Reading Response 1:Everyday

Every Day is a book about a teenage boy named "A" who is a different person everyday. He has no problems until the boy he was for a day, Nathan, realizes he wasn't himself. Nathan begin telling everyone he was possessed by the devil. A knows for a fact he wasn't possessed but he struggles with the guilt he feels to make someone believe such a thing.

As A struggles he realizes that people blame the devil for things that he believes the devil does not control. "I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and effect is backward. The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after"

I connect to the character through this quote because i believe he is right and it makes a lot of sense. People who choose to do bad things often blame the devil when those bad things cause trouble in their life. IN some peoples minds blaming the devil is easier than blaming themselves. A knows this first hand because he lives as a different person everyday and sees the consequences to peoples actions and knows it isn't the devils fault. Human error comes from the human himself.