Dear Kay Lynn Magnum,
I just finished your book "The Secret Journal of Brett Colton" When I first started reading it, I didn't know what would happen in the story. I had heard about the rage of the book, and decide it was the right book for me to read.
In reading the book, I put the characters into my life. Me. I was Kitty. A high school girl, in my own little bubble. Worrying how to get through high school. My sister turned into Sam. Though my sister and her don't really have the same personality. Your brother as my brother, and Jason. The hot shot of the school. The one all of the girls squealed over, the one that gets your heart racing when you talk to him. He was the one you wanted to been seen with walking down the halls.
I had feeling for this book. I felt that I connected to the life of Kitty. My sister battled the same disease as Brett had. She is a survivor. As I read journal entry after journal entry of Brett’s, I wondered how an 18 month old girl could handle this disease. I wasn't when my sister and parents struggled through this trail, but journal after journal that I read, I wondered how they could have possibly survived the pain, and the sorrow. How could such a young girl handle something like this? She couldn't expression how she was feeling. She couldn't express the pain. My parents say the doctors couldn't ever believe that such a little girl could go shot after shot and treatment after treatment without ever crying.
One thing that I thought of a lot in this book was religion. Kitty didn’t have a religion. Where living in Utah, that could be hard. Everyone here mostly believes the same thing. The kids you are surrounded by at school all go to the same church, and same activities. Kitty became interested in the LDS church. Her parents though didn’t want anything to do with it. I thought of how hard that would have been. To do something different, to not follow the crowd. Lots of people have a hard time doing what they really think is right. They do what would make them “cool” or “popular.” This book really made me realize how much faith Kitty had in herself. She kept trying. She didn’t give up.
I think one of the highlights of the book is little Emily. Emily brought happiness into Kitty's life. Even when Kathy was sad or angry it seemed to be Emily that brought happiness into Kitty's life. I thought of such a little girl. She had such a positive attitude all of the time. In each of the trails she faced, I just imagined a little girl with a big bright smile. It made me think of how many people in this world are as positive as Emily? How many kids do you hear with happiness like hers?
This book made me think. The experiences that Kitty had, the people she meet, and the hardships she went through. But yet, everything seemed to be okay in the end. She helps everyone learn something new in the book. How to appreciate everyone and everything. Everything in Kitty’s life fell almost perfectly into place in my life, and the others surrounding it. Thank you for the amazing life story you shared with me.
Sincerely,
Ashley Taylor
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