June Is A Greek Summary

Summary of the book: June is a geek. A geek who is in love withe her uncle and obsessed with the middelages. She has no friends apart from said uncle and her sister is allways mean to her. Atleast thats what she thinks. There is however a slight problem, her uncle has aids and dies in chapter 2(or 3 somwere around that point). This means that june is compleatley alone and that she doesnt have any friends at all. To her rescue comes Her Uncle's secret boyfriend who is dealing with a simmilar situation. Together they set out on a life changing jurney and june changes alot as she leaves he childish thoughts behind and feelings behind to acend to matureity. Along the way she encounters new friend and learns more of the story her parrent have kept from her all these years.

June's fathers diary(dont know his name) (insert date written in the retarded MM/DD/YYYY format here)
It has been 3 weeks since toby died and everything is starting to setteldown.
June and Greta have had a hard time during the latest tax season and I wasn't there to help them. I should have realised that Finns death would be too much for them to handle alongside mine and Danny's abcens. The road may have been a bit rocky but we made it through. After we got the portrait back from the man who came to examine it we sat down so that everybody could lighten their hearts. It's insane how much you dont know about your kids, I thought I had full controll and that I would be able to see if something wasn't right. But boy was i
wrong.

It turns out that Greta didn't want to become a broadway star at all and that she didn't want to leave the nest just yet. She said that she thought if she didnt become an actor we would be disapointed. So we came up with a plan to get her into a school nearby were she could continue her studies and still live with us. She seamed very relieved when she got the mail telling her about her being acepted.

June had aperently been skipping alot of classes just so that she could see Toby. And while it's nice of her to think about him, this behaviour left a clear mark on her grades and she has had alot of catching up to do. Despite this recently she has showed greater improvement and the teachers have comended her on her change.

However the one that has changed the most is Danny. For a long time i had been suspecting that something wasn't quite right with her and low and behold during our confession circle she said that se had never really come to terms with finn leaving when they were young. She said that she felt like he abandoned her and stole her of a future as an artist. I think it felt good to finally admit it and she has been way more cheerfull lately.

So everything is going well in the fammily and the portrait still hangs on our wall. It seems like danny added a few details without Greata and June notecing, but I did and i think it looks great. I am starting to think that the things June drew when she ”violated” the painting might have had some meaning behind them. Or perhaps I am just a bit to philosofical today. Anyway i have a meeting at 5:00 and i have to swing buy the supermarket to pick up some milk on the way home so I'd better get going.

As he drew the last stroke of his pen june's father closed his diary and gathered his things from his desk. On teh way out of the office he met Marget who looked terrified as she was franticly trying to dial a number on the phone in the lobby. However June's father paid little attention to this as Margret was a rather ... well lets just say she was easily startled. Had he known the reason she seemed so scared he would not have taken the stupidly slow elevator dow to the ground floor. But he didn't so he took the elevator and by the time he heard about the fire that had broken out at the school, June was just a charred corpse. The end

Not part of the text so I guess its optional to read it(but it contain my thoughts on the book and the way the leassons were constructed.)

You thought this was going to be a nice epilog of the book didn't you.
There was more action in this text than in the entire book combined.
If you have any complaints about the lenght of this text i will be happy to present them to my previous teachers.

So the book was about as good as I expected a school book to be. Many times it felt unecearily lonng. It felt like the book was taunting me when i knew I only had a few days to finnish it. It was like the book was saying ”he he he i am going to make you read all these pointless descriptions of every mondane thing the main character encounters”. The book did however contain soem things that are food for thought. For example how society expelled and isolated the peapol with adids.
Eaven though i disliked the book I did very much enjoy the bookcircle and we had some great discussions. If you were to repeat this with another class i would encurrage you to pick a book that like this one has alot of discussion material but is alittle easier to read(or has more ”meaningfull” content). The Book circle was very fun and you should do that again. Also the words that my classmates and I picked were a bit iffy and pehaps it would be better if you picked words from the book. Now I understand that would be alot of work for you to do that every week but then perhaps we should wait with the words untill we are done with the book.