19 MINUTES POST #5

By now I think I'm quite old enough to understand the usefulness of a book mark but apparently not. Well of course when it came time to reading 19 Minutes... I couldn't remember what page I had left off at, which is extremely annoying. So I spent a good amount of time just trying to find the exact spot to start up my reading up again. While I was rereading I started to catch small details I had missed the first time. I have a tendency to read really fast because of the urge to get to the ending and find out what happens but I usually end up missing important details along the way. One very important detail that I missed reading the first time was that Peter's mother and father have a really tough relationship. It is now clear that the death of their first son, Joey, who was the golden boy and the all-american perfect son, greatly affected their relationship with Peter. At one point during the book Peter's father even makes a comment about how he wished that it had been Peter who had died not Joey. AH HA! And looks like this is where I left off before. From my new reading I learn that Peter's father hasn't been going to visit Peter in the prison like he's been telling Peter's mother. Peter's mother finds this out one day while she is visiting Peter at the prison and he makes a comment about how his father never comes. This surprises Peter's mom so the next time the dad leaves to "go see Peter" she follows him. She then discovers that the dad has been going to Joey's grave site the inter time!! I was shocked at this and almost mad at the father because I thought that it was selfish to go visit the dead son while he should be visiting the still living one. That's about all the new information that I learned so far.