Blog One

This book was very good in so many ways, but in so many other ways it was very different in the ways that it told stories. First of all, it was different because I couldn't really connect with the characters because one of Eddie's best friend died because Sheetrock fell on top of him. I have never really had a best friend die but I have moved away from my best friends once. It is kind of the same thing but not a lot, I still lost my best friend, the one that I hung out with the most. I still can talk to her but only on the phone and that is basically like talking to a ghost because she is not there talking face to face with me. I only get to see her like maybe once a year, sometimes not even, we usually send letters through cards that our parents get. Billy can come back if he wants and be right beside Eddie if he is in real trouble. This story was also good because it had a great lesson to teach kids with. To stand up for yourself and never give up. Eddie went and talked to the people at the church not to come but they did so he had to speak again at the school board meeting to tell that banning Warren Peece was a stupid idea. He also helped other people stick up for themselves because Montana West spoke in front of the whole school board to tell them how foolish it was to ban the book Warren Peece.
In chapter 1, Eddie's dad dies in a horrible freak accident. He was fixing a car and the tire exploded right in front of him and his face gets blown off and blood is everywhere. The other horrible thing that happened was Billy Bartholomew was mad that his dad wasn't there because he had to run an errand. This is the worst month for Eddie because of these things that happen and he is the first to find these two people dead. He is totally devastated because now he has to live with his mom and they don't get along as much as him and his dad were.
In chapter 2, Billy just realizes that he is dead says that he is twenty-one grams. He also says that he is going to stay around and help Eddie through this tough time in his life. He doesn't exactly know how to make Eddie know that he is there since he doesn't have a voice box, is invisible, and only weighs twenty-one grams, it's going to be a little tough but he thinks he will be able to make it work. Eddie's mind has a really hard time keeping on track and not wondering off. Eddie's 'Question Man inside him, the Man Who Seeks the Truth no Matter the Consequence(Crutcher 24). In this part of the book, it also goes back to a time when Billy and Eddie were eight and they were in Sunday School and talking about Jonah in the Old Testament when Jonah gets stuck inside of a whale and gets spit up two or three days later. Eddie's mind wonders off and thinks that; if there were a real human inside a real whale it would be seriously dark and you'd be working your way through all kinds of slime if you were looking for a way out, which you most certainly would be (Crutcher 25). In this chapter, Eddie also decides to become a mute because his talking is always some sort of problem and he is tired of it.
In chapter 3, Eddie's mom leaves for church and Eddie decides that he is going to stay home becuase he doesn't really feel like going this time. After his mom leaves he kind of wishes that he went with her because it is raining really hard and it is lightning and thundering outside and he is getting a little scared that he is all alone inside the house. He sits down in the basement and watches TV. Eddie gets scared kind of easily. There is nothing on and he flips through the channels and finally he finds something that is scary, it is about a haunted house. Now while this might be, given his current emotional state, a good time to see if he can find Lassie on the Animal Channel, he can't pry his gaze from the screen(Crutcher 39). It comes to the most intense part of the show and tight when that happens, CRACK! a bolt of lightning hits really close to his house. He screams, his hearts is beating so hard that it might as well come out of his chest, the lights go out in the house. A mouse runs over his feet and he jumps up and runs out the door in the freezing rain barefoot, his feet are so cold that he doesn't feel them getting all torn up by the sharp rocks on the road.
In chapter 15, Eddie joins the group Youth For Christ and he is going to speak in front of the church and they think that he is going to tell them to go to the school board meeting and be for the banning of Warren Peece. It turns out that he is going to actually tell them that the banning is bogus. He tells them how he made friends in the book and how it would be awfully rude of them to take that away from him. He also tell them about homosexuality and that it showed him to be brave in tough situations and not get scared or freaked out. When he tells the church this Reverend Tarter gets mad and tells people to cave him in so they can catch him and ask him why he said those things that he said. When he tries to escape, he sees a glass window with the Virgin Mary on it, below that window was a ledge he climbs up the ledge and looked down over the congregation and tells them about Jesus and what he would do, and tells them that he might be Jesus because when Jesus was born, he didn't know he was Jesus, he is saying that he could be the next Jesus.

As you can see this book is kind of hard to relate to when it comes to the main part of the story, he is against banning a book, I would do it but its not the number one of my life long list of things to do before I die. I haven't really gone up in front of a lot of people and spoke my mind, to be honest, I hate standing up in front of people and speaking my mind. Although I am getting better at it. Overall this book was okay, I mean it had a great lesson to be learned in it.