wrong to my annoyance but none the less I had at least started to read it. By now I had forgotten most of the small details of the book and I’m happy that I have. Going back and starting to read this for the second time is actually fun. I can take time to see the smaller things that I over looked before. I find it funny when Toloki was first dropped off in Athens on Halloween night, I can only image how confused he must have been. Trying to figure out what was going on and why everyone seems to be dressed oddly. Also when he said he was looking for the two people running for president but all he could find were old presidents made me laugh. The other part of the book that have enjoyed is when he is telling his story about the Abyssinian Queen. He goes into such detail that you can’t help but picture what is going on while you are reading. Another section in the book that struck me was how when at the Ridges he could not morn for the deaths of the people for the people there didn’t have names. This brought on a whole new sadness to that grave yard, when you walk through there you know not who lie underneath you but when someone who morns death as a profession cannot even morn theses people it makes you stop and think just how forgotten these individuals buried there are.