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A Reluctant Messiah Book Report

Decent Essays

Lucas Poupard
Ms. Baudendistel
PreAp ELAR 8th
11 October 2016
Illusions-The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
In the late 1900s, in the open prairies and fields of the United States, an adventurous barnstormer ( an adventurous person who flies around offering fun flights for very little money) named Richard is living his dream. He sells 3 dollar rides that last ten minutes. As Richard is flying he sees a white and gold Travel Air 4000, a biplane, and felt the urge to land next to it. When he landed, he met Don Shimoda, the messiah. Don gives Richard a book called the Messiah’s Handbook (A book that if you have any questions you flip it to a random page and read.) and tells Richard that he is a messiah and how everything is and illusion. He …show more content…

Richard replied, “That one,” as he pointed to the biggest cloud there was. Then he imagined the cloud over a water tower in the distance. Instantly the cloud somehow teleported to directly over the water tower. Don, astonished at how quickly it happened, remarked “Try it again.” Richard tried again, again, again, and again, each time making clouds rain and storm and even forced one to snow, in the middle of summer. Throughout the next few days Richard and Don were just barnstorming, but barely making any money, but they didn’t need much money, because Don was a messiah and therefore his and Richard’s planes did not need fuel. After a week of barnstorming Richard and Don decided to go into a small town and look around for a while. About halfway through the day they went back to their airplanes, which were still in the field that they had left them in. Next Richard determined that he wanted to perform more miracles. “Don!” Shouted Richard. “What, I am right here, there is no need to yell,” responded Don. “I can’t do it anymore,” complained …show more content…

For the next month Richard and Don acted as if nothing had happened and did not talk about anything regarding “The Illusions.” Life was going good for the both of them, they were getting a lot of business and making quite a decent amount of money. Although Richard had not talked about what had happened, he kept asking himself the same question, “What did I do?” “Don...Don wake up,” shouted Richard as he was gently shaking Don to wake him up. “What?” grumbled Don. “What did I do wrong?” questioned Richard “Do what?” “You know,” Richard paused as if waiting for a reply, “remember when I tried to float that wrench a month ago, and I couldn’t?” “Oh yeah. Do you really want to know what you did wrong?” Don mysteriously asked. “Yes!” yelled Richard. “Calm down Richard, it was just a test, I was seeing how you would react to being normal again.” replied Don. There was a long pause as Richard was very disappointed that Don would do that to him. At this point Don realized that Richard was not who he thought he was and thought he was very childish.
“Did I pass the test?” asked Richard.
Don did not reply, so Richard flew away. Don did not go after him, which would result in them never speaking

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