This month I read a book called I Am The Messenger by Markus Zusak. The book is about an underage cab driver with no such future, a pathetic card player, who is madly in love with his best friend, and is very fond over his coffee drinking dog. The Doorman. His life is the usual routine and inadequate. Until Ed Kennedy stops a bank robbery. That’s when he gets his first ace in his mail.

This book was really good as Ed went through many different places and met many different people. He taught he was useless and pathetic but as he met these people it became clear to the reader and Ed that one doesn’t need to be famous, rich, or achieve the wildest of dreams to cause change in the world. But to be a human. It also came with good laughs and grip worthy chapters.

My favorite character from the book is Ed. Ed can be pitiful but can sure show bravery throughout the book. Like facing strong people, terrifying ones, heck even facing a large group of teenage boys. One quote to prove this is, “‘That bastard put shame in my family.” “So did your daughter” I can’t believe the words I’m hearing from my own mouth. “You better get moving, boy, or you two’ll go home like twins.’”

My favorite quote from the book is, ““Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.” This shows that it doesn’t matter what people look like from the inside. What matters is how the way they are and how they treat others with kindness. That is the beauty inside all of us.