"About A Boy"
by Nick Hornby. Published by the Penguin Group in Great Britain, 1998.
*Genre: Fiction
*Source: High School Senior Library
*Rating: 4.7 out of 5
*I have read whole book
*2 New Vocabulary words
1: vertigo- n. the feeling of DIZZINESS and fear, and of losing your balance, that is caused in some people when they look down from a very gigh place
2: Abstracted- adj.(formal) thinking deeply about something and not paying attention to what is around you
*There is also movie which is based on this fiction.
(Directors are Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz).
*Best Line: No man is an island
Human must live together, leaning on each other.
*Comment on the opening. How effective?
How does it try to hook you?
What is introduced?
This book starts from introducing 2 different main characters, Will and Marcus.
There are huge differences between Will and Marcus. Will, who is thirty-six but acis like a teenager. Because of his father, although he has no job to earn money, he owns amount of money and play all the time. He reads the right magazines, goes to the club and knows how to get the score from the women. However, Marcus, who is only 12-year-old, is strange. He listens to Mozart, looks after his mum and he doesn't know what is popular now around all the other teenagers.
After the introduction of these 2 characters, the book implies about the future of the 2 peopel- Perhaps if Will can teach Marcus how to behave a teenager and Marcus can help Will to be grown up.
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