About A Boy Chapter Summaries
About A Boy chapter summaries
1. Marcus intro- relationship with mum/splitting up with Roger.
2. Will intro- How cool Will thinks he is/visits John and Christine/not fit to be a godparent.
3. Marcus- fears and insecurities/bullied at school/singing in class.
4. Will- meeting Angie/begins his interest in single mothers.
5. Marcus- mum’s (Fiona) depression/isolated at school- other misfits don’t like negative attention Marcus brings.
6. Will- SPAT/the hunt for single, attractive mums/pretending he is a father (invents Ned)/meeting Suzie.
7. Marcus – we discover Marcus’s dad has a new girlfriend (Lindsay)/ The newsagent incident (bullied again)/Fiona’s depression becomes worse/Marcus is told he has to go on a picnic with Suzie (Fiona’s …show more content…
Will has a crisis of conscience and feels guilty (changing again). He wants to help Fiona but feels he is not the right sort of person to do so. Rachel advises him and says she will come along and meet Fiona to help him.
31. Marcus’s dad has an accident and asks Marcus to come and see him in Cambridge. Marcus initially refuses (seeming more like a typical teenager than ever before) but then changes his mind. He asks Ellie to go with him secretly without his mum knowing.
32. Will goes to meet Fiona, expecting Rachel to join him for moral support. Rachel does not turn up and Will is left to speak to Fiona alone. He realises Rachel has done this intentionally to make him face up to his fears. Initially the conversation is awkward but by the end of the evening he seems to have grown again and he realises that he was more able to help than he first thought. At the end of the chapter Fiona and Will discover, through an answer phone message left by Marcus, that he is in a police …show more content…
Write about the relationship between Marcus and Will and how it is presented.
2. Write about the relationship between Ellie and Marcus and how it is presented.
3. Write about the relationship between Rachael and Will and how it is presented.
4. Write about the relationship between Will and Fiona and how it is presented.
5. What do you think of Ellie and the way she is presented to the reader?
6. Imagine you are Will. At the end of the novel you think back over its events. Write down your thoughts and feelings. Remember how Will would speak when you write your answer.
7. Imagine you are Marcus. At the end of the novel you think back over its events. Write down your thoughts and feelings. Remember how Marcus would speak when you write your answer.
8. In your opinion, who or what had the greatest influence on Marcus? Support your answer with detailed reference to the text.
9. Show how Marcus is affected by ‘dead duck day’.
10. To what extent is it possible to feel sympathy for Will?
11. How is the character of Ellie important to the novel as a whole?
12. How is the character of Fiona important to the novel as a whole?
13. How is the character of Clive important to the novel as a
1. Marcus intro- relationship with mum/splitting up with Roger.
2. Will intro- How cool Will thinks he is/visits John and Christine/not fit to be a godparent.
3. Marcus- fears and insecurities/bullied at school/singing in class.
4. Will- meeting Angie/begins his interest in single mothers.
5. Marcus- mum’s (Fiona) depression/isolated at school- other misfits don’t like negative attention Marcus brings.
6. Will- SPAT/the hunt for single, attractive mums/pretending he is a father (invents Ned)/meeting Suzie.
7. Marcus – we discover Marcus’s dad has a new girlfriend (Lindsay)/ The newsagent incident (bullied again)/Fiona’s depression becomes worse/Marcus is told he has to go on a picnic with Suzie (Fiona’s …show more content…
Will has a crisis of conscience and feels guilty (changing again). He wants to help Fiona but feels he is not the right sort of person to do so. Rachel advises him and says she will come along and meet Fiona to help him.
31. Marcus’s dad has an accident and asks Marcus to come and see him in Cambridge. Marcus initially refuses (seeming more like a typical teenager than ever before) but then changes his mind. He asks Ellie to go with him secretly without his mum knowing.
32. Will goes to meet Fiona, expecting Rachel to join him for moral support. Rachel does not turn up and Will is left to speak to Fiona alone. He realises Rachel has done this intentionally to make him face up to his fears. Initially the conversation is awkward but by the end of the evening he seems to have grown again and he realises that he was more able to help than he first thought. At the end of the chapter Fiona and Will discover, through an answer phone message left by Marcus, that he is in a police …show more content…
Write about the relationship between Marcus and Will and how it is presented.
2. Write about the relationship between Ellie and Marcus and how it is presented.
3. Write about the relationship between Rachael and Will and how it is presented.
4. Write about the relationship between Will and Fiona and how it is presented.
5. What do you think of Ellie and the way she is presented to the reader?
6. Imagine you are Will. At the end of the novel you think back over its events. Write down your thoughts and feelings. Remember how Will would speak when you write your answer.
7. Imagine you are Marcus. At the end of the novel you think back over its events. Write down your thoughts and feelings. Remember how Marcus would speak when you write your answer.
8. In your opinion, who or what had the greatest influence on Marcus? Support your answer with detailed reference to the text.
9. Show how Marcus is affected by ‘dead duck day’.
10. To what extent is it possible to feel sympathy for Will?
11. How is the character of Ellie important to the novel as a whole?
12. How is the character of Fiona important to the novel as a whole?
13. How is the character of Clive important to the novel as a