No Rules, No Regrets.

Since your reading this blog post, I think i should inform you that I just started reading this AWESOME book and I'm super excited to be writing a blog post about it ! ** possible spoilers **

So, I just started reading this perfect book called The Mission by Jason Myers yesterday and I love it. I know I say this about a lot of books, but from the first page I didn't want to stop reading in project real. So far what's going on is the main characters is talking about their past and his relations with his family. Ever since I read Romeo and Juliet I try to find a way every book I read relates to it. In The Mission they have the same relationship Issues with their parents, their completely distant. In the book, the main character Kaden says  "Much to the dismay of my dad. The only time I've ever met him was at a reading he did in Minneapolis for his second book. He nodded and said what's up to me, and then spent the next hour talking to my mom over a cup of coffee." In this book so far, it seems that the parents are basically just background characters. Somebody either talks about them for a short while, or they have a small conversation with some one.  I think its a symbol to show how distant kids put their parents from them.

I've saw movies about people going to war, heard family stories, and even read books about it. But in this book it goes so deep into detail about the extreme anguish and distress of a person in battle. the main characters brother, Kenny went to war and he wrote letters to Kaden and he wrote this one amazing letter to his brother about how its going where he is and he puts so much detail and emotion into his letter, not knowing it was his last.  Kaden keeps this letter with him and reads it whenever he wants to think about Kenny, and in the letter he told of so many sickening things that would deaden a persons soul.

In his letter he said "the only thing we know is thats its becoming increasingly more difficult to figure out who the enemy really is. A group of insurgents who arrives here to fight the Jihad from one of the neighborhood countries? Or members of a family who seek revenge on the soldiers who've turned their relatives into collateral damage, destroyed their neighborhoods, driven their people out of the area, and turned their country into a lawless melting pot of religious ideology and horrific street justice more brutal than you are ever shown on the screens of the televisions at home. I've seen decapitated bodies slung from buildings while entering certain neighborhoods. Children missing hands and eyes. Or a baby, man... I saw the body of this baby girl who couldn't have been more than three years old in a trash can in this house. Her throat had been slit and intestines pulled through her stomach. The rest of her family was found stacked together in a pile in the living room with all their throats cut too." Reading this perturbed me completely, I sat their reading this in disbelief that people can be so mindless and hateful to do things as gruesome as what he mentions in his letter. It seems to me that The people in war are basically being turned into zombies where they are, from seeing and experiencing all this violence. Like I had mentioned before this things blacken a persons soul , and prevent them from ever unseeing what hey had saw and staying with them forever.

It disturbs me to realize how mean and inhuman people can be to one another under the disguise of war. Also how governments and armies don't take into consideration the consequences of these wars and how they are affecting innocent people. I don't understand how we are helping out there when we were just as bad as any of those iraqis. They might be killing our soldiers but we are over there capturing families, shooting up neighborhoods, and attacking adults in front of their children. He spoke about soldiers hog tying people up in front of their children. What example are we showing these children other than violence is the only way to solve our problems? how are we helping in any way? Humans are supposed to be the smartest species on the planet, yet for as smart as we are we still cant come up with a way to resolve our differences without killing one another.

Final Youth In Revolt Blog Post !!

Yes, I know I've been reading Youth In Revolt for a while now, but everything got really busy so now I am basically 20 pages from the end of the book, and I have A LOT to say about this intoxicating book !

In Youth In Revolt it shows another side of parents and how bad they can really be. How mothers can act as if they had no children at all and were 17 again, And how step fathers can be so violent and hateful towards their step children. Not only is nick's family completely dysfunctional but you can also see the exact opposite which is how Nick's best friend Vijay's parents act, they are extremely strict and caring with their kids. Un this book I believe that the only reason their parents act the way they do is probably because of how their kids act. Have you ever went against what your parents want ? try breaking the law, stealing cars, catching houses on fire, being the reason for a persons death, sending an innocent kid to jail, breaking into your own house and destroying it.

I believe that somewhat Nick had a part in his family being torn apart completely. He disregarded almost everything his mother had told him and did everything he could have possibly done to make his mom miserable. Nicks mom isn't the best mom someone can have considering the fact she slept with a different man every night, and treated her son as if he was garbage, but there were some times when she actually tried to be a good parent to him and tried to be nice.

Another idea that I have when reading this book was that relationships have a huge impact on how peoples personalities are or how they change. In this beginning when I first started Youth In Revolt I thought how innocent and nice Nick was but then it seemed as if the second that Nick had met Sheeni his entire personality changed to what she wanted him to be and how she wanted him to act. In the book Sheeni was talking to Nick over the phone and told him that he needs to be more audacious and take more risks in his life, and he took this to an extreme. I don't think its even possible to keep track of how many laws that Nick has broken just to get the attention and to keep his girl friend. It's insane how he goes completely out of his way for her and she's just like all over everyone else, and I don't think that Nick and Sheeni should be together, Their bad for each other.

Another topic that came up in almost everything that happened in this amazing book was peer pressure. The mom after discovering she was pregnant with her dead ex boyfriends baby was pressured into marrying the jerk jerry the cop. Nick was pressured to go to the extremes for his snobby girlfriend Sheeni. What it most importantly showed in this book was that when you give into the peer pressure and the pressure people put on you to fill their needs the outcome of giving into that peer pressure is always bad. showing from everyone's lives in this book slowly falling apart.