Entry 9

The book I have been reading the past hour (none stop) is called Heroes Don't Run which is a hard story about a young man wanting to honour his father's death by joining the marines and learns of death and true misery. It is a short, but complicated story. Adam which is the young man's name runs to his grandfather in New York to make him sign a contract to let him join the army. After several put offs, Adam is finally at boot camp where he is trained mercilessly and cruelly by several officers. Adam reminds me of my teacher in 3 rd grade because they both worked hard to protect their students/soldiers even though they were put down a lot. Adam also sounds sort of like me in the way that he is definit about his decission, untill the truth slaps him in the face. Adam meets an official on the battle field named Rosie whom I really admired because when a shell bomd blew nearby them, they were all peppered with junk, but Adam got peppered with Rosie's bones because he had leapt in front of Adam to save his life. I'd like to be that brave. My favorite quote is,"You're not the only one whose changed, Adam. We've all gone through a lot." because his mother shames him for getting hurt and he feels so bad to have these words hurled at him. Sometimes, I don't think war is this good, a lot more people dis and the misery and pain is more indurable. This story isn't true hell and pain. People have died in the real war and we aren't lessening their pain by writing it down. this is a sad book, but has good writing.