Deadline!!

I am reading Deadline by Chris Crutcher. So far, I really like this book. It is a book that I do not want to put down. This is actually a book that I could just keep reading and finish it. So far, the main character, Ben Wolf, is an interesting person. Through out high school, he has been on the cross country team and since the doctor told him he only had a year to live, he wanted to “go out with a bang”. So, he decided to quite cross country and go out for the football team. The author describes him as a scrawny little thing. He is a fast runner though, so he is good at football. His younger brother also plays football, but they are actually in the same grade because his mom held him back a year. His younger brother likes having Ben on the football team because they were so use to playing football together through out there entire life. His brother wants to play college football, but only thinks he could play if Ben was on the team also. They live in a small town which I can relate to because grew up in a small town. I can not wait to finish this book.

Deadline

Now that we have to read a second book, I chose to read Deadline by Chris Crutcher. This book is about a student who is just starting his senior in high school and he went into the doctors to get a physical for sports. The doctor had some news for him and wanted him and his parents to come in so he could give them the news. He went to see his doctor without his parents (his parents did not even know that the doctor wanted to see them) and the news that was so important for them to see him was that he had rare form of cancer and is only expected to live for one more year. I chose to read this book because when I was just starting my freshman year in high school, my family got the news that my grandma had cancer and only had a year to live. Then we got the news that she only had five to eight months to live. She made it to eight months. She passed away on May 26, 2005, a couple days before my sister graduated from high school. I think that I will somewhat be able to relate to this character because I know what his family is going through. I am very excited to read this book.

modern audience

In Thirteen Reasons Why, I think that this book is written for modern day teenagers to read this. I can not really see an older person reading this book and liking it. I also can not see this book being read back in 1900’s either. I think it was written for today’s society. There are so many suicides that occur with people not even knowing about them. Suicide ranges from celebrities to maybe a best friend or even a family member. I know there are signs for suicide, but people do not really think about the signs until it is too late. Like they said in the book, changing you appearance is one of the first signs for suicide, well, I know a lot of people who have gotten there hair chopped off. I do not think about the suicide side of them doing that because I have known several people who have chopped there hair off. I think suicide is something you do not really think about because you notice a lot of changes in people, so you do not think of it as something bad. When I was a sophomore in High School, I chopped my hair of to where it was spiky in the back and longer in the front, I did not do that because I was having suicide thoughts, I just did if for something different. People could have an appearance change because of the time of the year (summer, winter).