Sponge in Inda

     In the book I'm reading, Inda, one of the main characters friends, called Sponge, is the sun of a king. But he hides this fact for as long as he can so as not to alienate himself from his friends. then later we find out he's gay, which he hides too, also to avoid alienating himself.
     I don't think this is a very good thing to do. I don't believe that this is the way you should pick friends. If you don't think you can tell your friends that, why are they your friends? And it's kind of disrespectful to your friends, thinking they won't be able to deal with whatever it is.
    On the other hand, some things are your own personal business. In the book Sponge doesn't want to give up the "easy friendship". Some things aren't really worth it to alienate others. I don't tell everything I do to anyone. But, if it gets to the point when you don't tell your friends anything, then you need to rethink the way you do things.

Escapism in Motherless Brooklyn

     I'm reading the book Motherless Brooklyn in which Lionel Essrog is trying to solve who killed his boss, Frank Minna. While reading this book I got to thinking about things people do to avoid how they really feel and who they really are.
     For instance one character, Danny, is an orphan who dropped out of high school. Yet he is always calm, and always cool. Even when Minna dies he keeps his cool. He hides behind a lack of emotions and avoids how he really feels.
     Lionel has tourette's. He and his friends get along by ignoring it They for the most part try and forget it exists. His whole life he sort of keeps himself hidden, with the tourrette's.. But as the book progresses Lionel meets other people, people who ask him about it, and how it is to be the way he is. And he slowly stops ignoring it, and accepting it. And he becomes a stronger, more complete person because of it.
     The overall message here is that you can't hide behind your problems and avoid emotion to make life better.. Hiding won't lead you anywhere except an endless loop of avoidance. to solve anything in life it must be met head on, and until you meet your issues and emotions you are not an incomplete person.

Hard things in Inda

     In this book I'm reading, Inda, the main character, Inda, the son of a noble, is in a military academy. He and his friends are in a intrigue filled feud with another group of boys. I find the way some of the boys act and think kind of hard to read, because I feel like that often. The things i find hard are hard for me because these are feelings I have about my own family, resentments I have of peers, and many things that are reflections of parts I don't like as much about myself.
     I believe the author of the book is saying something about the nature of children, and the hard things say that kids aren't always nice. In the book, the story is  sort of mirrored up to the adult world, and its own politics and intrigue. i think the author is saying how deep down everyone is essentially a kid, and a blood feud between two families is the same thing in its essence as a schoolyard squabble.
     Another effect of the similiarity of the characters to me and people I know is that it makes the book better, and makes me want to read it more. It's like you are doing these things, and you want to find out what happens to yourself.