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True Believer: Patrick, Final Scene
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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 07:32:14 -0500
I realize that many within the CBCC-Net community haven't had a chance to read True Believer - yet.
I'm wondering if I'm the only reader - so far - who finds Patrick to be a complex, compelling secondary character. I mentioned him in my message last week "...dear Patrick with his two shirts, so committed to Biology and also to LaV. We're breathless as we read his personal story interlaced with his take on the nature of evil and and also of evolution, all on the same couple of pages."
Does anyone want to comment on Patrick and how you understand his role in True Believer? Personally I hope we'll have an opportunity to read more about him in the final volume of this trilogy.
By the way: Who mentioned the gift of the art book? My reading of that gift choice tells me more about the giver than anything else. He wants LaV to understand... That gift is given during the final scene
(act?) when almost the entire cast is on-stage, everyone but Lester, as I recall. A huge challenge for an author to manage.
- Ginny
Ginny Moore Kruse gmkruse at education.wisc.edu Cooperative Children's Book Center www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/ A Library of the School of Education, University of Wisconsin Madison
Received on Thu 26 Jul 2001 07:32:14 AM CDT
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 07:32:14 -0500
I realize that many within the CBCC-Net community haven't had a chance to read True Believer - yet.
I'm wondering if I'm the only reader - so far - who finds Patrick to be a complex, compelling secondary character. I mentioned him in my message last week "...dear Patrick with his two shirts, so committed to Biology and also to LaV. We're breathless as we read his personal story interlaced with his take on the nature of evil and and also of evolution, all on the same couple of pages."
Does anyone want to comment on Patrick and how you understand his role in True Believer? Personally I hope we'll have an opportunity to read more about him in the final volume of this trilogy.
By the way: Who mentioned the gift of the art book? My reading of that gift choice tells me more about the giver than anything else. He wants LaV to understand... That gift is given during the final scene
(act?) when almost the entire cast is on-stage, everyone but Lester, as I recall. A huge challenge for an author to manage.
- Ginny
Ginny Moore Kruse gmkruse at education.wisc.edu Cooperative Children's Book Center www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/ A Library of the School of Education, University of Wisconsin Madison
Received on Thu 26 Jul 2001 07:32:14 AM CDT
