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Text Box: June 13, 2003   Dear Blizzard students, (You would write “Dear Mrs. Bettez”)   I have just finished reading, Wish You Well, by David Baldacci.  The story takes place in the Appalachian Mountains during the 1940’s.  The two main characters, Lou and Oz, move to the mountains with their catatonic mother after their father is killed in a car accident.  They move there to live with their great grandmother Louisa Mae.  There they develop loving relationships with other characters in the novel, face the adversity and joy of living on a farm. Lou, the character that changes most, learns that faith and love are what truly defines a person and makes a person strong.    As I read this story, I made many connections to it.  I recalled the excitement of traveling by train from RI to Oregon to visit my grandmother as a young child. I felt as if I was Lou as she looked at the beauty of the countryside as she traveled to Louisa Mae’s. I also remember having the childhood innocence of faith like Oz, and the loss of that “magic” as I grew older, as was occurring with Lou.    About midpoint of the book, I wondered why Cotton had come to “like” Amanda so much.  I realized that the author was setting up some romance, but could never quite figure out “how it was that he was falling in love with her.  As I read on I realized that Louisa Mae must have read Amanda’s letters to him.  It was through those letters that he came to know her.  I predicted that they would fall in love.  I was surprised though that this did not play a larger role in the story.   Sincerely, Mrs. Bettez (Your name)

 

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