Angelica DiMercurio

Jodi Picoult, The Pact.Harper Perennial.1999.Fiction. There are many themes throughout this book but the one that tends to show up the most is a theme of unconditional love. The Pact teaches this lesson in a way of when you love someone so much, you put them before yourself-even risk your life for them.
The Pact is a story about Emily Gold and Chris Harte, who have been friends since the day they were born. Being neighbors and close family friends, Emily and Chris were constantly around eachother. At first they were just close friends, but as time went on, Emily and Chris started feeling more strongly about eachother and friendship wasn't enough. Eventually, Emily and Chris start going out. There relationship is until Chris starts noticing a sudden change in Emily. She hasn't been acting the same and seems to be depressed all the time. Chris cannot get Emily to tell him whats bothering her but one day she decides to come clean. She tells Chris she is planning on commiting suicide and since he loves her so much, he makes a suicide pact with her, but will he follow through? The Pact is a suspenseful book constantly making you wonder how far would somebody go for the person they love.
The Pact is deffinately an interesting book. It gives you a chance to put yourself in somebody else's shoes. The way Jodi Picoult describes certain scenarios makes you feel as if you were the one having to make this life or death choice. This book raises many issues depending on the way you look at it. It makes you ask yourself a lot of questions and read between the lines. The Pact taught me many life lessons and made me understand how some people can be feeling on the inside without showing it on the outside. It is an inspirational book and makes you widen your point of view to different issues and situations. I highly reccomend this book so that you too can experience the apprehensive events of The Pact.