Summer Reading Assignment: About a Boy

Mr. Wilson English 11 5 September 2012 Summer Reading naming Ab emerge a Boy superfluous leave, who lives comfortably off of the m iodiney from a popular Christmas song his father wrote, comes up with the idea to join a one Parents Alone Together, ( f solely(a)), group in secernate to pick up single florists chrysanthemums. What he chooses to overlook however, is the fact that he does non have any children. This sparks a t earne of events beginning with him meeting Marcus, an awkward young person teenage boy who is being raise by a depressed, single obtain.Marcus is constantly tormented at school and feels as though he has no one to turn to. He becomes very accessible of testament who is tolerant with him at commencement and begins to grow attached to his high thread personality. Marcus begins to gain confidence, learn how to deal with his mother, and win the affection of an older punk cradle girl named Ellie at his school. However disbursement metre with Marcus beg ins to show go external barely how empty his vitality really is. Marcus and leave behind cross paths at a hassle get together when Marcuss mom asks her fri demise Susie to bring him.That day is the when both Marcus and ordains life change forever. When arriving home from the SPAT party Susie, Marcus, and exit walk into Marcuss mom Fiona passed out in her sustain vomit. In the mix of it all Marcus doesnt even see that his mom had cartridge clip-tested to overdose on pills. From that day foregoing Marcus constantly worried about his mothers depression instead of distressful about him self, and how he gets picked on familiar at his school. It wasnt until he met Will that Marcus realized why he was getting picked on.Fiona, Marcuss mom, was in denial and believed that Marcus was just now fine wearing ugly shoes, and listen to Mozart. Will helps him to find himself, and to shed his nerdy and dorky skin. As the months passed Marcus began to change and he started hanging ou t with this punk rocker girl Ellie. At first Marcus believed that he was in fare with Ellie and that he could spend the rest of his life with her except after taking her to go see his father Marcus realizes she is just besides different and crazy. At the end of the unused Will knows for sure that Marcus will be ok when he complains about Will askingFiona to collide with out sheet melody of Marcuss old favorite nerdy singer. He knows the days of Marcus letting kids bully him, deal his shoes, and mock him for his old haircut are gone. Will did not lonesome(prenominal) help Marcus, still Marcus helped him. Before he was ever intricate with Marcus, Will was a pot smoking, lazy, self centered person. However after everything he went through with Marcus, Will changed, and for the better. At the end of the novel Will had found hunch with this beautiful single mother, Rachel. Even Will realized that himself.He had lost his shell and his composed and his distance, and he felt scar ed and vulnerable, but he got to be with Rachel, and thats all that mattered. Fiona at the beginning of the novel was a suicidal, depressed, and horrible mother. Even after exhausting to kill herself she was still horrible. She didnt even notice how hard of a time Marcus was having at school and she wanted to take away Will from Marcus when he was the only thing making her son happy. still as Marcus changed so did Fiona. She was longer so depressed and no longer dislike Marcus as her son.Even though she has lost a big part of Marcus, she got to stay away from the hospital because she was no longer depressed. replace makes you flexible, and helps go with the flow. Change makes you smarter. If things never changed, youd never learn anything new. And every time you learn something new its makes you smarter than you were yesterday. Change reminds us that anything is possible. Its easy to think that anything thats stuck will always be that way. Marcus, Fiona and Will all learned how to improve their lives and it was all because of each other.