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.