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From: Kellye Carter Crocker <kelcrocker>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:51:56 -0600
Well, I'm glad I spoke up (even at the risk of appearing foolish) because, although I read the book quite a while ago, I don't recall getting some of these things out of it. I'm going to take another look. Thanks for the thoughts!
Kellye
on 2/28/06 11:34 AM, Beth Wright at bethlibrarian at yahoo.com wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
> ***********************************************************
>>
>>
>> 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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Received on Tue 28 Feb 2006 11:51:56 AM CST
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:51:56 -0600
Well, I'm glad I spoke up (even at the risk of appearing foolish) because, although I read the book quite a while ago, I don't recall getting some of these things out of it. I'm going to take another look. Thanks for the thoughts!
Kellye
on 2/28/06 11:34 AM, Beth Wright at bethlibrarian at yahoo.com wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
> ***********************************************************
>>
>>
>> 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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>> CCBC-Net mailing list
>> CCBC-Net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
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