03/18/10

In this part of the story Anne finds out that her husband committed suicide and that her son died. This makes me feel horrible for Anne because she's lost Karl Voss, her mother, her son than her husband and now she has no family or friends.

3/11/10

While at her mother's funeral Anne meets up with the old team she had 20 years ago and finds out that everybody has still been working in the clandestine world. They all caught up on what they had done and they talk about how they should meet up sometime. This reminds me of what I did with my friends last week because we hadn't seen each other in about two years.

3/8/10

Audrey, Anne's mother, asks her about Karl Voss, this really strikes Anne because she really hadn't planned to talk about him since it was her mother was almost dying. They do eventually talk about him, but that same night Audrey dies and they have a funeral with a bunch of people and surprisingly she finds Jim Wallis aged and fat. This makes me feel bad for Anne, but then again not really because it talks about how she really wasn't moved by the death.

3/4/10

While Anne is taking care of her mother she begins to see that the morphine really does have a great effect on her and so she calls the doctors to come check her out he says that she may have to go to the hospital and her mother eventually stops taking the morphine as to not be sent to the hospital. Her mother tells her who her real father is, an Indian, and how her mother made up the story that she was raped by a man because interracial couple were seen back then as homosexuality is seen today, sort of. This makes me really interested in how this will take effect on Anne's mental state.

3/3/10

Anne finds out that her mother has a tumor the size of a rugby ball. While she talks with her mother she finds out that the thing that worried her the most, Rawlison dating her mother, was actually because her mother was part of a secret group and she convinced Rawlison to send her somewhere safe and not as dangerous as the war grounds. Again she thinks about Luís and her son. This makes it pretty awkward for her and her mother and it reminds me a lot of situations of me and my mother.

3/2/10

After the twenty-four year time jump in the book Anne finds out that her mother is sick and that she has to go back to Portugal to see her. On the trip home Anne remembers about the past years and she recalls the times when Luís couldn't make babies anymore because he was sterile and how he is now dedicating his life to the new child Juliaó. This makes me feel really good for her because it seems that she's forgotten Karl, but she still gives hints of him in her memory.

3/1/10

About 24 years go by in this section of the story because Anne finds out that Voss was killed and she finally does get married with Luís. It talks about how she feels that now she is a realy spy because she kept the secret that she believed she was pregnant before even getting married with Luís.