we have a thread of movies that make u cry now how about one talkin about books that make u cry. fiction or nonfiction. here's my list: In the Belly of the Beast by Jack Henry Abbott The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer Go Ask Alice
I don't think i've cried reading a book, but 1984 made me feel quite moved at the end. Winston was one of the few main charcters in a book that i actually liked.
i start crying everytime i finish reading the book the giving tree by shel silverstein....there are others as well...but this is the first one that pops into my head.....
The Buddha was in Hell because he had done something wrong, extremely wrong, that caused a lot of suffering to himself and to others. That is why he found himself in Hell. In that life of his, he hit the bottom of suffering, because that Hell was the worst of all Hells. WITH HIM THERE WAS ANOTHER MAN and together they had to work very hard, under the direction of a soldier who was in charge of Hell. It was dark, it was cold, and at the same time it was very hot. The guard did not seem to have a heart. It did not seem that he knew anything about suffering. He did not know anything about the feelings of other people, so he just beat up the two men in Hell. He was in charge of the two men, and his task was to make them suffer as much as possible. I think that guard also suffered a lot. It looked like he didn’t have any compassion within him.It looked like he didn’t have any love in his heart. It looked like he did not have a heart. He behaved like a robber. When looking at him, when listening to him, it did not seem that one could contact a human being, because he was so brutal. He was not sensitive to people’s suffering and pain. That is why he was beating the two men in Hell, and making them suffer a lot. And the Buddha was one of these two men in one of his previous lives. The guard had an instrument with three iron points, and every time he wanted the two men to go ahead, he used this to push them on the back, and, of course, blood came out of their backs. He did not allow them to relax; he was always pushing and pushing and pushing. He himself also looked like he was being pushed by something behind him. Have you ever felt that kind of pushing behind your back? Even if there was no one behind you, you have felt that you were being pushed and pushed to do things you don’t like to do, and to say the things you don’t like to say, and in doing that you created a lot of suffering for yourself and the people around you. Maybe there is something behind us that is pushing and pushing. Sometimes we say horrible things, and do horrible things, that we did not want to say or do, yet we were pushed by something from behind. So we said it, and we did it, even if we didn’t want to do it. That was what happened to the guard in Hell: he tried to push, because he was being pushed. He caused a lot of damage to the two men. The two men were very cold, very hungry, and he was always pushing and beating them and causing them a lot of problems.
ONE AFTERNOON, the man who was the Buddha in a former life saw the guard treating his companion so brutally that something in him rose up. He wanted to protest. He knew that if he intervened, if he said anything, if he tried to prevent the guard beating the other person, that he would be beaten himself. But that something was pushing up in him, so that he wanted to intervene, and he wanted to say: "Don’t beat him so much. Why don’t you allow him to relax? Why do you have to stab him and to beat him and to push him so much?" Deep within the Buddha was a pressure coming up, and he wanted to intervene, even knowing perfectly well that if he did, he would be beaten by the guard. That impulse was very strong in him, and he could not stand it anymore. He turned around, and he faced the guard without any heart, and said, "Why don’t you leave him alone for a moment? Why do you keep beating him and pushing him like that? Don’t you have a heart?" That was what he said, this man who was to be the Buddha. When the guard saw him protesting like that, and heard him, he was very angry, and he used his fork, and he planted it right in the chest of the Buddha. As a result, the Buddha died right away, and he was reborn the very same minute into the body of a human being. He escaped Hell, and became a human being living on earth, just because compassion was born in him, strong enough for him to have the courage to intervene to help his fellow man in Hell. WHEN I READ THIS STORY, I was astonished and I came to the conclusion that even in Hell there was compassion. That was a very relieving truth: even in Hell there is compassion. Can you imagine? And wherever compassion is, it’s not too bad. Do you know something? The other fellow saw the Buddha die. He was angry, and for the first time he was touched by compassion: the other person must have had some love, some compassion to have the courage to intervene for his sake. That gave rise to some compassion in him also. That is why he looked at the guard, and he said, "My friend was right, you don’t have a heart. You can only create suffering for yourself and for other people. I don’t think that you are a happy person. You have killed him." And after he said that, the guard was also very angry at him, and he used his fork, and planted the fork in the stomach of the second man, who also died right away, and was reborn as a human being on earth. Both of them escaped Hell, and had a chance to begin anew on earth, as full human beings. