Just an Ordinary Day in an Ordinary World

      In the book "For One More Day" (by Mitch Albom) ordinary world is one that you and I live in everyday. In this book the protagonist is a man named, Charley. Charley has a low self esteem and needs to feel like he is important all the time. To feel this way Charley needs someone to tell him how important he is or else he feels useless. The most key thing in Charlie's ordinary world was his mother. His mother always made him feel wanted and good. Other key components were his father, sister and the game of baseball.

     "Mothers support certain illusions about their children, and one of my illusions was that I liked who I was, because she did."(Mitch Albom, For One More Day, pg4)

     In Charlie's ordinary world his mother creates all the peace with her love toward her 2 children while the father is always silently convincing Charley to side with him. When the father leaves it creates the most upset to Charlie's ordinary world and i think is the changing point for his ordinary world to his special world.  Charley doesn't want to leave his ordinary world because a world with his mother makes him feel as though his young dreams could still come true. Also he wants to feel important. Everyone wants to feel important, but you don't need to have someone tell you that you are you should know it yourself.

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What is going on in the book?

    This time I am reading the book, "For One More Day,"  by Mitch Albom. I have just got into it but already I have tonnes of questions. One for instance is why the main character would try so desperately to kill himself , and why is he still alive. I can only think that someone or something supernatural is keeping him alive for some reason.

   

Supernatural                                                                                                                                                                

What I think the reason he is trying to kill himself, was answered in the text after I read a little further. He tried to kill himself because when his mom died he felt as if no one would think of him as special, like she did.(this man is 40 years old.) He started to drink a lot after the funeral and then his wife and daughter moved away from him. the thing that really sent him over the edge was, he was not invited to his daughters wedding.

 A very Depressed man, just like the one in the  book

The Mentors

     I am raeding a book called, "The Five People You Meet in Heaven," written by Mitch Albom. In this book the main character (Eddie) has 5 mentors. The one I have specifically chosen is the third person Eddie meets in heaven. Her name is Ruby. Ruby pier was named after her and that is where Eddie worked his whole life. The main lesson Ruby taught Eddie was to forgive. Eddie had all his anger built up inside him over the years because he hated his father, for being so hard on him when he was young and worse as Eddie grew older. Eddie held his father responsible for ruining his life and making him stay and work at Ruby Pier for the rest of his life when he died. Ruby told him , " Forgive, Edward. Forgive. Do you remember how light you felt when you first came to Heaven?"(Mitch Albom, The 5 People You Meet in Heaven, pg 142) Ruby taught Eddie how to forgive for his third lesson in Heaven. Like I said at the beggining of the piece this was only one of Eddies Mentors. If you want to know more, read the book.

What Is Clasic?

     Classic, in my oppinion, is a story or tale that was publised a while ago and people still pick up the book and love it. If your parent and there friends loved a book or other type of media from there generation and you read it and love it, aswell as your friends or aquantinces it would be considered a classic.
      The qualities of a classic the book I am reading now has are, it with stood the test of time, and more than one generation of people picked it up and loved it. This book was published almost 8 years ago and people are still interested in it. When my mom first told me about this book I thought about an oldie book from when she was my age. I was completely wrong. The book is full of different events and storie lines.I am loving this book just like my mom before I.
     I think future generations of students should read this book because it shows that a book can have more than one major event can happen in a storie. I think future generations should read this book because some people lose interest during a slow part. The great thing about this book is once you start to get bored the whole story loops around to make you interested again in a whole different event, even though all the events are connected.

The Connections in Texts

     "In the stories about life after death, the soul often floats above the good-bye moment, hovering above police cars at highway accidents, or clinging like a spider to the hospital-room ceilings."

In the book I am reading "The Five People You Meet In Heaven"the first dramtic occurance is the maitnance worker, Eddie, at the "Ruby Pier, amusmant park" was killed in a fatal accident of a falling ride. On his way to heaven he see's nothing. The text I'm going to connect to from the book "The Five People You Meet In Heaven" is to  the movie "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part two." The connections I have made are both in my book and in the movie. The characters who die meet at least one person in heaven or in death. On the way to the after life or halfway in between there is" nothing". When the" nothing" is gone it is replaced with a familiar scenary.

Out Come for Tim Blake

      I predict at the end of this book Tim Blake with his determination to find his daughter, will find her and bring her home.

TIM BLAKE

"Syd" I said "Syd is that you"(Linwood Barclay, Fear The Worst, page, 275)
     
       Reading this section of Fear The Worst I figured out how scared Tim Blake actually is for his daughter and how much he loved her before she went missing. When this quote was stated Tim was answering his phone after midnight and when he heard a girls voice he thought it was his daughter and wanted to cry. He misses her a lot. I chose the video Miss You/slipped away by Avril Lavigne  because it is related to the book I'm reading. The song is I miss you and that is what Tim Blake feels, his daughter slipped away from him and he really misses her.

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The Review

       I was always into books written in science fiction form until I started reading Fear The Worst, a suspensful mystery I have come to love. I had always thought mysteries were slow and ended well but, were hard to finish. This book had some slow parts and all books do but, you never knew what was coming on the next page of this amazing book.

The Summary of Linwood Barclay's Fear The Worst

In the town of Milford, Conneticut lived the car sales man Tim Blake. Tim was spending the summer with his daughter Sydney. Sydney was working at the Just Inn Time while living with her father. One strange day she left for work but never came home. Tims whole world is flipped upside down when he goes looking for her in the dangerous perdicament she is in.

The click of reading

           I chose the quote written by Maya Angelou as my sub heading because it explains how reading clicked in my world. When I was younger I never liked to read and read very little. When I read it was for a project until I reached grade 7. In grade 7 my mom introduced me to the books The Outsiders and To Kill a Moking Bird. From then on I started finding books I really liked. ( ie, The Davinci Code written by Dan Brown, Thirteen Days To Midnight written by Patrick Carman and the Eragon cycle written by Christopher Paolini and many more). That is why I chose this quote. To explain what books formed my reading habit.