Book Club Discussion #4

Today we wrapped up our book discussion of "Handbook for Boys" by Walter Dean Myers. We basically just discussed how this novel truly was full of some great life lessons. We focused on the idea that "your life is your life, no matter what people do". Things are thrown at you and you have to deal with it and thats just the way that it goes. Throughout this book the life lessons that Jimmy learned are things that every child, not just boys, should learn. Talk is easy and doing is hard but you have to just try and make the right decisions even when they may seem tough. For example, Kevin is a character that showed us that even when you do know whats right and wrong sometimes that's just not enough. Kevin knew right or wrong and learned that along with Jimmy but he made the wrong choices which eventually left him in jail. I also loved that at the end of the novel it basically started all over again with Ernesto walking in the shop. It's almost representative of life and how everyone goes through the same lessons in life and its how we choose to handle them and the decisions that we make the change the outcome.