Book report - "I am Number 4" by James Frey and Jobie Hughes under the pen name of Pittacus Lore.

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Monday November 13 2011

                The book, “I Am Number Four”, is a science fiction novel written James Frey and Jobie Hughes under the pen name of Pittacus Lore. This story is about a fifteen-year-old alien boy named John Smith who travels to Earth from a distant planet named Lorien. When he came to earth he was very young and fit in perfectly with the rest of the humans because the Loric look exactly like humans and have similar habitudes. He moves to Ohio after he is discovered by an alien race bent on killing all of his kind. John makes friends and a girlfriend for the first time in his life. Sara Hart is John’s girlfriend and the daughter of Mrs. Hart, the real estate agent that sells john and his Cêpan Henri, his guardian, their house.

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         In this book, the message most conveyed by the author is that it is easier to be a lone wolf than to be a sheep in a herd. As John and Henri fear for their lives, they keep on moving place to place. They avoid making friends to not cause suspicious in people’s mind because of their sudden disappearances when they move out. He repeatedly implies how if the protagonist makes good friends and has someone that cares about him, his friends will suspect something when they have to move away. Author also says that without baggage John won’t be ...

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