From: Beth Wright <bethlibrarian>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 09:34:00 -0800 (PST)

Oooo...my dictionary says 'angel' comes from the Greek
'angelos' which means messenger.

Which would make the author God, right? At least within the pages of this book. Which authors always are.

Thanks, Ginny.

Beth Wright

--- Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse at education.wisc.edu> wrote:

> 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
>
> *
> >>> "Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson" <kjjohnso at erols.com>
> 02/28/06 9:46 AM
> >>>
>
> 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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