The third book of the "I Am Number Four" series is a very intricately describes the characters and there emotions and why they feel this way throughout the whole story. I like to compare this book to a watch, very simple, delicate on the outside, but when you really think about it, look into it, it is extremely complicated and well thought out and crafted, to make everything, well, tick. The author of Rise Of Nine, Pittacus Lore makes a character, who love his friends, and that gets him into trouble because it leads him to make rash decisions, and preposterous speeches. John, one of the protagonists needs to focus on what is more important, and put aside things that can be dealt with later.

     When John thinks about needing to save his friends, and not what the real point is, it leads him to have simple-minded, one-sided ideas, which might and can lead to great disasters. For example, when he is discussing about what he and his partner, Nine, should do next. 
     "How exactly are we going to meet up with[Sam and Sarah, his friends] when our only means of communication are being monitored? I Say we head for California...And we demand they give up sam, and Sarah, or we'll start blowing stuff up... or we threaten to tell media that the government is working with a buch of aliens!"
     As you can see, this would not be very smart at all and is very different from what they should be doing, which is going east, and trying to get to his other Garde members, to be able to save the world.
     Whenever John thinks about his friends, it makes his mind wander, which leads him to talk a little too much sometimes. When he talks to much, it may cause different reactions within his comrades, as they are very sensible on some topics, for example, who the strongest Garde is. When John and his partner Nine are discussing some very important topics, like how they would defeat the evil aliens from another planet. I do say evil because John and all the Garde are also aliens from another planet, but are good guys. So John and Nine are reading a letter from his Cêpan, a sort of guardian who protected John while he was developing his powers. The letter clearly stated that one of each of the Garde would take one the powers of one of the elders. John, as his mind was wandering and he was thinking that if he could be the strongest one of the elders, Pittacus, Then he would be able to save his friends all by himself. As a result of mind wandering, he blurted out something very seemingly daft to Nine, " i Am Pittacus" it seemed ridiculous to nine because they hed just been in a fight with each other, and John got his ass kicked by Nine. (Pittacus is supposedly the strongest elder, and nobody else can beat him) Nine reacted very unstably and challenged him to another fight, where nNine could have killed him if he had wanted to. Obviously, whenever heis mind wanders it makes him do things that could endanger him.
     IN conclusion whenever John thinks about his friends or lets his mind wander because of his friends, it leds him to the possibility of getting in danger, or actually being in danger. I like that John is always thinking about his friends, but i aslo dislike that about him because ti puts everyone in danger.