I read it in 6th grade.
It was ok at the time... I don't remember much from it.

read it for school at 14. Must say, i hated it, the "twist" was stupid

Vouch this... might read it again to refresh my memory of it.

it was a decent book teaching young ones about the government and how the government screws you oer and hides certain facts from us

I don't believe that was the point at all.

what else was it?

Well what I gathered from the book was more along the lines of being ourselves and not trying to normalize society, just accepting people and things for how they are because they're what make life interesting. We shouldn't hide our feelings or emotions just because they may have some unintended consequences. Basically that we should experience life "as is" and take the good and the bad, and just work our way through them.

This post was edited by Conri on Jan 6 2009 08:21pm

It was a good read- bad ending however.

How was the ending bad? I loved the ending.

very buddhist interpretation, nice