SPECS on the book Illusions

I chose this book, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, because it’s by the same author as the last book I read, Richard Bach. I like his writing because it talked about the earth and how things are or seem to be. This book is about someone who was just a pilot then he met a friend and his whole life changed. This work is valuable because it teaches you about the world in a way that seems like fantasy and seems to be happening inside the two main characters’ heads, but can still effect the world. The theme of this book is that everything is an illusion. It takes place in an older time, where people have huge farms and older planes.

I would explain this to a third grader by saying, “This book is about a world not too long ago, and in this world there is a person who flies people in his plane for money. But then one day a person came who taught him a new way of looking at life.” The time period of this book is written to be modern day but somehow also has the feeling of taking place at the time of Christ as well. This book made me feel happy and sad in some parts. It made me feel happy when Richard was making a friend and learning lessons from the messiah and it made me sad when the messiah died.

This book is more opinion than fact because not everyone believes in what it is saying. For example, not everyone believes in Christ. And that’s okay. And no, I cannot prove that Christ existed or is real but I think the author believes it. My mom recommended this book because she thought it was good and because she wishes that everyone can be like a messiah and make the world a better place.

This book is inspiring me to read another Richard Bach book, A Bridge Across Forever. I have not even opened it yet but it looks very good. In the book Illusions, the messiah is really nice to everyone and when I am nice to people it effects them and they can be kind back so we are all happy. When I am being nice it affects me because I feel that I am contributing to making the world a better place. And if everyone was nice, then how could there be war? It could make a big difference in world peace, I think.

In this book a messiah wants to teach his new friend how to be a messiah, too. And what I think is that some people will agree with him and try to be nice and change the world and others will think that it’s weird and not a good thing. If I could change an element in the book, I would make it so that the messiah does not die. Then I think that he would finish teaching the boy and maybe even other people. Even if the story was not true I still like to think that people can be nice and change the world with their kindness.