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and uplifting letter to the man who shot ayear old boy Ever wonder what a victim would say to their predator if given the opportunity How possible would it be to poetically, dramatically, and coherently express the depth of one's angst after experiencing a tragic affair Dear Marcus: A Letter to the Man Who Shot Me, does extraordinarily.


Jerry McGill pens a poignant letter to the man he calls "Marcus" who shot him, leaving him a quadriplegic at age thirteen, but giving him more life than he'd ever imagine.
In this "narrative," we are taken through the tragedy, through the course of rehabilitation, through the emotional maze that many "mobile" individuals take, undeniably, for granted.
McGill tells "Marcus" about the challenges he has had to endure, the moments lost, and the triumphs gained despite his obvious tribulation.
For the reader, the journey is heartwrenching but hopeful, calloused but not condescending, dismal yet magnificent.
It answers the aforementioned question, not with ease, but with clarity, If nothing else, Dear Marcus, . . provides a memoir of hope for the most hopeless of circumstances, It, the book, gives value to one's existence and charts the long road toward the recovery from adversity.


This is a must read for both victim and predator and those curious, It is a reminder that there are two sides to the demonic ills that exist in America's larger cities and smaller communitiesand Jerry McGill guides us, painstakingly, through both sides.
I have read many powerful books in my life, but none touched me as deeply as this heartfelt story of Jerry McGill.
After being shot on the street at the age of thirteen Jerry found his life forever changed.
He was shot in the back resulting in a spinal injury which would ensure he would never walk again.
While others would have drowned in their own selfpity, Jerry found a way to deal with his demons and come out a bright and shining adult.


By addressing this book to his attacker, thirty years later, the reader is allowed into the deepest thoughts of everything Jerry has gone through in order to become the man he is.
The ultimate theme of the book is forgiveness and personal development, Jerry has worked through his anger and dissatisfaction with his situation and has emerged with a beautiful personality that only brutal honest can give a person.
In his book, he ranges from blaming his attacker for what he has taken away to thanking him for all the opportunities his attack presented to Jerry because he gained a new viewpoint on life.


Upon finishing this book, I not only wanted to embrace the author for everything he shared with me, but thank him for taking the time to pen these thoughts to paper.
You will think twice about how you view people with a disability and how much they can accomplish.
You will also understand how all of our lives a valuable and interwoven, even when we don't see the threads.
I recommend this book to everyone! I would love to one day get the chance to meet this wonderful man and thank him in person for what he has given to me through his beautiful, brutally honest story.
I can't believe someone had a life this hard and wrote a book so easy to read.
A coffee, a beer, done, This would probably be great for high school students not younger, deal with some adult themes.
I've got to remind myself to reread this book if I ever lose my own faculties McGill's reminiscences and meditations on being wheelchair are a powerful testimony to the human spirit.
Recommended by a friend and initially intended to be read as a read aloud to middle schoolers um.
. . that's a negative, Dear Marcus is a memoir best read by adults and young adults,

I enjoyed the beginning of the book where Jerry McGill writes with conviction and strength about his earlier life preceeding the fateful night when he was shot in the back by an anonymous shooter.
I especially liked how each chapter read like a screenplay, For example: INT. HOSPITAL ROOMDAY "Jerome sits up in his wheelchair in front of a canvas, . . "

By the end of the book even though Jerry is now an adult and has reinvented his life through impressive schooling and jobs, he begins to sound, well, preachy.
I hesitate to even say this because I have full range of motion and can get up and go without being tied to a wheelchair.
Nevertheless, Dear Marcus remains an inspirational tale of the indomitable spirit we all have if we seek to dig down deep.
Some of us, when faced with the darkest hours in our life find a hidden strength.
Some don't. Jerry did. And his attacker, no matter if he/she is still alive or dead, didn't win,

"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from, "

" maybe, just maybe, growing up deprived of love is the worst thing that can happen to a person.
Maybe he who never cries is doomed to live in a prison of his own heart's making.
"

"For me, one of the most disappointing aspects of the entire experience was that I never really got to fully thank those folks for all they did for me.
I wish so much that they knew how much I appreciate everything, It's almost like I feel incomplete as a person never having said these things to them.
However, I know that nursing, like teaching, is one of those thankless professions in which the person going into it does so not because they want or need instant gratification.
No, they do so because they earnestly care many of them feel a calling to the work.
They have accepted that the path of life is such that the person may not reap the fruits of their experience together until years, maybe decades later.
It is selfless work that requires much heart and great inner strength, I can only hope they know how much I love them, "

