I just finished I am the Messenger and it is a story about a man, Ed Kennedy who is a 20-year old man that lives with his dog and works as a cabdriver. His life is very boring until one day he stops a bank robbery and he starts receiving cards in the mail, that tell him addresses to go to.
Ed the main character makes me think about people in the real world, how one small event can affect people in the biggest ways. Ed has a very normal and boring life, but when he receives the cards in the mail he is a different person. He does risky things, which makes me wonder how I would react in those situations. Honestly, I don't think I am brave enough to do all the crazy things Ed does, and I think that sometimes the quietest people can be the best in a crisis. Anyone else faced in Ed's situation might've chickened out, or worse been overly violent. Instead, Ed accepted all the missions he had to complete despite the fact he had no real reason to do them. Like i was saying, I think I am more of a quiet person who likes to play by the rules, but in an example form the book the quietest people are the one's who are more important.
Ed meets so many people and they change his life in so many ways. Even hough Ed lived in a pretty small town, he met so many new people that he had never discovered before. This makes me think that there are so many secrets that can be hidden in people and towns, and the Ed discovered a world he had never known. Going through a experience like that will change a person forever and I am sure that is what happened to Ed.
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