Dear Anna Todd,
"You have entranced me body and soul and I love, love, love you," Mr. Darcy Pride and Prejudice.
When thinking of your book After, the first in the After series, I think of all the old literature that you brought back to life. You made me fall in love with so many things. So many people that I have never met or dream of meeting. I was so entranced when I first read the books online that I had to buy them all. I needed to know the ending. You brought to life my love of literature and the need to feel love in many ways.
I have always been one that never wanted to love. I, in many ways could be compared to Harry (Harden), I was forcing myself to be alone and making my life miserable. A life without love. Why do people live like that? I know why. Because we have felt so much pain we know that love never lasts and that everything good gets taken away. So we put up walls against love of any kind. We put them up to protect ourselves and those walls make us hurt people in ways that we do not want to or mean to hurt them. We want other people to have good lives and not the lives that we have experienced. Lives that are full of love and laughter. We take those things away from ourselves in hopes that someone more worthy will find and use those feelings.
I shut myself off in order to feel no pain, but in doing so, have felt the worst pain. Your book made me open my eyes to the possibilities of love. I opened my eyes to love that is stronger than many things that I have seen. A love that is fought for and is hard won is the best and strongest love out there. Love is such a simple concept but as you get older it gets harder and harder to love. Pain, pain drives away love. Makes love disappear and become a negative thing, but what is a life without love? Why are we here to live in a troubling world if we can not do anything as simple and fulfilling as love.
When I started the book I understand the pain Tessa felt when she was being bossed around by her mother and never being good enough for her. I know how that feels. She met Harry (Hardin), he was closed off and a jerk, and preyed on her weaknesses. I have been doing that for years. It's how I keep myself safe from pain and loss. These two amazingly strong characters come together to make something beautiful. A blank canvas was painted. It started black and sorrowful, then burning red-the color of passion was added, the color of hate, and love. Blue for the sad times both Tessa and Harry(Hardin) went through denying their love for each other. Grey for the depression, silver for the tears, green for the envy in one another, and gold the color of a champion. Gold, the color that makes all colors dull and lifeless. They won each others' hearts. They worked, they trained, they prevailed. Finally they ended up happy even after being put through hell in a hand-basket for one another. That is the love I want. The love that is passionate forever. Love that does not die but strives, and you, Anna Todd, have given me the faith and hope that love like that does exist.
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To Anna Todd
FanfictionThis is the letter I am entering in a contest and wanted to post. If you want please read and give opinions and corrections. I have already had 3 people edit one of them being my English teacher. PLEASE DO NOT COPY I WORKED REALLY HARD ON THIS AND E...