I Am The Messenger Analysis

big event and lead Ed to his next card and clues. 2. Why does Ed feel guilty at the end of the game?

Eddie Rake was a man with power. He used his power to train and better the young men of Messina. However, Eddie had love and admiration for his players. In John Grishams’ Bleachers, Eddie Rake is seen as a Hero, savior, all powerful. What people do not realize is that his love is power, love can always be power but power will never be love. Eddie Rake has done his best to use his power to influence the entire town of Messina. He may not have known that he did, but Eddie was able to help everyone in that small town have a taste of greatness. The Spartan football team most of all.

Fortunately, the novel reclaims momentum and suspense as Ed is tasked with Ace of Spades, particularly 23 Clown Street. The second assignment, 23 Clown Street, provides the audience insight regarding Beverly’s (Ma) hatred towards Ed and the legacy of his father. Initially, Zusak creates apprehension as Ed visits Melusso’s restaurant various times without any change. Apprehension escalates as a conflict is introduced: Ed’s mother dines with another man. This moment transcends the need for language, and empathy is truly established. Zusak allows for the audience to experience the shock, anger, and sadness in which Ed is enduring. Ed’s confrontation with Ma at her house creates tension as Ed finally questions her hatred. Unsurprisingly, Ma mercilessly scorns Ed to the extent that the audience experiences the excruciating pain and confusion that Ed endures. This portrayed flawlessly through characterization and powerful figurative language that truly captures the intensity of Ed’s emotions. However, Zusak bewilders the readers as Ed finally rises up to his mother. This scene provides satisfaction to the audience as he exclaims every thought, emotion that has been concealed within him. Simultaneously, the audience witnesses a significant progression of Ed’s character as he no longer accepts the criticism of his mother. However, it is Ed’s epiphany of the definition of success which astonishes the readers as they bear witness to Ed’s development.

As Ed deciphered each message, his capabilities were being tested to the limits and without consciously knowing, he uncovered a deep sense of compassion and benevolence. These attributes would have been non-existent in him if he did not get the

In order to evaluate texts using Intertextuality, it is important to define it as a form of critical literary analysis. Charles Bazerman of the University of California at Santa Barbara writes: “We create our texts out of the sea of former texts that surround us, the seas of language we live in. And we understand the texts of others within that same sea…the relation each text has to the texts surrounding it, we call intertextuality” (83). While there are several definitions of intertextuality, Bazerman’s covers the most ground. In this broad sense, intertextuality refers but is not limited to the following components of which written works are comprised: borrowed culture, borrowed genre and theme, and more specifically, borrowed text within

Markus Zusak’s, The Messenger features the protagonist Ed Kennedy, and how he completed each mission of aces; diamonds, clubs, spades and hearts. The suit of spades was symbolic to Ed’s overall mission as Ed had to dig through truths about himself. Before the suit of spades Ed’s thought of himself was that he was worth nothing, evident through the narration of Ed’s monologue. The suit of spades saw Ed wanting more for his life, evident through the characterisation of Ed, the changes in his monologue.

In this book suzack explains Eds creativity by narrating and switching back and forth to what Ed might be thinking. This is something that had a big impact on understanding the book and how creative Ed was in his decision making. “I realize it's the sound of a man sobbing. Tonight, however, I don't care. I have to kill him because slowly, almost effortlessly and with complete contempt, this man kills his wife and child every night. And it's me alone, Ed Kennedy, a less than ordinary suburbanite, who has the chance to end it.” In this quote we are in the mind of Ed Kennedy the dropout cab driver. He is currently in a situation where he is witnessing an iniscent family is suffering very bad because of the horrific dad who comes home every day to rape the mom. In this quote we know exactly what Ed is planning to do and instead of doing the normal thing, which is reporting everything he saw to the police he decided to take matters into his own hands. This call for action is a very risky move which Ed doesn't realize just yet. This shows how Suzack explains the creativity and young mindsets of his character by using an example and letting you think how a responsible adult would handle this situation compared to Ed, who is ready to kill a man or his mistakes. This shows the creative mind young mindset by taking us through every emotion in his

Imagine what a nineteen year old’s life was like if they had to face the man that saves them, only to realize that this man had also killed their father. It is one thing for a taxi driver to play a game of cards with friends, but another for him to be playing with his life at stake. I Am The Messenger is a novel written by Markus Zusak. When young taxi driver, Ed Kennedy is faced with the challenge of preventing a bank robbery, he soon discovers the first playing card that will lead him on a mission. Ed is the only one in his family who has no desire to achieve success, but with a little bit of guidance he works up the nerve to visit the addresses written on his playing cards. Ed is sent to help a rape victim, a poor family, an overwhelmed

