I am the messenger post two

My main character, Ed Kennedy is very complex, but at the same time very simple. He is obsessed with finding out his mission, and who is sending him on this crazy hunt of cards. He is in love with his best friend, Audrey. He desperately wants to have sex with her. In fact this is a main topic of the story. He is always talking about how he is trying to get her in bed, or dreaming about them conforming as one. A constant theme is that each address that he goes to he learns something new about himself. Whether it’s that sex isn’t everything or that being hard on people isn’t always the answer. He learns about himself and the world around him.  He loves his dog and he is starting to learn more about Ed as well. The dog is becoming closer and closer to Ed as the story goes on. Also Audrey’s character is developing quiet well.  You learn about her past what she is doing and what she wants to do in the future. Ed is learning compassion by helping an old lady. Bravery by stopping a rapist, and humanity by helping an over worked girl.

I Am The Messenger (summer reading post one)

My book is I AM THE MESSENGER by Mark Zusak

The most major character in my book so far is Ed Kennedy. Ed is the main character in my story. He is a 19 year old cab driver. For a long time his life is boring. He has a small group of friends who likes to play cards. Really the only thing he has accomplished is partly stopping a bank robbery. Then one day he gets a card in the mail. Not a card from a store, a playing card. The card is the ace of diamond. The card has three addresses and three times on it. They read: 

45 Edgar Street, midnight

13 Harrison Avenue, 6 PM

6 Macedoni Street, 5:30 am.

Confused Ed tries to figure out what he is supposed to do.

After a few days of consideration Ed decides to go to the first address. What he finds there is shocking. He witnesses a rape case. He parks away from the house and sees a man. He is pushing and suffocating a screaming woman. He then rips her clothes off and pushes her in the door. This happens every day, for the past year. He is conflicted.