Casey Blog 4

I think that the book is kind of slow up to this point. So far there has been a lot of events but none have been overly exciting. The most action that has happened is the part where El Patron gets sick and Matt has to be hidden by Maria in chapter 22 and then into chapter 24 where Matt has to leave so that he isn't killed. The first few chapters where Matt is in, "The little red house in the poppy fields," (Farmer 5) is the most boring part of the book as Matt is alone and nothing good happens whatsoever. It's a horrible way to start a book because there is nothing intriguing to hold your interest, quite honesty if I were not forced to continue reading I would have stopped because of how boring it was. The book did get gradually more exciting as I have previously stated, although it has never really taken off. I'm still hoping for some exciting events to happen in, "The New Life."(Farmer Table of Contents) Hopefully the new life means a new life for the story or any life really. Now that Matt is under the fake identity of, "Matt Ortega," (farmer 260) and a fake identity, things might be able to get interesting if people find out who he really is. With a new setting, name, identity and goal, I am hoping that one of those things will spark excitement in the pages of the novel to come.