Peak and His Dad

            I am sure glad that my parents were not Joshua Wood and Teri Marcello.  If they were I could have had a strange name like: track, run, teach, math or gym.  Well I guess Gym would not have been bad until people realized how it was spelled.  Peak Marcello of Peak by Roland Smith was given his special name because of his parents’ interest in mountain climbing.  My parents did give me a special name but at least it was just my father’s name.

            I would like to be like Peak Marcello in other ways though.  I think it would be great to go on an adventure with my dad.  Peak got to climb Mount Everest with his dad.  When he made it to the top he became the youngest person to ever climb Mount Everest.  Although I may not have had such an adventure with my dad, I have been lucky enough to spend a lot of my first 14 years of life with my dad and go a lot of places with him.  Peak hadn’t seen his dad for several years before the court allowed him to go live with him.  Peak missed his dad and didn’t feel like he knew him.  I know my dad and he knows me.

            It is more than just not knowing his dad that I found strange.  As they are getting to know each other, Josh tells Peak to call him Josh and not dad.  I think that this makes him more like a big brother than a father.  I can’t imagine what it would be like now to try and get to know my dad. 

            Reading Peak has pointed out that not all families are alike.  Each family has good times and bad times.  It took Peak getting arrested and an injured faced in order for him to get the opportunity to get to know his father.  But because of his difficulties he has the opportunity of a life time, a chance at an adventure and a father.  I enjoy reading the book and think I would like to do a mountain climb one day, maybe even with my family, but I will skip the arrest and plastic surgery on my face and keep my sometimes annoying sister and parents.