Book Report on Gods of Manhattan - Part II

   

     This week I finished Gods of Manhattan. I still believe that the main idea is that you can't trust everyone. In the end of the book, Rory goes to tries successfully to get the key but when he gets into the vault, he questions Hex, the magician. After that, everything goes crazy, Hex escapes and Rory is caught and has to lie about his name until his sister saves him. Then they meet the Rattle Watch and try to save each other. After that, the Rattle Watch all go to a bar but then Albert, a Rattle Watch member tries to kill them. Albert tells them that he is going to kill them so they trapped him and brrought him back to jail. Then Hex wants Rory to turn the key again but when he gets there he gets the truth out of Hex and doesn't turn the key. Instead of helping the Indians as Hex said, he wants to kill them. I think the main idea is that you can't trust everyone.

    This is the main idea because when the Rattle Watch was getting close Albert tricked them so they would die and become a God of Manhattan. If the Rattle Watch trusted Albert then they would have died and then the evil gods would win and take over Mannahatta. But they didn't and they put him in jail and the evil God didn't take over and the Rattle Watch helped a lot with that.

    Another example of this is when Hex wanted Rory to turn the key because he said he wanted to save all the Indians. Rory knew that once the Indians were freed they would try to kill the mayor but would get killed trying to do it. If Rory trusted Hex then instead of saving the Indians he would kill all of the Indians forever.

    All in all, Gods of Manhattan was a great book and showed me many examples of the main idea, which is that you can't trust everyone. In the second half of the book, it showed me this with Albert when he turned his back on the Rattle Watch and when Hex wanted all of the Indians killed. There were also many more examples in the first half of the book. This them continued throughout the book.