Shooter- Walter Dean Myers cycle 3 pages 16-31

The next section of the book that I have read got more into my main characters personal life and school life. Through the interrogations the author begins to reveal what happens to Cameron during his normal day at school and how his personal family life goes about. During the interrogations that interrogator brings up that Cameron has a criminal record from graffiti he did on walls of a church with his friend Len. The only reason Cameron did it though was because he was following his friend Len, which leads me to think that Cameron is not able to think on his own because he always has to follow people. By revealing more of Cameron's personal life the author begins to give small hints that may have lead to motive of the shooting. Cameron also has a few problems at home because his dad puts a lot of pressure on him. The basketball team is a good example because when Cameron got cut, the dad told him that he played like a girl and needed to man up.
When the interrogator speaks the author's word choice is used to make subtle hints towards what he is trying to imply. In the book the author chooses to go around things instead of directly going to the point. You have to make inferences and sometimes I even have to read the lines twice just so that I am clear on what each character is saying. This makes the book sometimes challenging because if I do not read thoroughly through it I don’t understand how the conversation is going about which makes have to go back and read the lines over again.
My second section of the reading really got me into the book this time leaving me with a lot of cliffhangers. The book is sucking me practically into the story because every page there's a twist and turn which leaves me in suspense. "Did you think you were depressed before you started taking the pills?" This quote was very interesting to me because this lead me to think that the reason why he did the shooting is because he was depressed. This left me with a cliff hanger ending. Was the motive because he was depressed? What caused him to be depressed? Hopefully I will be able to find more as I continue with the story.

Shooter- Walter Dean Myers, Cycle 2 1-15

The book shooter is a compelling book about a shooting of a White Male at Madison High school. The first fifteen pages of the book is written in the form of an interview in which an interrogator is interviewing the suspect about the incident. Though only through the first fifteen pages through the form of an interview the book reveals a lot of key components to the main character. For example, when the interviewer asked "Your father was upset that you didn’t make the team?" The suspect Cameron talked about how his father will always put him down and how he played like a girl. The rest of the pages I read was background information about the character. The character revealed that he didn’t have many friends I didn’t get out of the house much.

The pages I have read are written in an interview form which reveals how each character acts in particular by their choice in words. Most of the reading I did is straight forward but in some lines I have to draw an inference from what I have read. For example, the main character Cameron says, "You're trying to fit me in right? I have to be either a ballplayer or a loner, or what? You need to fit me in someplace right?" This quote required me to do some critical thinking. Since most of it has been background information I inferred that Cameron was one of the outcast at his school and how no real identity to him. The references to if he had any friends occurred multiple times perhaps showing that Cameron wasn’t much of the friendly type or wasn’t liked by others. This could be key to the rest of the story by hinting the motive or why he decided to shoot.

The first fifteen pages really drew me in to the book and I am eager to read on. The way the book is written is unique since it is mostly written in the form of dialogue and interviews. Since the book is formatted in this particular way I have to draw inferences about each of the character since there is no specific background information. I have to read in between the lines like I did in the quote I mentioned earlier. That particular quote required me to draw conclusions that may or may not be correct. The book has left me with some unanswered questions. Why is he being interviewed 6 months after the shooting? What was the motive? These unanswered questions make me want to keep continuing on with the book as it makes me think about what the next possible move can be.