In a Heartbeat
Author: Rita Herron
Total pages read: 378
7. A Sometimes when we read certain word or phrases or images stand out. Maybe they are words or phrases that make an impression because of their sound, or maybe the meaning or image them make strike us?
In this book there are two phrases that stand out for the whole book. The first one is “You’ve stolen my heart. I’m coming back for it.” When I first read this sentence I though the book will be about a romantic story, and some kind of revenge for something did it in the past. However, this sentence applied for many situations in the whole story. For example, this is the sentence that Vernon Hanks, an obsessed man, used to declare his love to Lisa Langley the main character in the story. She had stolen his heart four years ago, when she was dating with his best friend William White, a serial criminal called Grave Digger, the one who kidnapped Lisa four years ago. Also, this sentence stands for a real love between Lisa Langley and Brad Booker, an FBI agent, who rescue Lisa four years ago when kidnapped and buried alive by the Grave Digger. Four years ago when this tragedy happened to Lisa both of them fall in love to each other. Since then, both of them have think about each other and captured their hearts but they were not able to accept. Four years ago the heart of the agent Booker and Lisa belonged to each other and now they met again and try to rescue it but their love and attraction just increase. And secondly, the title of the book gives a good main idea about the story. “In a Heartbeat.” In a last heartbeat Lisa Langley was rescue from the death when she was burial alive in a grave. In a last heartbeat of hope many women lost their life waiting for being rescue. In a heartbeat Lisa and Brad join their life forever.
14. C What message do you think that the author is trying to share?
I think the author main purpose to write this story was let the readers judge a part of their life. For example, the agent Brad Booker was a rigid man, with no feelings, stronger and weak at the same time with his heart. His work consumed his time and life and he did not get him the opportunity to fall in love or have a nice family because he grew up with foster families that make him an insensible man. His life changed completely when he knew Lisa the love of his life, and he decides to chance his life for her. Another example is Lisa Langley who since she was kidnapped and rescue, she hid herself in the mountains where nobody knows about her. She used to live afraid about everything and everyone around her until life gives her the opportunity to share her life with her hero the agent Brad Booker. Both of them share their life and forgot their past. I think the message is to enjoy life with no limitations because might be tomorrow when we have to face death or critical moments in our life, would not be sorry for the things we had not the courage to did it before, when have the opportunity.