I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore

I chose the poem "Desert Places" by Robert Frost because the lyrics fit with the story line. In the novel the main character moved to earth from a distant planet. He was one of the 7 people left of the lorien legacy which gives him special characteristics. But since he is number 4 he knows he will be the next one killed by so he must stay on the run. Since he is always on the move "the loneliness" Is starting to get to him. As he stays moving he looks out is window into forests or "a field" thinking about if he will ever get to stop and have a life.  But of course he could not or he would be killed just as the others were.

John and Henri have to leave their life because the third person was killed. They move to a small town called Paradise where they find a house with "the woods around it" to not be noticed. He still goes to school but must be discrete about being noticed. He must show "no expression" but show enough so he doesnt stick out like a sore thumb.

John must learn and mast his legacy to be able to survive. He must learn to fit in and accept that earth is now "home".

Desert places

Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast
In a field I looked into going past,
And the ground almost covered smooth in snow,
But a few weeds and stubble showing last.

The woods around it have it - it is theirs.
All animals are smothered in their lairs.
I am too absent-spirited to count;
The loneliness includes me unawares.

And lonely as it is, that loneliness
Will be more lonely ere it will be less -
A blanker whiteness of benighted snow
WIth no expression, nothing to express.

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars - on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places. 

Robert Frost