Due 11-11-09 DEADLINE

Ok so im reading that book we gave up in class... DEADLINE. i'm not sure why we gave this book up because it is a good book. i read farther than the other classes had already (in 1 day), and i'm on chapter 8. i started over from the beginning cuz i didnt remember it that much.
SUMAMRY
i'll give you a background cuz if i didnt remember it much im sure you didnt either. So...

Ben Wolf: Diagnosed with some disease where he wouldnt survive a year without treatment...
Refused treatment, says he felt he was going to die early anyways
Was an all-star track runner, switched to football for last year of life (130 puounds, really skinny)
Is not telling his parents about the disease
Sees a therapist, dreams about Hey-Soos
Loves Dallas Suzuki, have an intimate relationship (if you know what i mean if you have read this)
Tries to learn as much truth as he can in his last time of his life, which turns into correecting teachers and mouthing back

Cody Wolf: Ben's younger oldeer brother (an inside joke between them)
Amazing football player
Really depends on Ben

Dad and Mom Wolf: NOt a huge part in the book, mom is drunk drugee, etc.

Rudy McCoy: TOwn drunk
Ex-priest
Reads books alot

Coach: Football coach
Girlfriend died
Family friend of WOlfs

Marla Dawson: Therapist
Paid $150 a day
Talks with Ben about everything

Doctor: Diagnosed ben
wants to do everyting he can

Hey-Soos: Imaginary person (i think) in dreams of Ben's
Gives ben advice like a therapist would
We're not quite sure who he is but he was once alive and will be again
Kinda like spanish jesus
wears robe and sandals and cloak

Sorry for the long summary, but those are the main characters and the ones that i may mention and now you kinda know the backgroound.

REFLECTION

I think that it's really sad that BEn would just accept his fate, and that he is going to die, just when life is getting great. i'm so tempted to skip to the end and see if he does die. it cant happen! in the story he says that he has never imagined himself growing up, and that he just is ok with dieing. marla says he is one extrordanary kid cuz shes never met a kid who would refuse treatment and not tell his family. if i were him i would have told my parents right away, and had them with me. I also would have excepted treatment. i love my friends and family, and i couldnt just give up on life. i have so much longer to live and i want to live it out without rushing it. when i think of him accepting this, i just think his life might not have been that great in the first place.

Another thing i think is that Hey-Soos is really him, dead, or him from the future when he is dead. i thnk he has come back to help him deal with it or sonething. if you think tat is to unrealisitc, it may just be that it is his concience speaking to him. Maybe it is just his imagination, making it up so he feels more sure about himself or restrained. in one part of the book he says "I know everyone you know.
maybe that is cuz he is him or his concience. i dont htink it is Jesus even though he is Christian. i'm not sure why, but i thiunk Jesus woudl want his name pronounced right.

Poor Cody is going to be so suprised when he dies. I mean, thats what the book points to him now, him dying, so i'm gunna expect that now when i reflect. the part right before i stopped reading says "he was counting on me next year. i mean, no coach is gpoing to let me havbe anything to do with their football team, but Codyt leans on me.. just having me around . .. ." eirlier in one of the passages it says that "Cody wil be one pissed quarterback when he figures out how long i've known." Poor Cody, it might as well ruin his career. I just dont htink that Ben is making the right choice, but sometimes the right choice isnt the easier one. his is easier to him now, just to accept death. i think that he will end up changing his life, wanting his life to be good for as long as possible, not waiting and witing for the given time to live to end.

this book is sad and raw, but not as much sa the one for lit skills CLASS, the actual group one

Emma Baldwin

P.S. i commented on Olivia Lenzo's blog (cuz she coimmented on my last week's) and FRan reckers'

if you want to read the better comment, read frans i think olivias one is just plain SILLY haha lol
(im eating my reeces pieces and twizlers as you can prolly tell)