Summer Reading

The book I choose was The Messenger. I choose this book for multiple reasons. One huge reason was it seemed like it had action. In the back cover it mentioned the Ed, the main character, stops a bank robbery at the beginning. This gave me the idea that there would be a lot of action in parts. Another reason I chose this book over the others was the title. The title is imply The Messenger which makes the book sound mysterious and creepy and like there are a lot of secrets in this book, and I like books with some secrecy involved in them.

I would suggest this book to anyone who likes a book where you have to think. This book keeps a lot of thinks hidden until the end to keep the reader interested for the duration of the book. Another reason you should read this book is that its relatable. It is about a young man who is having a hard time finding a identity for himself and is not doing a lot that make him proud of himself, but the book helps him change that and be a better person overall.

Summer Reading

In my Novel, The Messenger, Ed, the main character is given jobs to do by unknown people. These jobs are given to him by giving him playing cards with addresses or clues to where he should go. In one of these addresses he is given a gun and he finds out he has to kill a father who has been abusive to his wife and daughter. The thought of killing someone is hard for Ed to grasp since is  not a violent person however he goes on with his plan.

Ed is a taxi driver so he figures out when the father usually needs a cab and he finds him and offers him a ride. He then offers him a drink and shortly after he takes it the husband passes out in the back seat. He then takes him to a secluded cliff in the town, wakes him up and threatens him with the gun and makes him walk out of the car. He talks to him about how he has been a bad person and is just about to shoot him in the head. He takes the shot, but he purposely misses. He then leaves him there and days later he finds out he left town, never to be seen again.

Second summer reading post

                In the book Ed is a very simple person, he just wants to go on with life staying afloat any way he can, like his job as youngest cab driver in town. When he was a the bank there was a robbery and by talking to the robber and distracting him by making him angry he was able to stop him long enough for the cops after this he goes on with his normal like until he gets a playing card with addresses to go to.

He does not start really wanting to do things until he meets Milla an eighty year old whose husband Jimmy dies sixty years earlier in war. She had been living alone for that entire time with no one to comfort her. So when Ed is assigned her address as a job he realizes he must comfort her and he then decides to act like he is Jimmy to make Milla happy. For the first time in his life he felt like he actually was doing something right and it made him feel really good. I think helping Milla will encourage Ed to go to the other addresses and help the other people rather than before when he did nothing

Summer reading blog post 1

The book I am currently reading is “I am the Messenger” The main character is Ed, who is a 19 year old cab driver in a small town. He does not do a lot besides hang out with his friends and play cards. All he wants to do is just live his life and not worry about anything. But one day he gets a card in the mail and it has addresses on them. After a while of thinking he realizes that he needs to go to them and help someone with a problem. This makes Ed start thinking more about his life and how he wants to help people more rather that sit around.

                A lot of Ed’s friends are similar to him, people just going along in life and not worrying about too many things. His friends are Marv, Ritchie, and Audrey. They help Ed by being beside him in what he does and that is why they are such good friends. No matter what they do they support it. I think his friends will help him do the tasks he is given at the future addresses in the future rather than him doing them by himself. I also think they will work together a lot.

Text vs. World

In the story travel team Danny is a short basketball player who plays to help others score by facilitating. While i was at the gym on Monday i saw a pickup game going on and on the court i saw an adult playing who was probibly about 5 foot at most. however he still ended up having a huge effect on the game. He would drive inside and give other players easy layups with his dropoff passes at the rim and he mad quite a few shots.

He was also like Danny because he was a team player and not demanding the ball and being the most important player on the court. Insteed he let other plays take the glory of making the shot as he got the assist.

This week in the novel Danny's team is improving alot. They have 3 wins now going into the playoffs. However Matt, their only bigman is sick and cant play and they will be playing the Vikings, the team Danny was cut from in the first round.

One interesting thing is that Ty seems like he wants to play on Danny's team rather than the Vikings. Danny in the story notices that the Vikings dont seem like they are having fun when they play and Ty's dad constanly gets mad at Ty because of it. I think Ty will want to play for the warriors rather than the Vikings.

Book Update

Right now in the story Dannys's team finnally got their first win. They played close the entire game and pulled it out at the end. Everyone on the team was very happy that they won. The where going to go to a pizza place to celebrate, but after an hour of being there Danny's dad was nowhere to be seen. It turned out that he got in a car accedent on the way there. Now they didnt have a coach and they had to find someone who could coach there team. After going though all the options Danny was chosen to be the coach since according to his dad it was danny's team.

I think Danny's dad getting in a car accedent shows that he is very unlucky. Just like his first accedent, it happened when things where going really well for him and they got ruined. I think this will really show how strong of people everyone on the team is to see if they can go though have their coach gone and still try to win.

I think Danny being chosen to be coach is a way of showing how much Danny really means to the team. He is not only a player, he is the reason the team even happened and is the leader for the team. I feel like the other players look up to him and will do anything he tells them because they trust him.