Letter to the author of WHITE MOUNTAINS final blog post

Dear John Christopher,

I just loved this book it was great and very interesting. In my school we learned about the word void in it and void means space and with this book the tensity was very attention grabbing. I was always wondering what made you think of starting this book? I also wanted to know if, an event that might have happened that caused you to start writing about Tripods? Does this book have a different meaning to you? For example, as a reader, I think this book is trying to tell me that I should trust my own heart and not what people tell me; and, I think it is telling you, if you are set to do something, don't give up on doing it.


Since I did literature circles, I had thought long and hard about parts in the book and because of that I noticed things that I wouldn't have noticed before. When I read about the cap in Will's arm, and how Beanpole was trying to pull it out, I noticed that, I hadn't really cared much about the reason why he was doing it. Then I began thinking, maybe the author was trying to teach people that, sometimes people do crazy things and that it's good to do crazy things sometimes.


When reading, I was thinking about the names you had put for the characters and I wanted to know what made you think of them. Especially the names Zhan Pole and Ozymandias. The name Ozymandias is a Greek name, I know this because I am studying about a ancient egyptian pharaoh named Ramses II and people called him Ozymandias. Did you know about him?When you open the book to the VERY first page it says, To Jessica: this, and the rest, with love. I thought maybe she had encouraged you to write this book or she had spoken about something that made you think of writing this book.