Jonathan A. Rapo
Deadline
Chris Crutcher
Realistic Fiction
Holiday
P. 51

1. Although I only have started this book fairly recently, it is already great but also saddening. Deadline is a story of a senior in high school who has been diagnosed with a terminal illness. He has taken it fairly easily and made the doctor promise not to tell his parents. The doctor has given him a year to live. However, he has decided to go out in a blaze of glory and really try everything and make his mark on the world. He is a pint-sized eighteen-year-old who is going to tryout for football, give his close minded civics teacher a daily migraine, and go for the amazingly perfect, facinating Dallas Suzuki.

2. The book in total is so far a grand masterpiece. It has all aspects of a growing teenage lie and the change from childhood to adulthood. It is a perfect book for guys because it includes everything that pretty much everyguy s currently going through (except the whole terminal illness aspect.).

3. Optimism is a theme I have acknowledged in this book. Ben, the protaganist in this novel, is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Instead of moping around and itying himself, Ben is trying to get as much possible done in the last year he has left.

4. My favorite character is Coach Banks. He is a very funny man but requires only your respect. He believes that a community is what causes people to strive and thus, wants everyone working together. He is also very kind but states his mind and is mostly serious. People know not to mess with him because disrepectfulness is not accepted.

5. I am too early in the book to choose a least favorite character. So far every character seems pretty nice.

6. I believe Ben is going to make the tryouts for the team and will muster enough courage to talk to Dallas Suzuki.