"Happiness is a thing I can control if I put my mind to it.
It is my perspective and how I choose to see my life that is really going to make the difference at the end of the day.
"

" at the end of

the day all that will matter is that under the dense weight of all that occurred, when all was said and done, you had the strength and the fortitude to lift yourself up, open the door, and step out into the light.
"
This is an interesting book, especially as the author seems to be a completely different person from me.
I like the writing, the storytelling and the fact that the book does not become a miseryfest.
Also, it's quite informative when it comes to the situation of people with disabilities and the many obstacles they have to deal with.
Also one learns quite a bit about living in a "bad" neighborhood and what it means for the children growing up in one.
But overall it's a book filled with hope, forgiveness and quite tough selfevaluation,
Jerry got shot at the age ofand lost the use of his legs, The attacker was never caught, And yet Jerry manages to overcome this and writes this book to the shooter, offering to forgive, but not to forget or excuse.
And here comes the part where him and I are very different people I would probably spend my life hating and selfloathing, while he makes the best of the situation.
That is something I respect, Also our perceptions of relationships with the opposite sex could not be more different, but again, this is not good or bad.
It just is.
Overall a sincere and well written book, worth checking out, This is a straightforward, quick read of a memoir, interspersed with brief life scenes presented as screenplay outtakes.
Young people will take to reading this book with ease, I suspect, I also appreciated very much the choice of Rainer Marie Rilke for the epigraphnot what you'd expect in the story of a young black man who was senselessly shot by chance one day on the street when he was in junior high and had to come to grips with life as a quadriplegic.


This is the tale of that adjustment, but it does not fall into the trap of selfobsession or selfcelebration that too often consumes the contemporary memoir as a literary form.
Instead, there is a direct and honest accounting that rings true, so that the work avoids schmaltz and instead truly offers inspiration.
McGill's message is not only inspiring, it's wise, and the title reveals his clever method of coping: working out his relationship if he could have one with the unknown assailant offers a procedure to build a worldview and a perspective to help him get the most out of life.


There was a reference near the end of the book that made me suspect the author, Jerry McGill, had turned up as a character in a book I read a few years ago by Dalton Conley another memoir of growing up in that tough part of New York in the same time period thes entitled Honky.
Turns out I was right, as a quick read of the Acknowledgements at the end revealed.
I'm glad both of these young men got their stories shared with a wider audience there are important life lessons in both, whatever your race and whether you've ever had to deal with a sudden unexpected calamity or not.
This is summer reading hopeful, We'll see. It is certainly inspirational, but I'm not sure some of the language will fly, very inspiring. Humor mixed with a lot of other emotion, It made me laugh it made me cry, It seems as if writing the book helped to deal with the life even that was very tragic.
It defiantly showed how he turned a negative into a positive, Definite must read for anyone who has encountered a tragic even in their life, he showed usthe reader the different phases of what he went through with this life changing event.
I won this as part of a goodreads, com first reads giveaways. Shipment was very fast. Definatly a great book and one i would read time and again, people could alot from this book, It should be apart of every college level english comp class, It would change the way people think about people with disabilities, This has inspired me to to write "a letter" to certain people in my own life to help with some issues i have.
the person who shot him may never read it but to me it was a great therapy tool that helped overcome a lot of the emotional side of what happened with him.
Highly Recommended to all my friends, The idea to write to you was not an easy one,
The scar from where the bullet entered my back is still there.

 
Jerry McGill was thirteen years old, walking home through the projects of Manhattans Lower East Side, when he was shot in the back by a stranger.
Jerry survived, wheelchairbound for life his assailant was never caught, Thirty years later, Jerry wants to say something to the man who shot him,
 
I have decided to give you a name,
I am going to call you Marcus,
 
With profound grace, brutal honesty, and devastating humor, Jerry McGill takes us on a dramatic and inspiring journeyfrom the streets ofs New York, where poverty and violence were part of growing up, to the challenges of living with a disability and learning to help and inspire others, to the long, difficult road to acceptance, forgiveness, and, ultimately, triumph.

 
I didnt write this book for you, Marcus, I wrote this for those who endure,
Those who manage, Those who are determined to move on, .