Trouble as the Messenger

   Hello everyone! For my new book I Am The Messenger by Markus Zusak (the same author of The Book Thief), I wanted to talk about the conflicts contained in this book. If you don't know what I Am The Messenger is about, then let me give you a brief summary. The book is about a 19-year-old cabdriver named Ed Kennedy. He starts receiving orders contained in playing cards by an anonymous person after he is claimed a hero after a bank robbery that he was a victim of along with his friends Marvin and Audrey. These orders in the cards are some things that he needs to save or do in order to be a hero for someone. But nobody knows who is behind the cards.

  Anyways, I've noticed that the main character, Ed goes through a lot of situations in this book. On page 120, the author writes, "She soon says, " You're my best friend, Ed." "I know." You can kill a man with those words. No gun. No bullets. Just words and a girl." What this qoute is representing is the personal conflict of heartbreak that Ed had faced with his crush, Audrey. Ed has liked Audrey for a long time but Audrey is always seeing other people and that makes Ed more unconfident with himself having a better life or better things. 

   Also on page 88, the author writes, "I begin to shiver. I begin to shake. I begin to lurch and quake at the thought of killing another human. The aura that surrounded me earlier is gone. The air of invincibility  has deserted me, and I'm suddenly aware that I have to do this surrounded by nothing but my own human frailty. I breathe. I almost break." This quote shows the internal conflict that Ed has because of becoming the "messenger" and being forced to do dangerous things and in this moment he has to kill someone who was mistreating his wife every night when he returned from work.

  This all shows in general that Ed has to go through a lot of conflicts in I Am The Messenger and if you want to know more of what Ed goes through, then read the book.