Death in Venice

This book isn't like any books or stories that I have read. This wasn't a true or a realistic fiction of any kind, which are the types of books that I am acquainted with, so this book was a new enjoyment.
At first, when I was reading this short book, it didn't really made much sense and I was having troubling understanding the plot. The reason being that I thought this was another same type of books that I usually read, realistic-fiction, and does not have a lot of thinking elements. (It just has the plot, instead of a lot of symbolism and putting things together). So, because of this, I was very confused. For example, when the main character, was in love with a beautiful boy that he saw in a hotel. I was very confused by this while I was reading it, until I got to the end, when I read this book again, this time not as much trying to understand the plot, because I already knew (about the plaque and the death at the end), but instead, this time trying to replace many things that were symbols or what they could represent. …