I BEL CAN'T (o)
Sooooo bel canto the title translates to beautiful song, and I think that Anne patchett really embodies this throughout the whole thing. Her writing is in a sense almost lyrical, i kept reading certain sentences over again because they just sounded pretty. Also the beautiful song thing comes into play because the thing about a song is that it is a sliver of beauty that only lasts like three or so minutes, the characters in the book themselves are put into this hostage situation which they know will end eventually very badly but while they are still in it they start to live life in a heightened way, a way that is more passionate and condensed than normal life. But that beauty and love they find in each other is eventually cut off, just like a song. Beautiful but it doesn't last forever, and maybe that it can only be experienced for a short time makes it seem even more beautiful.






