From: Julie Corsaro <juliecorsaro2>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:29:33 -0500

On the topic of angels/religious symbolism: the barefoot runner asks Ed is he is a saint, and the daughter of the abusive man asks Ed if he is there to save her and her mother. Perhaps, Ed is a dark angel since he tells the man he has come to punish him for his behavior towards his family.

Julie

>From: Beth Wright <bethlibrarian at yahoo.com>
>To: ccbc-net at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu
>Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] I am the Messenger - SPOILER ALERT, con't
>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
> >
> >
>***********************************************************
> >
> >
> > 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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