What Makes Us
Rafi Mittlefehldt
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When Eran Sharon leads a protest to stop the police from performing searches and such without actual reason he never expected the large crowd that came to protest with him. The protest is so large it attracts the attention of the local news crew. Things are going great and the news crew is welcome until a group of anti protesters comes face to face with Eran's protest group. Shouting leads to a physical altercation which the news crews have caught on tape and now the story will be aired and available for everyone to see. When the story is aired Eran finds out exactly what his mother has been hiding and finally understands why she never wanted to tell him the truth about his family history. Now with all their secrets out Eran and his mother must face the consequences of actions they had nothing to do with in a battle they didn't choose.
This book was just okay for me. I was interested in this book as the story sounded amazing, however I feel like it came up just a bit short on delivery. There were moments when I felt for the characters and moments that I thoroughly enjoyed them but this didn't happen early enough. The story did a lot of flipping back and forth from time periods and perspectives which just made everything more confusing and harder to follow.
The characters were well done. Eran, our main character, was done very well. He was portrayed as a complete hot head with a short temper for almost all of the book. While this didn't get me to like him at all, it did do an amazing job of showing the similarities of Eran and his father while simultaneously showing the contrast of Eran and his mother.
I like the fact that this book brought up social issues. It forces the reader to take a look at social injustice and how people are judged based upon things they can't control, such as family members and race. We are also forced to look at consequences. Eran pushes a man and faces major consequences for it, but he pays for more than a simple push. He pays for what others believe him and his mother have done. It shows how people can be victimized by simply being who they are instead of the judgments on them being justified.
What I didn't like about this book was that it seemed to go on and on. Even though the story was pretty good and there were so many good parts of this book it still just dragged on and seemed like it was a lot longer than it actually was. This made it hard to stay focused on certain parts of the story as it was easy to lose focus on what was happening.
This cover really catches my eye, love your thorough review. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteThe cover was what caught my attention as well. Thank you, I'm happy you enjoyed my review, I hope you return to read some of my others reviews in the future!
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