Lowrie Mccall's Wish List
The Plot
Meg Finn, along with Belch Brennan and his dog Raptor break into Lowrie McCall’s flat, and in the processes of escaping, Belch blows up a gas tank, killing Meg, Raptor and himself. They are dragged to Hell, but on the way, Meg was pulled back to Earth. This was because she has an equal number of good and bad things that she has done on Earth, and couldn’t get into either Heaven or Hell. To get to Heaven, she has to help Lowrie McCall complete his Wish List. In Hell, Belch and Raptor have been combined by the explosion and are sent to capture Meg and take her back to Hell. After she has completed the tasks, Meg goes to Heaven to be with her mother, while Lowrie, who was dying, gets a new lease of life.
The story is about living …show more content…
life to the full, and that anyone can change for the better. It covers 2 years, and what happens is quite unusual, as it is not every day that a soul can’t enter Heaven or Hell, and has to help an old man do things that he wanted to do 50 years ago. It is also quite unusual, as there is a half-boy, half-dog creature in it. The opening of the story starts off a bit slow, but it then becomes exciting and dramatic. It is quite a fast paced story, so the events follow on quickly from each other.
Characters
The main characters are Meg Finn and Lowrie McCall.
Meg Finn is a feisty Irish teenage girl, mourning her mother who died in a car crash. Meg made her stepfather’s life hell after he made hers hell. She then calms down, after she is dead, to help Lowrie complete his Wish List. Lowrie is a pensioner, who lives on his own after his wife, who was an alcoholic, accidently drank a bottle of bleach one night. He has about six months to live and he conducts his wish list to try and sort out his life before he dies. I found most of the characters interesting (Meg, Lowrie, Belch, Beelzebub) as they all had very distinguishing attitudes and phrases or …show more content…
words.
Between Meg and Lowrie, there is a kind of hostile, reluctant relationship at the beginning of the story, but as the story evolves, it gradually changes into a grandfather/granddaughter relationship.
The relationship between Belch and Elph is very funny. Elph is a computer programme design to help Belch find Meg. As he is so intelligent, he bamboozles Belch with big words and they annoy each other to no end. They are a bit like a comedy act, except a lot more evil. Meg calms down a lot in the story, and Lowrie changes from a grumpy, lonely old man, into someone who is happy, and the book describes it as ‘he was becoming the man he could’ve have been’.
Comments on style
The story is written in third person, and I think this is quite important to the story, as the writer can tell you every characters thoughts and feelings, not what they look like they are thinking and feeling from a first person point of view. The story is described in a lot of detail, and I think it is a good story, as it had interesting characters and an imaginative plot.
My favourite moment in the story is when Meg helps Lowrie kiss Cicely Ward. She is Ireland’s favourite granny, and this is on Lowrie’s Wish List, because when he was younger and took Cicely to the pictures, he never managed to kiss her and has always regretted it. This is my favourite moment, because it is very funny, and it is also touching to see them come together after so
long.
I can’t think of a character or moment that could be improved.
General
I think the writer chose to write this story, to tell the reader that anyone can change for the better, and to live life to the full as one wrong decision can ruin everything. After reading this book, I felt glad that Meg had gone to heaven and had been reunited with her mother. I also felt relieved that everything worked how it should.
I think that the writer didn’t tell us everything about the characters on purpose, so we could us our imaginations to create their lives for them. I can’t really compare this book to any others as it is one of a kind. I would recommend this book to lots of people.
Meg Finn, along with Belch Brennan and his dog Raptor break into Lowrie McCall’s flat, and in the processes of escaping, Belch blows up a gas tank, killing Meg, Raptor and himself. They are dragged to Hell, but on the way, Meg was pulled back to Earth. This was because she has an equal number of good and bad things that she has done on Earth, and couldn’t get into either Heaven or Hell. To get to Heaven, she has to help Lowrie McCall complete his Wish List. In Hell, Belch and Raptor have been combined by the explosion and are sent to capture Meg and take her back to Hell. After she has completed the tasks, Meg goes to Heaven to be with her mother, while Lowrie, who was dying, gets a new lease of life.
The story is about living …show more content…
life to the full, and that anyone can change for the better. It covers 2 years, and what happens is quite unusual, as it is not every day that a soul can’t enter Heaven or Hell, and has to help an old man do things that he wanted to do 50 years ago. It is also quite unusual, as there is a half-boy, half-dog creature in it. The opening of the story starts off a bit slow, but it then becomes exciting and dramatic. It is quite a fast paced story, so the events follow on quickly from each other.
Characters
The main characters are Meg Finn and Lowrie McCall.
Meg Finn is a feisty Irish teenage girl, mourning her mother who died in a car crash. Meg made her stepfather’s life hell after he made hers hell. She then calms down, after she is dead, to help Lowrie complete his Wish List. Lowrie is a pensioner, who lives on his own after his wife, who was an alcoholic, accidently drank a bottle of bleach one night. He has about six months to live and he conducts his wish list to try and sort out his life before he dies. I found most of the characters interesting (Meg, Lowrie, Belch, Beelzebub) as they all had very distinguishing attitudes and phrases or …show more content…
words.
Between Meg and Lowrie, there is a kind of hostile, reluctant relationship at the beginning of the story, but as the story evolves, it gradually changes into a grandfather/granddaughter relationship.
The relationship between Belch and Elph is very funny. Elph is a computer programme design to help Belch find Meg. As he is so intelligent, he bamboozles Belch with big words and they annoy each other to no end. They are a bit like a comedy act, except a lot more evil. Meg calms down a lot in the story, and Lowrie changes from a grumpy, lonely old man, into someone who is happy, and the book describes it as ‘he was becoming the man he could’ve have been’.
Comments on style
The story is written in third person, and I think this is quite important to the story, as the writer can tell you every characters thoughts and feelings, not what they look like they are thinking and feeling from a first person point of view. The story is described in a lot of detail, and I think it is a good story, as it had interesting characters and an imaginative plot.
My favourite moment in the story is when Meg helps Lowrie kiss Cicely Ward. She is Ireland’s favourite granny, and this is on Lowrie’s Wish List, because when he was younger and took Cicely to the pictures, he never managed to kiss her and has always regretted it. This is my favourite moment, because it is very funny, and it is also touching to see them come together after so
long.
I can’t think of a character or moment that could be improved.
General
I think the writer chose to write this story, to tell the reader that anyone can change for the better, and to live life to the full as one wrong decision can ruin everything. After reading this book, I felt glad that Meg had gone to heaven and had been reunited with her mother. I also felt relieved that everything worked how it should.
I think that the writer didn’t tell us everything about the characters on purpose, so we could us our imaginations to create their lives for them. I can’t really compare this book to any others as it is one of a kind. I would recommend this book to lots of people.