Will Grayson, will grayson is a collaboration book between John Green and David Levithan where two separate stories of two teenage boys named Will Grayson collide. The first Will’s goal is to follow his rules he established for life. 1) Don’t care too much, and 2) Shut up. He spends most of his life following around his friend, Tiny Cooper, and repressing his feelings, as seen here, *excerpt 1*. The other will is a misunderstood, angry, angsty sort of kid. He hides everything he feels. This will has depression, not many friends, and a stressed out mom. He puts her through so much. *excerpt 2* The book may seem like it would be confusing to follow but there is a big difference between the two will graysons. One is Will Grayson with correct capitalization, and the other is will grayson, with no capitalization at all. This way, the reader can distinguish John Green’s and David Levithan’s writing.…
This story shows that the boys like to show off to each other. Max shows off to the boys. Max the character trying to showing off is crying but pretends not to be after a scary situation. Max is scared in paragraph forty five the author states “he watched us as his horror stricken face slid away. This shows he was truly scared and when his face had…
In the book I was reading their were these two characters named Tito and Gus. Tito and gus were best friends since kindergardon. Gus was really funny and had alot of street smarts. In one part of the after Titos brother got shot Tito came home after school and gus followed him when tito went inside their was gang tagging all over the walls and someone was in his house. So tito went and hid under his bed. Then someone pulled him out and draged him outside and stuck his face in the dirt. When he was let up it was gus. Gus said are you crazy they want you dead. Towards the end of the book gus started to turn to gang banging and taging gang signs on the walls. At the end of the book Titos dog disappered and…
How would you feel about jumping off a 50 feet cliff? Scared? Brave? Excited? Vinny and Joe-Boy are both characters from a story called “The Ravine”. They are best friends who live in Hawaii and go to a place where a boy named Butchi died 2 weeks and one day before they arrived.The main characters, VInny and Joe-Boy, are similar in many ways, but are different in other ways.…
First, I am going to talk about friendship and a conflict involving friendship in this book. Tom and Mouse were best friends. They went to Donnelly High School and lived in St. Paul. One day, while Tom was working at the grocery store, two men came in and robbed the grocer, Mr. Kerr, while he was working. Tom heard the two thieves and noticed one of the two voices. The voice was Mouse's. Tom didn't know what to do, he could turn Mouse in, but then Mouse would probably hate him for life. On the other hand, Tom could tell no one, but he would have to live with the guilt. Tom later in the book goes to the sheriff and tells on Mouse.…
How can two people who are so different, have so much in common? In S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders, Dallas Winston and Johnny Cade are perfect examples of this situation. Johnny is law abiding, but Dally likes to break laws. Dally likes to fight, but Johnny despises violence. However, despite these differences, Johnny and Dally both have a rough home life and they both care a lot about each other. In The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton, Johnny and Dally are different in some ways, but they also have…
Boy is Dunstan’s doppelgänger, his inverse in every way, especially in their physical appearances and their value of religion and spirituality. Boy is handsome and successful by any measurable societal sense, yet insatiable, going on to end his own life while wrecking the lives of Leola and his children throughout the novel. Boy gradually drifts from religion until he becomes totally spiritually empty and so spiritually deprived his greatest wish is suicide. Boy never addresses his shadow, unlike Dunstan, and so he dies an incomplete, unhappy man. This contrasts Dunstan at the end of the novel who is quickly closing in on his own individuation thanks to his ugly, wise…
Throughout the last two weeks, I have been reading Marie Lu’s Legend. I am currently on page 200 of the book. This book is about a girl and a boy who live very different lives but eventually come together. The boy’s name is Day and the girl’s name is June. Day is a wanted criminal for the things he has done to the government and he also killed June’s brother. June joins the military and becomes highly ranked quickly soon after her brother’s death. Her job is to find Day and bring him in so he cannot cause any more damage to the government. When the two meet June does not realize that the boy is Day and slowly starts to fall for him. Eventually she finds out it is Day and realizes that he killed her brother and she has to tell the military. While reading Marie Lu’s Legend I have been, predicting, questioning, and visualizing.…
The book “Trash” ends with the protagonists Raphael, Gardo and Rat starting their new life together. In the course of the novel, they faced many challenges and their friendships grow. Each character has qualities, which helped build this friendship. The many qualities they present as individuals allow them to out smart and allude the police. Thought the book strangers become friends and accomplish tasks that the average dumpsite boy couldn’t dream of.…
The two main characters in The Stotan are Walker and Jeff. Walker is the main character in this book; he narrates the book by writing in his journal. Walker is the captain of the swimming team in his high school. He has many issues in his life for example his brother being a drug addicted and his parents being old for the age that they had him. He does his best not to let any of it get to him and always does his best to encourage his team mates during the season. Jeff is the oldest out of all of the friends and team mates. He is also to be considered the most mature in the entire group. He has a reputation of being considered a “tough guy” and was diagnosed with a blood disease and is becoming much weaker every day and is expected to die. In the beginning of the book the coach of the Robert frost high school swim team ask for some volunteers for stotan week. Four of the boys on the swim team decide to sign up. When the boys signed up they did not realize that their entire winter break would be spent doing 4 hour work outs during stotan week. During stotan week the four boys began to get to know each other pretty well and eventually started sharing things about their personal lives. The theme of this book is that you only know someone’s name and not their story of their life and what they have been threw and to not judge others without getting to know them. This book affected my view on everyday activities because I truly don’t know people but I still judge them witch I should not but instead get to know the person.…
Levi’s relationship with his brother Boaz seems rocky. There are quite a few ups and downs. When Boaz first arrives home, Boaz would not come out of his room. Levi could somewhat relate to how Boaz was feeling. Levi ended up letting Boaz use his laptop. Everything was going fine until Boaz found out that Levi was looking through his history. Later when Boaz finally leaves for his trip Levi gets worried about him and is curious on where he is going. A few days later Levi goes looking for him.…
4. The man and the boy think of themselves as the "good guys." In what ways are they like and unlike the "bad guys" they encounter? What do you think Cormac is…
As i read pages 350 -351 i realized many similarities between Joe Rantz life and my own life. Frist i understood the frustration of playing a game plus not having the game go the way I want it ,with the lead going back and forth. I also understood having supporters doubting the team till the very end . while reading i related to the thrill and excitement of winning and feeling that all the hard work a practices were worth it . Also, have someone on the side cheering for me either way the game goes .As I read these pages i connected with joe through his frustration and excitement he faces while he rows.…
In the book The Outsiders written by S.E. Hinton, Ponyboy had a few things similar to me. For example, we are honest to our friends. We both go to a good school that will give us a good education. And the last thing is we both have a brother. I will also be talking about how we are different in these paragraphs. I do not smoke and Ponyboy does. Ponyboy lost his parents in a car accident. And Ponyboy is in a gang, and I am not. Even though Ponyboy and I have several differences, we still have similarities within each other.…
was a sense of morality. As the novel progressed, and as the two men made further…