Reading Journal Post

Blog #5

When one reads a book, they feel more than one emotion, during different parts of the book. One of the strongest emotions I felt, was worry. I was constantly on edge, waiting for a twist in the story. Waiting for Darrow’s down fall. Darrow may have looked like a Gold but, he was really a red. I felt worried for Darrow throughout out the story, but there were specific moments were I really felt like he was not going to make it out of this. One of those moments was when Cassius found out about Darrow killing Julian. I really liked Darrow and Cassius being friends, but I always knew that they could just as easily be enemies once the truth was out. “… He steps in and drives my ion blade through my armor into my belly.”(pg. 261) I knew Cassius would be mad but I didn’t anticipate that, he would want to kill the man he called his brother. It really made me worry about Darrow, and how he would survive this.  Another thing that I was worried about was what the proctors would do to Darrow. Fitchner did warn Darrow about them, this made me worried whether Darrow would be able to conquer this battle. “He shoves me off the branch, hard. I hit another on the way down… and then the beast roars.”(pg.315) proctor Apollo tried to kill Darrow, but Darrow made it. Third of all, there were many things hinting towards mustang betraying Darrow. Considering that Fitchner tried to warn Darrow about her many times, and Darrow ignored Fitchner every time. The biggest hint after Fitchner not trusting Mustang was mustang’s response to the Jackal. Even though cassius was enemies to Augustus, he had never seen the Jackal’s face, and the fact that mustang was able to recognize him, was that she was in the ArchGoverner’s zone of trust. This made me worry about what mustang is capable of and what she could do to Darrow’s trust. “Virginia au Augustus. Sister to the Jackal. twin. An heir of the great family, the gens Augusta.”(pg.368) I was surprised that Virginia didn’t betray Darrow. This book was full of many surprises and battles, but the reason I would worry was because I was looking at everything from Darrow’s perspective, as if I was him. This caused me to worry and grow an attachment towards the character.