Week 1- February 14

What would life be like if you were best friends with the protagonist of your book? What kind of life does he or she lead? Would this be a positive or negative relationship? Would your family and friends approve of this person? Be specific.

In the book The Final Theory, the protagonist is David Swift. Hans Kleinman was a colleague of Albert Einstein when Einstein was working on his Unified String Theory. David Swift was one of Hans' students. Hans is brutally tortured. Once David got to the hospital, his college professor whispered a long sequence of numbers in his ear, seconds before he dies. Since then, David has been chased by the FBI and terrorists trying to get these numbers that could release some information to nuclear weapons.

If I were friends with the protagonist, I would be extremely intelligent. I would also live a life of science. David Swift works for NASA. I wouldn't imagine that he has much free time. Therefore, I would pry be his colleague. This would be a positive relationship. If my family and friends knew the story behind him, they would approve. But if they just knew that he is the most wanted person in all of New York, they wouldn't.