Zebra Forests By: Stanley Suter

          Prompt-Who is your favorite character? Who is your least favorite character? Why?

           This week I have been reading "Zebra Forests" and so far I really like it. It is about a house outside of a town where two siblings live with their grandmother. They realize that they have been lied to since birth, thinking that their father was dead and their mother had run away. They find out, after "Andrew Snow," their father, excapes from a nearby prison and hides at their house, whether they like it or not. Oh yea, and their mother is dead.

          My favorite character so far is Ryan, the younger sibling. He loves the evil people in the stories, and he tries to fight his father when he barges into their lives. His creativity is the leading spark that allows them to escape from their now seemingly crazy grandmother, and their fugitive father. I disagree with how he feels towards his own family, but I give him credit for staying on his toes.

          My least favorite character is their grandmother. I hate her. She is a senile, uptight, lieing, rule making, son of a gun. Senile because she defends her criminal son from the cops and keeps the children inside the house. Uptight because she doesn't let them fight, or she freaks out and goes up to her room for days at a time. Lieing because she lied to her own grandchildren about their parents, and rule making because she won't let the children go out to the "Zebra Forest" while it is raining.