Kenneth Cabrera                                        808.                                                                         3-26-16

           The living was a book that I thought was going to be horrible but after reading a couple of pages I found it totally interesting. The main character of the book Shy is a character that can know when something is wrong but when something else happens he gets confused. Shy has suffered a lot and he is still stuffing because of his family. His family isn't in good shape because he only has a mother and a nephew. He lost his grandma to a disease called Romero,and his dad left him before he was born.

           Shy goes through a lot in this book and surprisingly he has survived the impossible. He losses friends and makes new ones along the way of survival. While shy is on the cruise he is told that someone on the ship is looking for him and looks like he works for the CIA. A few months ago Shy saw a guy trying to commit suicide. So he coughs the guy in mid air and tried to pull him up, but the guy was to heavy and he fell to his death.

            The theme of this book is saying never give up when hope seems lost. This message can be put in many ways. In life matters, sports matters, and even job matters. In the book there were so many opportunities for Shy to give up but he didn't,