Post 5 Book 2

       I'm counting to read my book "If you're reading this." closer to the conclusion of the book it is about how he is once again starting to get the letters from when Michaels dad was writing him letters before he died telling him things before he died. That's why the book is called If you're reading this. One of the letters said, "Dear Michael, I'm not supposed to be writing this right now because i'm on guard duty, roasting in the blazing heat in a cement room at the top of a two-story tower. My job is to stare at the empty, dead desert to make sure that it stays empty and dead. To do that we have to keep our eyes open and staring out the window. S writing letters is against the rules." This means that while Michael's father was supposed to be on guard duty protecting the cement he was writing to his son that he truly missed because he was away for most of his life. But in order to keep in touch was to write letter every now and then but now that Michael's father has died he just started getting these letters. Maybe the truck that sends the mail to people got pushed back or something. I'm guessing that his father died from all the heat and accumulation. I'll have to keep reading to find out.

     The conflict of this story is that Before Michael's father even died he wouldn't have got the letters because he would still be writing them and trying to send them to Michael. In the book it stats that, "Reading books on guard duty is also against  the rules. We must be staring at nothing at all the time. It kind of drives me nuts. Anyways, that brings me to the first thing i guess i want to tell you. Always have a book going. Always take it with you." It clearly means that some good things can be bad in different situations. like if you're in the navy and you can't dress a certain way and you do behind the corperate's back. That's against the rules. So what Michael's dad is saying bad things aren't always good, and stay in school and read, and do what you have to do.