Brick

When Jamie wanted his name to be Brick it kinda foreshadowed something to me atleast, the fact he wanted to be something important. A brick to me makes me think of a house and if one brick falls out the wall obviously won't be very sturdy in that spot. Wanting to be named Brick made it seem as though he was going to have an important part aside from the fact he is obviously one of the main characters. Brick told a lie to make himself important and become a bigger part of the action involving the incident of the boy who he thought was a bird. Brick was thinking of his life list of his birds and the accomplishments he would have and thought of adding to it with this accomplishment almost to be a part of a big story, and he puts the book he stole with the memorial which makes me think his life list is changing.
While reading the story it seems to me that all the characters that seem to be normal have weird names such as Brick, Nella, and Laronne, while Rachel who is considered to be the new girl because of how she looks is the odd one out in a way. This is strange to me because she is the main character since she has the biggest sections and therefor should be the normal one. She is the one who is always called the new girl for multiple reasons. One reason is because of how she looks different, second she is the new girl to everyone in town, and third she could also be seen as a new type of person being born from a black man and white woman. Rachel also starts off as being a girl who never saw a difference between people and since she is being introduced to a different setting and different people the difference in races is starting to show up more in her life which also makes her new in a sense, where as all the other main characters are used to this.
Kevin Ostempowski post 6