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GUARD, the one who had no heart? He felt very lonely, because in that Hell there were only three people and now the other two were dead. He began to see that these two were not very kind, or very nice, but to have people living with us is a wonderful thing.Now the two other people were dead, and he was alone, utterly alone there. He could not bear that kind of loneliness, and Hell became very difficult for him. Out of that suffering he learned something: he learned that you cannot live alone. Man is not our enemy. You cannot hate man, you cannot kill man, you cannot reduce man to nothingness, because if you kill man, with whom will you live? He made a vow that if he had to take care of other people in Hell, he would learn how to deal with them in a nicer way, and a transformation took place in his heart. In fact, he did have a heart. To believe that he did not have a heart is wrong—everyone has a heart. We need something or someone to touch that heart, to transform it into a human heart. So this time the feeling of loneliness, the desire to be with other humans, was born in him. That is why he decided that if he had to guard other people in Hell, he would know how to deal with them with more compassion. At that time, the door of Hell opened, and a bodhisattva appeared, with all the radiance of a bodhisattva. The bodhisattva said, " Goodness has been born in you, so you don’t have to endure Hell very long. You will die quickly and be reborn as a human very soon."
The only book that I have ever cried in was The Five People You Meet in Heaven. It was an amazing book!
As a teen, 'The Outsiders' made me cry when someone died. It has been a while since a book made me cry, but movies sure make up for it. 'Philadelphia' made me cry quite a bit, and last year, the only movie I went to all year, 'Fifty first dates' hit too close to home, and I practically cried throughout..... As a 12 year old, the cartoon, 'Charlottes Web' made me cry. And who could watch 'Old Yeller' without a tear being shed? Trailer Park Boys has made me cry, but that was from laughing so hard.
There are ALOT... but the two that I think I've cried the most during was the 5 People You Meet in Heaven (that was most recently and my mom freaked out because I was crying so much) and the last Harry Potter book when Sirius dies. I'm worse during movies though... I cry during freaking Indiana Jones.
i have quite alot of books that make me cry, starting from the one of the first i can think of harry potter and the order of the phonix where sirius died (sob sob) the outsiders. animal farm (it didnt make me cry as such just got me very sad) the one im reading the the no- the boy with no shoes. its about aftermath of war. A boy called it ,and the follow ups after them. i dont know what lese but there are loads and loads xxx
Christ, I cry so easily it's hard to narrow it down to a couple books. Bag of Bones by Stephen King made me cry on multiple occasions (it really is a very sad book), I cried during Animal Farm (I read it when I was probably too young to handle it, I was 8 or 9, and the part where Boxer died was pretty traumatic to me at the time), the end of the fourth Harry Potter book, and various parts of Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. I'll return when I think of more.
Books make me cry all the time. Just this morning, I read Oranges for Frankie by Patricia Polacco to my daughter and I just bawled. Patricia Polacco is a children's writer, but I just love her books. They always make me cry, they are just so beautiful. I recently read Green by Frances Sherwood and it made me cry several times. The Outsiders made me cry, too. It is still one of my favorites. I recommend it to my students frequently.
I've read lots of books that make me cry (I'm very sensitive) but I can't think of any at the moment besides the most recent ones~~ Quest for Lost Heroes by David Gemmell and Sunshine by Norma Klein, I literally bawled throughout the entire length of this novel, it's about a young mother dying from cancer, read it if you get the chance!! this girl was such a beautiful person.
lots of books have made me cried, "The Count of Monte Cristo" is one of the representatives among them.