In 1971 at the start of Nixon’s war on drugs, before the 0000s crack epidemic; before the advent of political tactics used to demonstrify ghetto neighborhoods succeeded in bastardizing its urban youth, Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five recorded what is considered one of the greatest urban narratives of his time. In his rap “The Message Pt. 2” Flash described the daily occurrences and harsh realities of his ghetto life in vivid detail. Now 45 years later in the midst of black lives matter, at a place in America where black lives must be affirmed through hashtags and protest, many are upset that the American art people have come to rely on, to tell the stories and narrate the experiences of being poor and black, only exist to valorize the crime, money, drugs and sex that come from being poor.

Clemmy Sue will always be by your side. I see the color red, the name Harry and home improvements in your future.”

In the book “I am the messenger” by Markus Zusak, It is all best categorized as a coming of age book. Ed Kennedy starts to realize his worth and he also began to believe in himself at the end. He learned how to fight for his dreams and for himself. It surprised him that he can also succeed just like his siblings if he only put his mind onto his dreams. Ed transforms from a self-absorbed Taxi driver into a genuine hero, reaching out in a interesting, unsentimental way to the others he's bound to find on the cards he receives. Sometimes his successes are sweet and simple but others are sickeningly painful and incomplete.

Except, when he mistakenly foils a bank robbery he begins to receive aces that send him on missions. These missions require him to help different people in some way from giving company to an old lady, to filling up a service for a priest. They also direct him to help people in his community, friends, and family, with each mission also teaching Ed something. So when faced with the thief from earlier, and the person who has been sending him on these missions Ed comes to the same conclusion, that he has a life that he loves, with purpose, and he is not ready to give it up

I Am the Messenger is a great book that tells of a guy named Ed, who loves to play cards, but suddenly starts getting messages in the mail that are marked on playing cards.. Ed is practically a “nobody” not having much educational success, his father died some time ago and his mother hasn’t had great success in life either. The story basically starts off with a bank robbery, Ed and his friend Marv are at the bank when the gunman arrives and demands to Marv his car keys. The gunman gets the keys and jumps into the car, in which he drops his gun, Ed then takes the gun and holds down the gunman until the cops arrive. At the trial, Ed testifies against him, and as they pass each other the Gunman tells Ed, “Every time you look in the mirror, remember you are looking at a dead man”. This starts Ed’s journey. Ed lives alone in his apartment (that is owned by his boss) with his dog named the Doorman and Ed is a cab driver. He is insanely in love with his friend, Audrey and it is clear that she loves him back but they won’t embrace their feelings. Several times a week, Ed, Marv, Audrey, and a close friend named Ritchie play cards together. Soon after Ed anonymously receives his first playing card, Ace of diamonds. Written on it are three addresses (it’s always three) Edgar street, Harrison Avenue, and Macedoni Street. The first address is at an old house where a man that gets drunk every night comes home and beats his wife, leading to their daughter coming outside to cry. At the

The Messenger shows that by behaving in an altruistic way, our admiration towards a person grows. Throughout the novel many different altruistic acts have been achieved by the protagonist, Ed Kennedy. By the end of the book we have developed a level of respect and admiration for him as he managed to transform himself and others around him. Markus Zusak was sending Ed messages to get him to behave in that manner but he was also sending a message to the reader to also start behaving that way. All these can relate back to the altruistic tasks that have been achieved and how they influenced Ed's life and can easily influence ours.

Throughout the novel, Eddie also can be exemplified as a sympathetic character. sympathetic characters are when readers feel sympathy for throughout a story. The reader can feel empathy for Eddie, when the author describes the pain of Eddie’s gunshot wound. The pain was described to be unbearable and the description of the event of the gunshot pains a morbid picture in the reader’s mind. During Eddie’s time as a soldier in World War II, any reader can feel an astonishing amount of sympathy for Eddie. During, Eddie’s time as a soldier, he experienced, “A piercing pain ripped through Eddie's leg. He screamed a long, hard curse then crumbled to the ground. Blood was spewing below his knee. Plane engines roared. The skies lit in bluish flashes. He lay there, bleeding and burning, his eyes shut against the searing heat, and for the first time in his life, he felt ready to die,” (Albom 84). The reader can comprehend Eddies suffering and pain. Eddie was on the ground, in a war zone hurt and slowly dying. Readers can feel a lot of sympathy for when Eddie wanted to let go of the world and die. Before Eddie’s death, he ran under a falling amusement park ride to save a little girl, Eddie