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Muchacho (2009)

by LouAnne Johnson(Favorite Author)

3.65 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Random House

review 1: LouAnne Johnson's Muchacho is inspiring and motivational with its special style and the authors personal style of writing. Eddie Corazon is the main character living in New Mexico, its a novel about a teenage boy who is angry at the way he is living his life and decides to change it when a special girl come along. This book was very touching to me and it made me open my eyes to several things. The author presents the theme of how love is powerful and change what other may think is impossible. No matter hoe screwed you may be there can always come an "angel" basically someone who you want to change for its not really for them but you decide to change because you want to make that person feel important.Johnson's style is quite unique, she uses Spanish in this book as well as... more poetry in her novel to incorporate how the character feels and to feel the audience more involved. The author does a great job making the reader feel like if he really is a person and you get attached to Eddie through the author voice and his POEMS which I really love. Such like the ending when Johnson ends it with a poem Eddie wrote (page 196) "If you don't like your life you can open a book and follow the word to a new place where you can forget you are your father heart attack and your mothers tears and you walk with your eyes looking in so you won't see yourself in the mirror because you're afraid to look out at el mundo...". This poem shows eddies life and how he got inspired by books to change. Which indeed is another theme the power of books. The setting is in New Mexico and its is credible and its a Mexican-American kind of story which is good because it will be more beneficial to this ethnicity because the backgrounds compare themselves more. If you close your eyes to imagine this its an urban place with many gang, houses where many people lived divided families and the struggle of school.Eddie is a troubled angry teenager who moves to an alternative high school so that he can have more flexibility. He try's to keep himself out of trouble from the law and wants to change his life after he meets a girl who seems to good to be true, as well as books that motivate him... even though he does it secretly behind his homies backs. Lupe his girlfriend sees many things in him which make him shine but he just doesn't realize it yet. Eddie is willing to fight his circumstances and change for the better. Muchacho relates to many Hispanic or Latin-American teens they have special tools that make them shine but sometimes there life problems are greater than them and don't let them come out. Until there is someone who comes along and helps them out in this case it was a book and the power of love.
review 2: Genre- Teen Real ProblemsEddie is incredibly smart, but at his school it is not cool to be the smart kid, so even though he loves to read he plays dumb. The book shows the reader the pressures of fitting in in an inner city school where real life stresses such as gangs, drugs, prison and death are part of every day life. Though the book is very adult in its explicit content, it is well written, infusing Spanish lingo and slang with English, reflecting an intelligent kid who knows how to be street smart. The text would be a great model for students to see the use of tone and mood to create tension. less

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