The Prayer of Electra by Phillip Vo

I really resonated with the passage in which Electra gives up her prayer to Hermes (or the gods in general). We see that Electra is truly broken over her father, who she feels was wrongly killed and snatched away from her and her brother, and she doesn't know how to pray and takes guidance from the Leader. I want to focus on the paragraph that reads,

"These prayers for us. For our enemies I say,

Raise up your avenger, into the light, my father -

kill the killers in return, with justice!

So in the midst of prayers for good I place

this curse for them."

I bolded these words because right before she lifts up this prayer, she asks the leader about how she should pay for the murderers, addressing a judge or avenger? The leader replies, just "the one who murders in return!" 

Electra includes all three of these concepts, that firstly her father would be avenged, through the death of his assailants in a just way. We see this carried out, at least best as her and her brother see fit, in the rest of the book. I felt the pain that they felt, however, as they progressed in the short things they said (her and her brother) and it made me overlook that they took up murder on their mother. 

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