1st response

Jaehak
English 11-1
September 8, 2008

Messenger

Response#1, pp.1-55
Response type #1: Reaction and Evaluation


‘Messenger’ by Lois Lowry is a story about Matty is only a person who is able to communicate with other communities. The reason why he is only a communicator in his village is he never gets incidents from wild animals which live dangerous forest where outside boundaries of his village, unlike other his neighbors do. I like this book because of several reasons.

One of the reasons why I favor this book is because of the relationship between people in the story. The author conveys the personality of characters indirectly by how each character deal with others. Because of the story’s condition, there are many people meetings which make my feeling interested and focused on how the story flows. Especially, I like the relationship between matty, a massager, and seer, a blind man. Matty said “I like reading to you, seer” (page 20) because the blind man is not able to read book, and the blind man informs “No. It’s all an illusion” (pg5) for feared Matty who do not contact dangerous forest yet. Both support each of their weakness very well. I like this part because this part attracts my heart to be choked. The reason is egoism is expanding quickly in modern society.

Another reason why I relish this book is because of the special ability of matty. In this summer, many kinds of the movies come out to the theaters, and most of those are about the hero such as incredible Hulk, dark knight, Super hero, and etc. I realize that the trend of the movie story is about hero, and the movies become popular because only one reason that they are fun. This is why I start to focus on the story easily by matty’s kind of special ability that “The vines had never reached out for him. The trees seemed, sometimes, almost to part and usher him through,” (pg 9) even though others experience that “Forest closed in and entangled people who had tried to travel beyond.” (pg 9) As look at this situation, I feel that I want to have a special ability that nobody has. The reason is it sounds like everyone needs me.

I have read this book one third part of the book. I think the story is taking on rising action. Matty is planning to attend the trade market, even though he does not have anything to trade. So, I predict that the conflicts are coming out soon when Matty attends to the trade market with climax, and because of that, he is going to hide in the forest where nobody is able to come.