Veronica Decides to Die

“So what you decided for her?” she asked.
“About whom?” he replied not looking up from his typewriter.
“Veronica”
“oh yes,” he paused typing. He had totally forgotten about her. “Veronica decides to die“, he said, getting back to his typing.
“What!!”
“Yes, she is fed up of her life so she decided to end it and end the pain too.”
“How can you kill her?”
“I’m not, she herself is.” Little did he knew that Veronica, just a character to him, was his readers’ most lovable person of his series and it would devastate them to see her die.

Word Count:100


My theme is READER’S IMAGINATION: you hear a book’s name and your imagination takes you the world of your own. The world your imagination creates which is totally different than the world which author has created in the book.

Veronika Decides to Die- Paulo Coelho

Twenty-four-year-old Veronika seems to have everything she could wish for: youth and beauty, pleny of attractive boyfriends, a fulfilling job, and a loving family. Yet something is lacking in her life. Inside her is a void so deep that nothing could possibly ever fill it. So, on the morning of November 11, 1997, Veronika decides to die. She takes a handful of sleeping pills expecting never to wake up.
Naturally Veronika is stunned when she does wake up at Villete, a local mental hospital, where the staff informs her that she has, in fact, partially succeeded in achieving her goal. While the overdose didn’t kill Veronika immediately, the medication has damaged her heart so severely that she has only days to live.
The story follows Veronika through the intense week of self-discovery that ensues. To her surprise, Veronika finds herself drawn to the confinement of Villete and its patients, who, each in his or her individual way, reflect the heart of human experience. In the heightened state of life’s final moments, Veronika discovers things she has never really allowed herself to feel before: hatred, fear, curiosity, love, and sexual awakening. She finds that every second of her existence is a choice between living and dying, and at the eleventh hour emerges more open to life than ever before.
In Veronika Decides to Die, Paulo Coelho takes the reader on a distinctly modern quest to find meaning in a culture overshadowed by angst, soulless routine, and pervasive conformity. Based on events in Coelho’s own life, Veronika Decides to Die questions the meaning of madness and celebrates individuals who do not fit into patterns society considers to be normal. Poignant and illuminating, it is a dazzling portrait of a young woman at the crossroads of despair and liberation, and a poetic, exuberant appreciation of each day as a renewed opportunity.Veronika Decides to Die

 

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6 thoughts on “Veronica Decides to Die

  1. I loved this book! Another brilliant one penned by Paulo Coelho that I have read. 🙂 (I plan to read all of his books, though haven’t just yet!) In fact, his book inspired a post (to be drafted) as there were some key things that struck me deeply… Oh, I am getting off tangent. Love YOUR story too Nibha though it seems like ‘she’ won’t be too happy…hopefully it won’t end up killing her! 😉 <3

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