write a letter to one of the chareters in the book

Dear Micah,

          I have read your book and I have a few questions for you.  At what age did you start lying?  Do you remember your first lie?  In your book you keep saying that you aren’t going to lie anymore but then as I read further into the book you say “ok that was a lie”.  I wonder if you can even tell the difference between the truth and a lie.  You mention a brother Jordan and how much you dislike him.  Even as a baby you hated him and wished he wasn’t born.  Then later in the book you say it was a lie.  Shortly after that you say that telling us that you lied about telling that Jordan was a lie.  I don’t recall in the book you saying what happen to Jordan.  Just that it was an accident and it wasn’t your fault.  I can’t help but wonder if that too was a lie and if whatever happened to your brother was your fault? 

     I also wonder how you can keep all your lies straight.  It seems to me that it would just be easier to tell the truth rather than try to keep up with which lie you told to who.  I enjoyed the book but was confused at times.  I wonder how truthful you really are about not lying and if you have even lost yourself in all the lying.  What is the point?  And out of all the lie you could tell the one that really gets me is when you tell people that you are half girl and half boy.  Why?  It seems to me that being a liar like you would be totally exhausting.

Sincerely,

June

week 5 blog. Free choice

The strangest part of the text in the book Liar by Justine Larbalestier is how she keeps jumping from different times in the story.  She goes from before to after to family history.  At first it was kind of confusing for me to read.  But after about the first four or five pages I was able to keep up a bit more.  I have never read a book that jumps around so much before.  I found myself wanting to hurry and read the before so I could get to the next after part or reading the family history part quickly so I could get to the before again.  The writing style is much different than I am used to but by the end of the book I found myself enjoying the different kind of writing she used.  I think it made me finish the book quicker than I would have if it was all in a nice and neat order.  The writer gives you bits and pieces at a time making you want to know more.  It was also different how the writer didn’t use chapters like other books I have read.  She wrote in three sections.  I think that was easier since she went from after to before then to family history ect.  She was able to tell the story bit by bit rather than from beginning to end.  I enjoyed reading what I call mini chapters.  It kept me from getting bored with reading about the same instance for a long period of time.  I will definitely be looking for other books that are written this way.

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·             Micah is the main character in the book Liar.  She is a liar.  I think that she is worthy of praise.  In the book she has taken a lot of verbal abuse from her peers and ignores it.  I am not sure I could be that strong.  I think by keeping her friendship with Zach a secret tells a lot about her character.  She seems to be a person that can keep things to herself.  I know she is a liar but I feel that is just her way of dealing with the life she has.  She comes from a loving family that don’t have much and I think that is part of the reason she lies.   Since one of her teacher assumed she was a boy she chose to be one.  I don’t really think that was a lie.  She just let people assume that she was.  No one even asked her if she was male or female nor did they seem to want to know her well enough to know.  She mentions in the book that she wishes she was invisible.  To me that tells me that she is trying to hide form something.  Rather it be illness, her family heritage or the fact that her friend Zach is dead something about her is different.  She seems to be a smart girl.  I am not sure why she lies or maybe saying she is a liar is a lie as well.