#19 A book about food
HA! See what I did there?
But, seriously.
I know a lot of people didn't like this book/movie for a number of different reasons, but the main one that I see over and over again is the fact that they don't like Hannibal killing for revenge. They feel it is somehow beneath him. The thing no one remembers is, it's ALL revenge. He kills people for being rude. So, it's revenge for his sensibilities or even the sensibilities of those people that he holds in esteem (see: Miggs' death after he disrespected Clarice, and also Paul Krendler). So for him to take revenge on the people who murdered and ate his little sister is not that far of a stretch. In fact, it makes more sense once you think about it.
This act that was brought upon him is so heinous that people don't even like to think about it and a person's natural reaction, however buried in morals it may be, is for revenge. I think that people just don't like to admit that Hannibal IS human and has human feelings. They prefer to think of him as a monster with no morals who kills at random on a whim and then tries to justify it with "manners."
This book shows you that he is indeed a human who has gone through something terrible and found a way, however misguided and amoral (to us) to deal with it. It is this act that set off a chain reaction to the events of the rest of his life and career, including his unique "tastes."
I enjoyed this book. It was fascinating to learn the back story and to see behind the mask, as it were, to this character.
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