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In my opinion, Poppy's intention while writing this book, including so many weird sexual and romantic twists, was to show how fragile our comprehension of the "normal" is. A lot of people see incest, or even homosexuality as a tabou, something that is unofficially forbidden to talk about and/or express in the society. We often don't want to speak/imagine these things "in action", because that is how we were raised. However, the characters of "Lost Souls" don't have the idea of this tabou. Most of them are not educated or just don't really take care of their lives. They weren't raised with this kind of tabou, which brings us to Poppy's possible point that our world could be the same, where the kind of relationships shown in the book would be acceptable and not seen as something abject, if we wouldn't be conditioned to look at it the other way. The book also has a lot of "returning of the opressed" elements, wheather it is the fact that Nothing always felt like he didn't belonged where he was living or that since he found out that his parents weren't really his parents he was wishing to escape his town and find his real family. Steve and Ghost are also having these feelings throughout the book. Steve, always thinking of the day when he raped Ann and thinking what could've happened if he wouldn't done it. Ghost, always having these visions and dreams of other people, their voices that are haunting him Also after he killed Zillah, he was still thinking about this event for a long time. There are many more examples of the return of the opressed in the story, as well as other different Gothic elements. As Zoe said, we could write a whole essay about it ( which we will :/ ) ! In whole, I enjoyed this reading and this style of writing definetly catched my interest enough to proceed reading these kind of stories! -Evghenia

The character from Lost Souls that speaks to me the most is the member of Lost Souls? - Ghost. Even though I can only imagine how would he look in real life, I'm pretty sure thay he would be "such a cutieeee" :D He is the most understanding character of the story. It feels like even though he has some sort of "super-powers", he is the only one who manages to keel calm and to help others. He never judges, which would be pretty hard for a human being, given the fact that the book is filled with incest. I feel really bad for him, because he feels all the pain that others feel, especially his best friend Steve, who seems lost in his life. Ghost is desperately trying to help him, even though he doesn't agree with some of the things that Steve is doing. Ghost is very loyal and he wouldn't give up on anyone who needs his help. He is amazing. -Evghenia

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I want to propose a new question for our discussion. As we can tell from the first half of the book, the adolescent named Nothing plays one of the biggest roles in the story. His storyline is very intense and interesting to follow ( at least that is the case for me!). Due to that, I was wondering, what do you guys think of Nothing's NATURE? In your opinion, is he a vampire, a human, or a little of both? Why is he having so much trouble to BELONG in his city? Why is he so different??