Monday, January 23, 2012
Looking forward to starting to read Crutcher's Deadline
Tonight, after I finish about one hundred pages of reading in my Assessment and Instruction text book, I will joyfully begin to read Deadline by Chris Crutcher. I am looking forward to becoming lost in a book for the purpose of homework; it's been a while since I have had the pleasure of reading fiction as an assignment. Becoming familiar with it by reading the back of it, I know a little bit of what to expect. So this high school senior learns he has one year to live...and he doesn't tell anyone!? What?! How is that even possible?! Right away I am almost angry...this kid's parents MUST know! I think it's funny that the last line on the back of the book says "What will Ben do when he realizes he isn't the only person who's keeping one [a secret]? WELL!!! what makes Ben think he is the only one who can keep secrets? Especially one as serious as this? I am predicting a suspenseful story of "what's going to happen?" and some anger on my part for a kid who'll keep this kind of secret, who knows, maybe I'll begin to understand him as I read....
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I am a few pages in and I think you will really start to like the character Ben. He is funny, and witty, and I think you'll understand why he doesn't want to tell anyone. I thought it was absurd too when I first saw that he wasn't going to tell anyone, but as I started to read, it started making sense. I also wonder who else is keeping secrets or if he will be able to keep it a secret the entire time! It is actually fun to have this type of reading as an assignment, I agree! Good luck with the other reading too......sounds captivating? haha
ReplyDeleteOk, I finished it! Interestingly enough...I never warmed up to Ben completely, or rather I never felt like I "knew" him, but I did LOOOVE it, couldn't put it down...more about it in my new post though!
ReplyDeleteIf you look back now to the Anticipation Guide at the end of Chapter two in our textbook (Groenke & Schreff) are there additional themes noted that you connected with (or hadn't really thought about before) which also serve as other reasons why you really liked this book?
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