The sculpture of memory

This book is disturbing in many ways. Remember at the beginning of the year when we talked about how authors sometimes want to make you feel uncomfortable, well this author is deffinetly doing that. The book that i am reading is called The Sculpture of Memory By: John Elder Lloyd (i know the author!!) In the book the boy watched his parents get robbed and then murdered, all through a little key hole in a closet.

Later he discovers that he can control peoples memories with his mind. If he concentrates on them really hard and thinks about a certain thing they will remember it. For example, if he looked at me really hard and thought i had a sandwich for lunch. No matter the time of day or what i really had for lunch i would truly believe that that is what i ate. BUT if i tried to remember the real memory like what i really had for lunch then my head would hurt and it would not be fun. Of course he uses his powers much stronger then just what people ate for lunch.

OH! i forgot to mention, because both of his parents got murdered he now lives in an orphanage where he meets his two partners in crime, Cove and Mary. Clove has been in and out of the orphanage since he was a baby. May on the other hand is new to Avondale as well and is very sensitive when it comes to the topic of her parents. Later in the book they sneak out to an apartment to live. As hard as that sounds it is really quite simple, all you must do is make the people in charge of the orphanage THINK that a foster family has taken all three friends and you make the people who own the house think that you already gave them a check for rent every month. They are doing this to try to track down the killer (the one who murdered Angus' parents)

This book is very elaborate and Angus uses his powers in the typical way you would assume a boy would: free arcade tickets, prevent him from getting in trouble, free food, and more. But if i had these powers I think i would use them mostly for the same reasons BUT i would be very careful. They ended up on the wanted list at the police station because according to security cameras they did not pay the people at any store they went to. If i were Angus i would not use it for silly stuff like free food. You have to know who is watching because you can only change one persons memory at a time.

I think this book is a loss of innocents story. The character goes from living in a happy family, to trying to live on his own (with two friends but still hard work) and he is trying to find the murderer. This book is very suspenseful and it always has me on the edge of my seat. I can not wait to read more and see if i agree with what Angus, Mary and Clove end up doing.