Empathy – Development of the Character

I wish all characters would make a change. Here’s a list:

Martin – I wish he would be nicer to people (especially to his ex-wife and his ex-girlfriend) and would look after his kids better.

Jess – I wish she would think before talking and would be more patient with life.

Maureen – I wish she would do more with her time, going outside, follow some hobby or anything.

JJ – I wish he would just let his musical energy out. He should pick up that guitar and just play, get a band together and play some gigs.

And all of them should fall in love. A love which becomes a sincere relationship and a love which helps them with their problems.

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Analysis – Writing Style

The Author chose to tell the story with 1^st person narration not just with one main character, but with four main characters. Each character, Martin, Maureen, Jess and JJ, tell the story through their own perspective. Book got like different chapters and with every chapter the narrator changes. The narrators don’t repeat each other, the pick up where the story left off. First I found it confusing because I didn’t realize that the narrators always changed and that the names in front of the chapters were the narrators of the following text. But after reading o I realized and thought that it is a unique way to tell a story. I also liked how he changes the vocabulary of the different characters. The most extreme difference would be between Martin, who has a fairly sophisticated vocabulary and Jess, who talks slang and swears every second sentence.

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Recount – What happened in the Book


Four people have decided to end their life and by coincidence they meet each other. They end up meeting each other because their story gets into the paper because one of them used to be a famous TV presenter. Through this newspaper story and through the craziness of Jess, a teenager who’s father happens to be a junior education minister, and they meet again. They start talking about their problems and they more or less try to sort them out a bit. The book ends with that they figured out that they’re not going to kill themselves and they’ll meet each other from time to time.

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Empathy – Diary Entry of JJ

Man, that was just crazy you should have seen that! I mean like I was on my way delivering pizzas to some guys who lived in that Toppers’ House, the building where people go to jump off if they're fed up with life. So by coincidence I got there and I was thinking “why not now?”. So I went up on the roof and guess what I saw? There was this TV-guy and an old lady sitting on the head of teenager. So it turns out that all these guys wanted to jump too. So they ended up eating my pizza and the teenager, Jess, proposed to search for her boyfriend or whatever so we went there and looked for him at some New Year's Eve party. Eventually we all went home alive.

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Characterization – Description of a Character

JJ is a guy from America who ended up in London because of his girlfriend, which now is his ex-girlfriend. He used to play in a band, but the band broke up and now he’s delivering pizzas. He was thinking of killing himself because he felt hollow inside without the music. He is a guy who doesn’t talk much and when he talks he isn’t talking useless stuff. I like his character, besides of that he wanted to kill himself, because he is calm and has a kind of cool aura. But I don’t like that he has just given up on music when the band had split, he could have just kept playing on music and look for a new band or something like that. Just crying over how great it was with the band just doesn’t help.

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Reflection - Feelings while reading Parts of the Book

When reading the parts where Jess always comes up with some new ideas, always some new stuff that gets you in trouble, it really got me annoyed. For example where the press found out that Martin Sharp and she, a daughter of a junior education minister, and some other two people had the intention to suicide themselves, she no better idea than telling her father that she had sex with Martin. Or in numberous other incidents she was just running her mouth when she shouldn’t have. So in these parts of the book she really made want to scream “Shut up! Stop running your mouth! Don’t you think before you talk!” But then again I’m just a reader so I didn’t yell out loud, but I certainly would have if I had been in that book.

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