In addition, it's not a very happy book; every single character in it is touched at one point or another by deep tragedy. (bookbrowse.com)
Focusing as much on Lazhar's demons as it does with the two young students who witnessed their teachers» suicide, Falardeau manages a delicate balance between deep tragedy and the everyday dynamics between teacher and student. (moviemezzanine.com)
The deepest tragedy of our age is the division between ideologies represented by Whitehead's national loyalty in World War I vs. Russell's pacifism. (religion-online.org)