Independent Reading: Book Title (Prompt # 18, Chapter 7)

Page 69, " In New York City there are three centers for people living on the street: Central Park, Grand Central Terminal, and Central Booking."

Central is a key word in the quote, and the book's deeper theme. It relates to the lives of people living on the street, and where they stay. It also applies to the message of self choice, and modivation. The Book's Title is Grand Central Winter: Stories from the street. I believe that the author chose this title becasue of its importance to his journey. I believe the author chose to include Grand Central Terminal in the title of his book, because it's location, and importance to his overall theme. Grand Central Terminal was where the author changed his life, and became a writer. But it was also where he spent his time while on the streets one winter. The title also relates to the overall theme simply by the use of the word central. It relates back to his theme of self choices, and modivation. That his life was the center of all his choices. Stringer chose to be homeless, and he chose to become a writer. Those choices were modivated by his wants. Stringer went from wanting to have no impact, fading into the crowds at Grand Central Terminal, to wnating to impact he world through his story. That his time onthe streets led him to become a new man.