favorite book: when & why

     When first thinking about this blog, I drew a blank. I haven't read a book that stuck with me for quite a while. I thought all the way back to middle school when I read the book The Land. In The Land, the main character, who also narrates the story, is Paul-Edward Logan. Taking place during the period of slavery, Paul-Edward is the son of a rich white man who had sex with one of his slaves. The story talks about diversity and not fitting in. It reinforces the importance of family, faith, and friendship. I liked this book so much and it stuck with me because it reinforced the fact that you're not always going to get along with everyone and things aren't always going to be easy, but you need to keep going towards your final goal. Paul-Edward's goal was to own his own land and not have any slaves, which would have been quite a feat for a black person in his time. He encounters many hardships through his journey and has to come up with solutions to get through them. When I look back, I see more clearly how the adversity applies in real life now more than when I was in middle school when everything was so easy. I've had to overcome quite a few things in the past few years to get to my final goal of graduating and finding a good job. Obstacles ranged from determining what I wanted to be to dealing with the recent death of my grandfather. I'm sure there a lot of books out there that have the same message as The Land, but this one seemed to stick with me. I actually might re-read it now just because I haven't in a few years.