Response to 253

I really liked the way 253 was set up and how easily it was to navigate through the novel. Linking all the pages together was incredibly useful. If I forgot one character or who he/she was, I could simply click on his/her name and it’d take me back to the description of the passenger. But beyond the description of the person, it tells you what the person is like on the inside, what a bystander wouldn’t notice from looking at them. From there, it tells of the action and thinking that is taking place with that person. As short as each page is for each person, I feel like I have all the information about each person to know them quite well. And on the side note, I love how a trapped bird on the train was treated just like a human passenger. I had to read it carefully to even notice it was a bird and not an actual person.

“The end of the line” really hit me, almost like I was in that train with them seeing them and hearing their thoughts until the darkness swallowed them. Though the last thoughts of each person were not included, the ones that were included are enough to make a lasting impression. What would my last thoughts have been if I had been on that train or what would I have seen in that split second between life and death? But it would’ve been kind of interesting to see what went through the minds of some of the other people in the train, but I understand why the author included the few that he did.