Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Free Choice Catch by Will Leitch

For my next reading book I picked Catch by Will Lietch. This book caught my eye because the man who wrote the book is from Mattoon, Illinois, which is close to where I live Mason City, Illinois. When you are from a small town like Mattoon and Mason City you like to listen to how much are towns are similar so that is another reason why I picked this book. So far I am about 25 pages into the book and it really reminds me of my Graduation Day from high school. Where most of the kids really do not care about listening to the speaker on stage at the Graduation, they are more worried about just getting there diploma and where the party is going to be at tonight. They surely did not know if they were going to go to college or stay home and get a job in town somewhere. Well after Graduation was over most of my class went to one house and stayed there all night and hung out. Tim’s class did the same thing. Tim was lucky because he was the one with the cool parents who let his friends come over to party as long as everyone gave there keys up so his parents could make sure everyone was staying. Then the day after Graduation hits and your parents are making sure you have a summer job and are thinking about what you are going to do after summer is over. Just like my town parents’ care and want their children to do better than they did.

1 comment:

  1. I knew you would be able to relate to the novel, Julie! I did, too, growing up in my small, Illinois town. Have you met Helena yet?

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