Choice Book Report 1 - Far from Gringo Land

I read Far from Gringo Land by Edward Myers. In this book there is a character named Rick. Rick is a very hard working, quick learner, truthful, confident, well mannered, and charming person. Rick is very hard working because he needed to carry hundreds of sand bags, cement mixings, hundreds of stone bricks, and many other heavy things only by hand. He also had to shovel lots of cement to make it even and quickly run to get more and more water.

            Rick was a quick learner because he had to make walls with bricks. He was showed how to do it only once and was left to do it alone. The people who he worked with said he did an amazing job. Even Rick felt he was getting the hang of it. Even with cuts and blister on his hands, Rick kept working and didn’t complain.
            Rick was very truthful because a man wanted help to do something illegal to get money but Rick would not help the man. Even when Rick was bribed with lots of money he would not help. 
            Another good attribute that Rick had was that he was very well mannered. He was well mannered because when he was with the family that was building, he tried to be careful of what to say around them. He always said "thank you" whenever he was given something or helped. 
            A good characteristic that Rick had was he was very charming. Whenever girls walked past him they smiled and waved. One girl asked her to come over to her house and became great friends. He did have a girlfriend back in Colorado but broke up with her because he had to go to Mexico.
            These characteristics are good examples that make Rick a very interesting character.
              

           Point of view- In this book it is told in third person. If it was told in first perspective, it would have been more difficult to read because he is doing more than talking. Rick is building a house so it is more descriptive with third person. It would maybe skip a little of what he has to do or is doing if it would have been told in first person because the character may say what he's thinking more than what he's doing. At the start of the book, it was hard to read because I am so used to first person. In addition, normally beginning of books tell about the character, this book could mostly only tell about physical appearance and not so much about the character itself.