Ren is now growing up and getting used to the scene. Being a theif doesn't bug him as it used. There is a kind of numbness that the reader gets with Ren, as though we're helping with the stealing and yet, we aren't really doing it. This week, the threesome, (Ren, Benjamin, and Tom) settle in an old mine town in the house of Mrs. Sands; who is the widow of one of the many miners buried in the mine on the edge of town due to a freak device explosion. She is described as, "A full head taller then Ben, with great broad shoulders and thick arms" (135). Classic. I'm finding this book to be just a little too cliche; I can see through a lot of it into metaphors and lead offs to other famous works I've read. Once settled in, the three meet with the doctor and arrange the next activitiesl; Grave Digging.
Grave Digging only phases Ren. He doesn't like the thought of it (who would), though Tom and Benjamin don't find it all that great either. To make things weirder, and this is where we're losing reality, one of the corpse bags turns out to contain a living man, wrongly buried, barely alive. They end up taking the man back to Mrs. Sands. This thoroughly freaks out Ren, as it would anyone. Tom kept his cynical grumpy look on it "What are we gonna do with him? (150). The effect on Ben is the expected; he doesn't like it, but he has to do it. There is something behind Ben I am waiting to catch. Why is he a theif? What happened that made him lead this life? What are his plans for Ren? So far Ren has merely got housing and a little money. The book is still lacking significance.
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3 comments:
It sounds like you wouldn't put this book in your top ten. It seems that the author writes the book from a thief's point-of-view because it was said that its almost like the reader is helping with the stealing. I agree that grave digging would kind of weird me out, but I'd be glad (and a little freaked out) that I had saved someone's life by digging up his grave. This kind of makes me wonder, who would bury a live person?
Ren has gone from a saint to a completely corrupted individual. This transformation shows how people react when they lose what they love; they lose their belief. He's lost his faith and morals and now accepts this life of stealing and crime. Great book.
Its interesting to see how each character to responds to the obviously shocking event of digging up someone who was buried alive. It kind of shows how Ren is really reluctant to do this, as the first time something goes astray he freaks out. Tom on the other hand just sees it as time wasted showing his only motivation is the money.
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