Blog 1

I have to say that I agree with Alice. I really got caught up in the suspense of “A New Kind of Gravity.” I felt like the story had a hold of me. Not in the usual, I couldn’t put the book down kind of way but that the story wasn’t going to let me go. It wasn’t me holding on to the book, it was the book holding on to me. I didn’t actually care for most of the story. It is not something I would have chosen to read but once I started the story I felt compelled to finish it.

I wasn’t surprised at the way Charlie acted in the end. The author had foreshadowed Charlie’s want to hurt Camilla’s father with Charlie’s memories of his ex and his desire to hurt her ex. I actually spent the last couple of pages of the story anticipating his action. However, I was surprised that Charlie actually acted so violently with Camilla and her mother as the audience. Looking back on the ending, I’m not sure why this surprised me. His action would have had so much less meaning if he had not acted in front of Camilla and her mother.

I felt extremely disappointed with the end. By acting so violently against Camilla’s father it seemed that Charlie was, in the eyes of Camilla, no better than any of the other violent people in her life. In those last few moments that she saw Charlie, her whole opinion of him was forced to change. He was suddenly not her friend but someone who would hurt her happiness and to a child in Camilla’s situation all she could possibly want is for her family to be whole and happy. I felt something almost like heartbreak at the thought of what this poor fictional child must have suffered at that moment. In my mind it was awful.