Another Letter from Churchill High

Dear Chris,

     I've generally hated all the other books my English teacher has made me read, and I came into this assignment thinking WHALE TALK would be the same.  I was wrong.

     I write a little bit myself, and kind of wish I'd thought of it, especially the title metaphor.  The whole thing is kind of FIGHT CLUB meets modern day COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO.

     Anyway, aside from writing technique, what I really got from it was a better understanding of why people do the things they do, specifically the two extremes; right and wrong.

     Before I go on, I want you to have a better understanding of my version of justice.  If the subject somehow comes up, like in class or something, I find most people I meet to be pro death penalty.  That's very interesting to me that people would rather give a child rapist/murder the easy way out than have him be punished.  Death is never justice.  If there a serial killer running loose on the streets he should go to jail for the rest of his life and make special friends with his cellmates named Bubba.

     Now that that's out of the way, the point I'm trying to make is that the right and wrong theme I got from the book hit me in a strange way.  It made me question the whole idea of revenge.  Is an eye for an eye justice, or does it bring you down to the level of a monster as well?  The overall message I got from it was: Right the wrongs when they're presented to you, but don't go looking for trouble.  Because when you go looking for trouble, it's very likely to find you first, and then some.

Garrett A.