Wednesday, January 25, 2012
We Were Here....
I finished Deadline and am back to reading We Were Here...I love the title...anyway, while reading I came across a part that I wanted to share for coincidences sake :) Miguel, the main character is in a group home for boys because of some trouble he got into back home in Stockton Cali. (he won't say what it is he did yet), and he is refusing to talk to any of the other boys so he starts to read. He makes a deal with himself to read every book on the group home's bookshelf, then he mentions none other than.... MALCOLM X! He says that he heard Malcolm X read everything he could get his hands on in prison and he (Miguel) would do the same. I found the coincidence that Ben Wolf from Deadline and now Miguel from We Were Here both admire Malcolm X! Just felt like sharing :)
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Great connection Casey! I had forgotten that Miguel also starts on a reading-journey by reading Malcom X. So glad you reminded me. I think the reading Miguel does in this book does allow him to "free his mind" in a way similiar to Malcom. One of my own favorite books of all time is Their Eyes Were Watching God and if I remember right, Miguel eventually reads that too. Is that right? I'll have to go back to look that up.
ReplyDeleteIn the meantime I have a question for you. I know you have a passion for literature. Would you say the feelings you have about books are similiar to the ones Miguel is starting to develop at this stage in the story?