The Beginning

     After reading only a few lines, I could tell that this book was an easy read.  I find myself reading this book fast and enjoying it.  I understand this book much more than I did when I first read Notes from the Underground.  This book is more like story so far with thoughts put into it.  I find it interesting and I am eager to see what will happen in the future with the narrator.

     To start off, some parts of this book remind me of Notes from the Underground.  I’m not sure if I think this because we literally just finished reading it yesterday or if there actually is a parallel.  For example, Tony says, “But back then we declined to acknowledge that they had ever been anything like us, and we knew that we grasped life – and truth, and morality, and art – far more clearly than our compromised elders,” (page 12).  This reminded me of our discussion on how we want to be in control of our own lives.  We don’t want to think that since our parents have gone through the same thing, they can tell us what to do.  We want to think we are different from them and are our own individuals.

     Another part of the book reminded me about our discussion in class a while ago about death.  This part was when the school found out that one of their classmates, Robson died.  The narrator states that they heard everything about it, “except what we wanted to know: how, and why, and if it turned out to be murder, by whom,” (page 14).  These kids never even talked to Robson, but once he dies he was what everyone was talking about.  This reminded me of that discussion because people may not notice another person unless something interesting happened that they could now get involved with.  So far I like this book and I wonder what will happen in the future.