when looking back

This book has not been a easy read for me, the way i wen t through 9/11 was not the same as someone from new york did. However reading this has made me go through the loss people felt through different traumas and through out reading this book I thought it was good just something i would never read again. I don't like to be sad and this book made me sad really all the books have done that however as I read the final chapter in the book I couldn't help but smile at the ending because oskar get the closer he needs because he is finally done searching and is now talking with his mother about the day his father died. He was finally able to cry and let it all out, that doesn't  mean the trauma of his fathers death will be gone it just means that it will be a little less hard. the line "I'll be happy and normal." means that he knows he is not like everyone else but he is willing to try hard to be happy and active in life. That is a amazing thing because "normal" people don't even make that effort sometimes they are not willing to accept anything different then from what they are. which i find very very sad.