From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:04:49 -0600

About the main character who "doesn't exist" at the end of I Am the Messenger...
  Has it occurred to anyone else that the main character is - perhaps - an angel? - Ginny
 
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Ginny Moore Kruse gmkruse at education.wisc.edu
 
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>>> "Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson" <kjjohnso at erols.com> 02/28/06 9:46 AM
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I loved Messanger. It's many months since I read it, but I thought the

point of the ending was not so much that the author is the one pulling the puppet strings, that the author is the one sending the messages, but that the main character (whose name I'm blanking on) realizes that he isn't real. That he doesn't really exist. That he's nothing more than a character in a novel. The shock of that. The looking around and suddenly understanding that nothing you thought was real, is. What then? What comes next, when truth, or what you believe to be the truth, shatters?... I thought this was an unusual and unsettling ending, but also rather brilliant. Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson

----- Original Message ----- From: "Kellye Carter Crocker" kelcrocker at mchsi.com

Hi Beth, I agree with the "too much of a trick" people. I didn't see the foreshadowing and the revelation was a let down to me because it seemed so inconceivable. Also, the Big Message seemed to be "you are the message," which struck me as obvious and preachy. But, honestly, I've wondered if there's something I'm not getting? :-)
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