The book that I chose to read is “The Antagonist” by Lynn Coady. The reason why I chose this book was because the text sort of relates to me. The main character is portrayed as a person who does bad things and acts like a thug. He has other people’s standards to decide who he is. Just like how he is seen as a thug-like character, I am seen as a scary person as well. That is before people get to know that I’m kind and I don’t beat people up for any reason, or at all. He and I seem to have an easily misjudged appearance, one that brings people to believe that we are scary and dangerous. From what I have read from the text, the character seems to have gotten into some fights, or is someone who is called over for a good brawl. The idea of violence caught my attention, because I love to see or read about a good fight. So I hope to read about some fights that occurred in Rank’s (main character) life. What interested me about the author was that she had been nominated for the Governor General’s Award in the past, and the novel “The Antagonist” was a finalist in the Scotiabank Giller Prize competition. Also, in the review of Lynn Coady’s “The Antagonist”, they state that she is the most dynamic prose stylists in Canadian letters. She shifts from various characters, and in the description of “The Antagonist”, it is as if she was the main character describing it so that I can visualize the “manliness” emitted from the stated setting.
From what I have read from the text, the character seems to have gotten into some fights, or is someone who is called over for a good brawl. The idea of violence caught my attention, because I love to see or read about a good fight. So I hope to read about some fights that occurred in Rank’s (main character) life.
What interested me about the author was that she had been nominated for the Governor General’s Award in the past, and the novel “The Antagonist” was a finalist in the Scotiabank Giller Prize competition. Also, in the review of Lynn Coady’s “The Antagonist”, they state that she is the most dynamic prose stylists in Canadian letters. She shifts from various characters, and in the description of “The Antagonist”, it is as if she was the main character describing it so that I can visualize the “manliness” emitted from the stated setting.