Choice Book Report Q4

            The book I read was Among the Enemy. The main character in this book was Mathias, Mathias is a quite person. He is only 11 years old and he is going through a lot. He is illegal since he was born because of a population law that a woman can only have two children. Mathias has had a rough life always being on the run. Not knowing if he will be alive tomorrow. He usually has a group of two other littler children with him but he gets separated from them for most of the book. During that time he shows his true self. Mathias is a very very cautious person, He would always be looking for something to use. He is an observant person that was like how in the beginning he found a nail to cut a seatbelt. He doesn’t trust people very easily because even the people he has met before could have turned on him. The number one thing that Mathias wants is freedom for all third children. The reason for the law is that they don’t have enough food. When Mathias is in the population polices (the bad guys) HQ he is invited in with open arms from the commander (the guy in charge) and he treats him like a son. Mathias has a dark and cruel side has he expresses towards the commander. Mathias wants the commander to die a lot and he is always thinking of the bad things he is doing to innocent third children. The only thing holding Mathias back from killing the commander is that he will die and what is happening to the other children won’t stop.

            Mathias’ loving side though is a very great part of him. He is not a person that is going to blame it on someone else when it is really their fault. Mathias has a lot of sadness though from taking full responsibility of his actions and some of other peoples actions too. Like when he was riding away from a gun fight in the woods that he stumbled upon, later learning that his friends might have died along with an adult. Mathias took full responsibility for their deaths he thought it was his fault for about 10-20 peoples deaths (there was a truck crash before) for an eleven year old kid that is a lot of responsibility that he took and he was morning about it for a month if not more. His incredible capacity for love is intense, because he not only loved the people that he didn’t know. Mathias is an overall great leader even if he doesn’t think he can do that much, he takes responsibility for all his actions. I think that there are a lot of people in my LA class that could use that a little, not to be saying names but *cough* *cough* Aidan *cough*. I thought it was a great book. I really liked it.