Reaction to "I am the Messenger"

After reading this book and writing my blog post about it, we had the chance to discuss it in class. I thought it would be nice to share some revelations I had about the book and how I felt after hearing other peoples' thoughts.

First of all the language in the book was hard for me to figure out and I concluded that it was a British accent, but as my fellow classmates have made me aware it is not, it is an Australian accent instead. I think this affects the my interpretation of the story, how I view the characters, it all has to do with context and this one little detail helped to change some ideas throughout the book for me. The next interesting point that my classmates brought up were the 12 scenarios that Ed was placed into, from the cards. There is symbolism in each card, or so I believe, and what does this to do each of the names, people, addresses, movies on the cards? We can break the book down into four categories: Diamonds, Clubs, Spades, and Hearts. And in each we can thus go further with the subjects of the cards- Diamonds: were addresses- Mila, Sophie, and the rapist; Clubs: names carved on a rock- priest, Angie, and the Rose brothers; Spades: were author names- Tatupu, Bev Kennedy, and the movie theater guy; Hearts: movie titles- Ritchie, Marv, Audrey.

If you are a superstitious person then it could be taken as a sign that Ed was himself the final message when he receives his final card making him the 13th message. There seemed to have been a connection from each card to the next, whether it be the way in which Ed has to deliver the message, how he had to understand the message or even how to decode the message. With the idea of connection on the mind, many of my classmates made the observation, or as I would call it a revelation, that the author was the final guy in which Ed meets, he was the one who orchestrated the events and who was "telling" Ed what to do. Some may believe that the author was the final messenger for Ed and his journey continues on.
I hadn't thought about all of these things before. I wonder what my future students would this of this book?