ABML Journal #2 Katie Knight

Gerda has lost all of her family and friends. She is alone and desperately wants to be loved. She went to the graveyard to see where Liesal and Suse were buried and I would have thought that that would just make matters worse. The book states,"After a time I went to find Suse's grave. There to I put flowers, whispering her name. The sound was strange in the stillness and again I felt terribly alone."I could'n't have standed being alone." If I were Gerda I would have taken my life with that poison a long time ago. I just don't get how she could have survived through all of that pain and always have to live with those heart renching memories. I would like to ask Gerda why she stood her ground and did not take the poison? She lost everything, so why not?