Ed Kennedy is pretty much your average person until he accadentally stops a bank robbery. Then an ace appears in the mail and his life gets turned around. He goes from being an underage cabdriver who is in love with his best friend and owns a coffee addicted dog. To a messenger. Someone who helps other people and makes other peoples lives better. While being a messenger he has to figure who is doing this to him and why. Throughout the book Ed Kennedy learns how to be become a better person by believing in himself.
Ed becomes a better person by meeting new people and helping new people. One of the new people he meets is Milla, an old woman. She is very old and she thinks that Ed is her dead husband. In order to make her feel better he reads stories to her. He also helps a girl win a race. He does thi selling her to run barefoot instead of using running shoes. He also helps a priest fill his chapel by throwing a party. By helping all these people he becomes a better person.
Ed becomes a better person by helping people. This is a good lesson for humanity because sometimes we feel disinclined to help people. By making someone else's day better, we make ourselves better. This is what Ed learns in the book. He is so focused on completeing the messaages that he doesn't realize how much of a better person he has become.
