Blog Post #6: Mood

In my book, "Deadline" by Chris Crutcher, I am starting to feel very interested but also kind of empathetic. The main character Ben Wolfe has fallen in love with a girl named Dallas. But I just find out that the boy we thought was her brother, is actually her child. Her uncle had sexually abused her, causing her to become pregnant. Ben had made the decision to stay with her no matter what. He knew he was going to die within a year anyway. I feel empathic because Dallas has had to keep this secret and put up with a baby boy when she was 13. It must've been very stressful since she has to keep the secret form everyone except for her mother, all of her life  I also found out that the man Ben has been trying to help out, know as the "town drunk" has also sexually abused children in the past. This is why he is always getting drunk. I have a prediction that the "town drunk", Rudy is Dallas's uncle. This is why the mood interested comes to my mind as I read this book.