Messenger

Recently I started an incredible novel called Messenger by Luis Lowery. He has taken me in to levels of reading in which I have never thought about. Last year, for a reading project I read The Giver. Like with other books we were told to find the main idea and concept of the piece however, I found out that the significance with the way he writes effects the way on how you look at the book. I had to get used to his ideas in order to make them seem worth while. I enjoyed reading that book and am again coming back and reading the sequel.

What the author is writing about, being fiction are different places where each of their laws and governs are completely different and the interest in society. He takes different jobs in our world today and turns them into dreams. Such as taking a mail man and making him a messenger who now has the responsibility to cross through the forbidden forest in order to leave Village and go to different places. Another main part of their town are the New Ones. Everyone is new at something except for those who start off there. In Village, the concept of newcomers is exciting and is truly important. The villagers take time in welcoming their new guests except for now. There has seem to come some difference in the air starting with the schoolteacher who has been acting strangely and protesting against any more people coming in to Village.

Being new in this place, Matty (our main character) has learn to overcome the changes from his past life. He had escaped from his old place which was filled with broken laws and willing pain. He and Seer (a blind man who took him in when he needed help) try to figure out the mischief that is happening in their town while they discover the differences of life.