From: Beth Wright <bethlibrarian>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:04:06 -0800 (PST)

Ooooo...even more to think about...Ed says he isn't the messenger, he is the message. Which would make the author character the messenger/angel? Although the real author
(Zusak) would still be God.

Heady stuff for a Tuesday.

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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