Up to the middle of the novel

How my feelings change:

I´m surprised how the book goes on and a bit shocked about Sam and Alicia getting a baby. I find the parents of Alicia react to hard to them. But maybe Sam´s mother only know this situation from her own past and understands how this two teens feel.

Which question(s) I would like to direct at a particular character in the novel:

Sam, do you want to get the baby now or not? And do you love Alicia again?

What I am confused about (events or characters):

I find it needless for Sam to go to Hastings. It´s to much for the story and a bit boring to read. It´s confusing how fast it goes with Sam´s mother and Mark.

How I as the author would have changed the book:

They find Sam in Hastings and bring him home. Alicia don´t talk with him. Anytime Sam is so wondering if he get a baby that he visit her. He found´s out that Alicia does´nt get a baby, the test was negative.

Images/pictures I liked:

• Sam compare hisself with someone who is at the bottom of a sea and the surface is a long way away and there are sharks coming at you..., when his mother goes with him to the cinema and eating pizza.

• Sam feels like a spectator in a stadium when people are running the 10,000 metres in the Olympics when he listens to a talk between his parents.

• Sam is in Hastings and can´t sleep, because he has too much blood in his face.

After the opening chapter(s) of the book

How I feel after reading these pages:

I´m anxious to find out what will happen next. Because these four chapters are like a own story with the end that the relationship between Sam and Alicia has ended. It needs no more acts.

What emotions the book invokes in me:

I´m happy don´t to have such a life like Sam. I like it to have a father and a mother and two sisters. I think it´s easier for a mother to educate a baby when she is older than sixteen. I think she must be at least as old as twenty. So she can make a graduation and learn a good job. Then she has more money for herself and the child. The man would be more decided if he wants to have a baby with his wife. It´s easier to have a true family.

Links/connections between the book and my life:

• I have never ever caused a fight between teachers.

• Last year, when I was fifteen nearly sixteen, the things were ticking along OK too. Before was always something wrong at school, but this year I had good marks and my new class was perfect.

• In our region are less chances to become someone famous than in Berlin or other very big cities.

• I find it stupid to have a boyfriend at the same school.

• I hate it to lie and I would never steal anything.

Words/phrases that caught my eye while reading:

• "I might be the sort of person who´s always being taken to one side and told to apply for college by all the teachers in every subject. You know, and the teachers actually fight over me. `No Sam! Forget art! Do physics!´ ´Forget physics! It would be a tragedy for the human race if you gave up French!´And then they all start punching each other." (p.2, l.10-17)

• "I´m glad there are things you don´t know and can´t guess, weird things, things that have only ever happened to me in the whole history of the world, as far as I know." (p.2, l.23-26)

• "But there´s only one skater, really, and his name´s Tony Hawk. Well, there´s not only one. But he´s definitely the Big One. He´s the J.K. Rowling of skaters, the Big Mac, the iPod, the Xbox." (p.4, l.18-23)

• "You can´t rewrite history, or leave bits of it out just because it suits you." (p.6, l.20-22)

• "Who doesn´t talk to someone in their heads? Who doesn´t talk to God, or a pet or someone they love who has died, or maybe just to themselves? TH ... He wasn´t me. But he was who I wanted to be, so that makes him the best version of myself, and that can´t be a bad thing, to have the best version of youself standing there on a bedroom wall and watching you." (p.9, l.10-18)

• "Sometimes it can seem as though kids always do better than their parents." (p.14, l.9-10)

• "If you say something that isn´t sexist to the right sort of girl, she likes you more. Say one of your mates is going on about how girls are stupid, and you say, ´Not all girls are stupid,´ then it can make you look good." (p.17, l.21-26)

• "The whole point of friends is that you choose them yourself." (p.21, l.27-28)

• "Loads of funny things happen, don´t they?" (p.23, l.29-30)

• "It was one of my greatest moments: all the words came out right, and I meant everything I said, and I was glad I´d said it. I was´nt doing it for effect, either." (p.27, l.27-30)

• "And I hoped that the conversation would turn into something else - a kiss, and then marriage, after we´d been out for a couple of weeks." (p.28, l.3-6)

• "Mum is always telling me that the friendship has to come first, before anything else." (p.31, l.2-3)

• "There were a couple of young mums at my school, and they acted like a baby was an iPod or a new mobile or something, some kind of gadget that they wanted to show off." (p.34, l.4-7)

• "Sometimes it doesn´t matter who you talk to, as long as you talk." (p.38, l.20-21)

• "When I was waiting for a bus, I didn´t have to do anything else but wait, but all the other waiting was hard. Eating breakfast was waiting, so I didn´t eat much. Sleep was waiting, so I couldn´t sleep much, even though I wanted to, because sleeping was a good way of getting through eight hours or whatever. School was waiting, so I didn´t know what anyone was talking about, during the lessons or at break times. Watching TV was waiting, so I couldn´t follow the programmes. Even skating was waiting, seeing as how I only went skating when Alicia was doing something else." (p.52, l.7-19)

• "You know that a bit in a film when they show couples laughing and holding hands and kissing in lots of different places while a song plays? We were like that, a bit, except we didn´t go lots of different places." (p.53, l.3-7)

• "Because if someone tells you she loves you, then you´re bound to say it back, aren´t you?" (p.53, l.20-21)

• "It was like there had been a lot of food on a plate in front of us, and we ate it all really quickly, and then there was nothing left. Maybe that´s how couples stay together." (p.70, l.10-13)

• "So you play these games in spite of the city and, really, it would be better if you lived just about anywhere else, out in the countryside, or the suburbs, or some place like Australia. But skating you do because of the city. We need as much concrete and as many stairs and ramps and benches and pavements as you´ve got. And when the world´s been completely paved over, we´ll be the only athletes left, and ther will be statues of Tony Hawk all over the world, and the Olympics will just be a million different skating competitions, and then people might actually watch." (p.77-78, l.23-3)

My predictions about possible future developments:

Alicia will have another boyfriend. Sam will see them together and become jealous. He will feel that the love between him and Alicia isn´t past. So he will try to get Alicia back. Then Alicia and Sam will come together again. First undercover then official. Alicia will get a baby of Sam. The parents will be appalled.

Sam will meet his father.

His mum will come closer and closer to mark and at the end marry him.


How long it took me to read a certain number of pages:

I didn´t look at the clock while I red, because I red when I had free time.
But I think for the four chapters I needed circa three hours.

First entry

Hello all together,

this is my first entry.

You know probably that we have special duties to do.

So this is the first dutie.


How I feel about reading this book:

I´m anxious about the book, wich we read.

It is this way with all books, which I read.

You never know, what will happen.

But of course you want to know it, so you have to read it (I will begin soon :)).



What I expect:


It´s a book about a teenager in our age, between fifteen and sixteen

(okay the most of us are a bit older).

This teenager, called Sam, is growing up.

He has his first girlfriend and experiences with her this new part of his life.

He is thinking about his future and at the present all will be different than he wishs.

The backroundstory is about his mother, which broke up with her boyfriend.

Surely Sam will understand more about her live and what she did.

He and his mother will become closer, than before.




Other Novels, I red in English:

• The in-crowd, written by Patricia Reilly (in schoolyear eight)


• Abomination, written by Robert Swindells (in schoolyear nine)


• Of mice and men, written by John Steinbeck (in schoolyear ten)

Novels, I red private:

• The wind on fire trilogy by William Nicholson

What I´m thinking about studying texts in the classroom:

You have to read your book at home. But if you speak about it in your lesson, you will understand more of it. You will know more about it, because other students see things in the book, which you skiped. But too much talking about something becomes boring!