The end of my Weblog ;)

so...here I'm now finished my personal first Weblog, sorry for mistakes but I'm not good in english :D
I hoped, you have enjoyed it and maybe you would by this novel of Tim Bowler, if yes ( http://www.amazon.de/Shadows-Textheft-Lernmaterialien-Tim-Bowler/dp/346437159X/ref=sr_1_2/028-0226464-0246150?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1175185526&sr=8-2 )
klick there ;)
I'm now finish see you maybe in few months again with a new weblog ;)

Yours
Marcel

Own Impression

After finishing the first chapter of the novel I felt very shocked because of the brutality Jamie‘s father shows.
The following parts confirmed our impression.
It was very interesting for us to see what happened.
It‘s because I can‘t retrace such behaviour of Jamie‘s father and so I searched out the reasons for that.
From time to time we sympathise with the main characters Abby and Jamie.
In the end I admired their attitude. There can be no doubt that both do their escape with any effort they have.
It shows that Jamie can reach a lot if he wants to.
More and more I recognized compassion for the teenagers during I read the book.

All in all, I liked this novel, because it was interesting to read and the story is very realistic. I liked the ending, because you get the impression that all persons live in the real world.

Characterisation of Jamie

Jamie Williams is a 16-years old boy who lives in Ashingford, a small town in England. He lives or playing squash, but he is more and more pressured by his father, because he was a big squash champion and he wants his son become a champion, too. Jamie has bold hair, blue eyes is not tall, but has a strange body. He isn’t good at school and hasn’t got many friends. His neighbour Spider is his only and best friend. Jamie says that he is the best friend he ever could have. They’re often play basketball together.

Danny, a great squash player, is his biggest adversary and in the beginning, Danny wins against Jamie, because of the better conditions. But in the end Jamie wins against Danny by the regional championships. Jamie isn’t a very self confident pupil and wants to be another person, who has a better relationship to his dad. He is a very helpful person who always cares about the people he likes and he does everything for the girl he loves, Abby. He helped her in every situation and goes with her long ways, but they had to disconnect in the ending, because both realize that they are two different characters in two different live-positions. Also he is a very organized person who always thinks about the things he will do.

The 27th and last chapter

The last chapter of the novel deals with a last dialogue between Jamie and his desperate father. Jamie tells him his story and his father tells Jamie that he read his secret book and afterwards he realizes what he has done. He realizes all his mistakes and thought about it a long time, so he decided to change his live and behaviour against Jamie. Jamie feels happy about this and his father also says that he will give him the money, Spider borrows him.
In the night he thinks about his life, about his mother and about Abby. Then he goes quietly as he can to his shed, turns on the lamp and sees his shadow and Abby’s words comes back to him: “Whenever you see your shadow, Jamie, just remember you’re looking at me.”
In my opinion, it's a good ending of the novel, because all the people are content, Jamie can live well and without beats with his father...and he will always think at Abby...

After reading, I ask me some questions:

• Does Jamie and Abby meet again?



• Does Jamie play squash again?



• Are Jamie and his father able to start a new life without the help of the mother?



• What happened to Abby and her son?



• Are they able to start a new and also happy life?



• Is Jamie beaten by his father again?

Chapter 26

In the beginning of chapter 26, Jamie finds out how his mother dies. His father tells him that she read before his secret book in his bed and she thought that she’ll never see him again and was very sad, so she takes an overdose of pills and dies. Jamie thinks that he has the obligation for this.
Afterwards he talks with Spider, but he had already decided that he would never tell anyone about Abby, not even Spider. Jamie finds out that Angelo died and Vittorio takes all the money for himself. Spider nobody tells that he knew where Jamie is and he is very happy about it and tells Spider that he is the best friend he could ever has.
I think, this chapter show us one more time the very good relation between Spider and Jamie. He tells nobody one thing about Jamie and I think, this is a really friend and Jamie can be happy that he know somebody like Spider.

The 25th Chapter

After few days, Jamie is back at home, but he can’t find his mother or his father. His home looks like every time, but it’s curious that all foot and drinks are full of a sort and everything is clear in his house. But he found no one. Before he goes to the squash hall he eats something and makes his way to Ashingford.
He goes into the changing room, thinks a while about Abby and then he goes to the Tournament organisation committee, because today are the regional Championships. All people are wondered about Jamie, because he missed a long time. But he don't noticed long the reations, because he only wants to play squash.
His adversary is Danny and Jamie plays only for Abby, so he wins the match with ‘nine-love, nine-love and nine-love’. Then he goes upstairs to Bob Powell and hits him very brutal without saying anything. His dad goes with him into the changing room and Jamie represents him that he’ll go away again, when his father beats him again, but his father doesn’t want to hit him, he has a very hard message for him: Jamie's mother is dead.

That is a really hard shock, for all people when they heard, that their mother die. I think, Jamie need some time to get over this events, first his bad life at home, then the escape with Abby, the win against Danny, the fight against Bob and now the message that his mother is die...Jamie is a very poor boy. He has only bad luck. But i can follow the reation of the fight against Bob Powell, because he only ignored Abby and love Danny.

Chapter 24

The next few days it was hard for Jamie to accept the answer and he decides to go back home and Abby relates his decision, because she also thinks, that they are two different characters in two different parts of live and Jamie has to go home. Abby doesn’t will never go home.
When they lied in the bed together so close, Abby says that she can’t make love with him and Jamie agrees that and has the same position. He encourages her and suddenly she gives him a kiss. Abby says that Jamie has to go the next morning without saying goodbye, because it’s better for both and she says: "Whenever you see your shadow, Jamie, remember you’re looking at me."
I think, this is the most important sentence, because the relation between Abby and Jamie is very good and Jamie will never forget this sentence and Abby.