Authors Note: This is a text analyses piece about the book
Zach’s Lie by Roland Smith
Moving is one thing,
being forced to move lose everything you ever loved. Is a whole different animal.
Sadly this is what happened to Jack Osborne and his family, after their house
is ransacked. They’re forced in to the witness protection program. Forced to
change his hair, eyes and name. To make things worse he loses his dad as the people
that robbed the house have ties to warlords in Mexico and his dad has been trafficking
their product. As his formally world crumbles around, he has to build a new
one. Jack now has to live a lie.
Being pushed out of your home is something no one would like
to have happen to them. Sadly we see this everywhere. For example in the story Between The Shades Of
Grey by Ruta Sepetys. Lina, her brother and mother are taken from their homes
in Lithuania. Pushed to the coldest part of Siberia. The Soviets treat them
like dogs, people die from malnutrition and or freeze to death. The difference between the two are Jack and
his family are given the basics necessities to live but have to be someone there
not. Lina on the other hand has to fight to survive and is given little to no
food to survive, but doesn’t have to be someone she’s not. You decide which is
better.
All in all Jack makes do `with his life and cares on. He has
to fight back the remnants of his past life. It’s hard to imagine your whole
life being sucked away and then being put in a new city a new house a new
bedroom having to play pretend. Jack was barely able to hold on to this live
without selling himself out and getting in trouble. Would you be able to live
with a lie
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