Bob Goff Love Does

Critical Analysis

In the book Love Does by Bob Goff, the main character and speaker in the book is Bob Goff. Goff tells about his life stories in each chapter and how each story in his life showed an example of God’s love and stories in the Bible. Bob Goff was a mediocre student, with very few friends in school. He took a test to get his high school diploma and graduated school early. Goff was just like any other young and dumb teenager that thought he knew everything there was to know.

Bob Goff had met a friend while still in high school named Randy. Randy was older and already graduated. Goff was interested in him because he seemed really cool. Randy had a motorcycle, which to a high schooler made him very cool already, and he seemed to have quite a few friends. There was something different about Randy, Goff thought, but he could not quite tell what. Then Bob Goff found out that Randy was a Christian, and Goff did not really know a whole lot about Christians and Christ, but he did not think they could be this cool. Randy did a lot for Bob to show that he cared a lot for Bob.

Before leaving he stopped by Randy’s house to say goodbye and thanks for everything he had done for him and also for being a great friend. When he got to Randy’s house to say goodbye, he was hit with a huge surprise, instead of Randy trying to talk him out of it like he thought he would, Randy ran inside grabbed his things and said he wanted to go with him. Randy agreed to go with Bob until he got a job and settled in, and then Randy would find a way back home. So they packed up what little they had into Bob’s little Volkswagon and left from California and headed to Yosemite National