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what is some /lit/ that made you cry?

>> No.18728950

>>18728939
it's kinda odd to think of Joyce having a sincere sadness about life while being the writer of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake where nothing normal in life seems to be taken sincerely.

>> No.18728963

>>18728939
I cried reading War and Peace when Andrei was dying in the field hospital. I didn’t even cry at the later part, but reading about him lying beside Anatole I had tears streaming down my face in the middle of a crowded cafe

>> No.18729061

>>18728939
Charlotte's Web

>> No.18729064

>>18728939
Where the Red Fern Grows.

>> No.18729115

>>18728939
Ocean in the end of the lane.

>> No.18729294

>>18728939
Anything about families desu

>> No.18729484

Bridge to Terabithia.
That chapter in The Count of Monte Cristo where Mercédès confronts him and asks him no to kill her son.

>> No.18729943

>>18728939
Marie's story in the Idiot made metear up

>> No.18729957

>>18728939
Krillin’s death at Namek.

>> No.18729978

>>18728939
Anna Karenina - shed a tear
>When Levin is at his alcoholic brother's deathbed. Too close to home.

Moby Dick - watered up
>Ahab smelling fields on the wind in the scene where Starbuck almost gets him to change course, but the man simply can't be convinced he could fight his nature and let go of the grudge.

All My Sons - actually cried a bit
>"I know you're a man, just like any other. But I never thought of you as a man. I thought of you as my father."

>> No.18730076

>>18728950
Did you read either? They both explicitly include the most heart-wrenching aspects of existence.