Alma Katsu
Pages #45-62
While reading
my book this time it was rather easy for me to find text connections. It
actually was easy to make a text to self-connection reading because during one
of Lanny’s flash backs, a character that was being introduced turned out to
have the same last name as my boyfriend. The two of then share the last name
Poirier. So that text to self was easy.
There were many
things while reading, that I found myself commenting on this time. A lot of things
were being told, we find out so much background story to the main character
Luke. I found out that Luke is still mourning his mother’s death which only
happened a short time ago. When his mother died he had a pretty traumatic experience,
her body began to move again after 15 minutes of her heart not beating. She opened
her eyes and looked at Luke and her hand began to squeeze his back. Luke wasn’t
sure this was the cause of something supernatural or not. Luke’s mother died
just after he went through a really hard divorce with his wife. But what made
matters worse was that his mother passed away in the very hospital he works at.
Another one of the things I found myself commenting on was the fact that Lanny
just out right told Luke and the police that she stabbed a man to death and
left his body in the middle of the woods.
I believe what makes Luke want Lanny
for is the fact that she is immortal. Immortality is something almost everyone
thinks of having. To live forever would be quit something to achieve. I don’t think
it’s just the fact she is beautiful, it’s the combination of these two things.
I think in the end Luke will try and become whatever Lanny is.
What immortality
means in this setting of this book, is that these people who are like Lanny
have been this way since they settled this town. The town was helped shaped by
these people; the town is the way it is because of them. They made it what it
is today in the present time.
If you had the chance to be immortal, would you take it? Why? Why not?
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