After making all the entries we have to

So I made all the entries we had to. But I forgot to make more than this list which was given to us. But it ment explicit don´t to limit yourself. So hier is my "more than be limited" :).

The audience Hornby is writing for:

I think especial for young people in our age (teenagers).

Problems/conflicts the characters must confront:

• To be in love with someone.


• To be pregnant.


• To have another familystructure than other teenagers (very young parents, singled parents...).


• To become in a very young age parents.


• To live in a different family.


• To grow up.

The stake for the characters in these conflicts:

The most stake you have when you become as teenagers parents, because you lose your own childhood and a lot of chances.

Discoveries the characters make:

• They aren´t the only young parents (Sam sees it in the internet). ´


• It is hard to have a family, but you can be proud to have one.

Parallel scenes/repetitions:

• The early parenthood of Sam and Alicia and the parents of Sam.


• All the "dreams" of Sam in the future become fulfilled.

What effect it has that Sam tells the story:

• We know his feelings and are affected by him.


• We only know and experience the things he knows and experiences.

How the author uses the idea of time and the chronological sequence of events:

The parents of Sam tell us the past. Sam tells the present. TH tells us the future. So we are slipping between the times.

How I feel about the ending:

In the book the story could end at a lot of passages in the text, but on this one I want to know more, more about Alex, Robert.... It´s like an open ending. (I don´t like it here! :( )

The most important idea in the novel:

You can manage all, if you want to do do it. (Sometimes when you have to do it and don´t like it to do too)

Do I feel manipulated by the autor:

No, I don´t think so.

If I enjoyed reading the novel:

I always like to read a novel, you can sit there read and do nothing, it´s like holidays. (Only holidays to do in holidays reduce your holidays!)

At least a picture of a "really great book":

After finishing the novel

Are my first impressions given a new meaning now?

No, I don´t think so.

What I learned that I never knew before:

I know now names of skateboardstricks like "Olli"(but I have to say that I don´t understand how to do them).

How Ihave changed after reading the book:

I have no bad prejudices about skaters anymore.

Who I would like to recommend the book:

Maybe the next englishclass :). Because it´s easier to read such a book than a set book.

Who should not read the book:

First certainly someone who doesn´t speak english, because he wouldn´t understand anything. Item I think it´s better to read for young people than for old, because young people understands better the minds of Sam (With old people I mean people above forty) or at least the minds of Sam´s mother and father. Then people out of countries like Afrika wouldn´t understand our europe-culture maybe. Otherwise I see no reservations.

After having read more than half the novel

Questions I would like to ask Nick Hornby:

• How did you come to the idea to write such a book?

• What do you want to show with your book?

Poems/pictures/videos I know that might go well with the atmosphere of the novel:

Rufus Wainwright "Hallelujah"

"I had to look at the CD machine to hear a man singing a slow song and playing piano." (p.267, l.1-3)

A Rose
by Elizabeth
A lovely rose with petals softA scent so sweet and light

So beautiful a flowerWith colors shining bright.

But something not so savory

About the fragrant rose -

The thorns, so sharp upon the stem,

That sharpen as it grows.

Yet still lovely is the flower

Despite the thorns that prick

Just as life and love are sweet

They too have thorns that stick.

But do not fear to live or love,

Life's not exempt from pain -

So pick a rose, you may get hurt,

But you will also again!

A rough summary of the events so far:

Sam goes with his mother on a party of a friend of his mother. On this party is the daughter of Andrea (the friend), called Alicia. The mother of Sam knew this girl please Sam, so she take him along. Alicia and Sam get together. They look the most time TV in Alicias Room or have sex together. At the end Sam is bored of such a relationship and get rid of her. But Alicia is pregnant. Sam dreams of his future: He leaves with Alicia together in the room of her with the baby and his mother is pregnant. Sam doesn´t like this imagination and escape to Hastings, there he realize that much things can be bader than having a baby and comes back. When he and Alicia tell it both parents, are the shocked. They don´t want to believe that this two did the same mistake like Sam´s parents, because they got Sam, when they were sixteen too. Sam has a second dream which happens when Roof is two years old, he doesn´t live with Alicia together anymore, but at his home. His mother has a little girl born. Because of this dream Sam knows what will happen next: Alicia doesn´t want a abortion and so she becomes the baby. Sam´s mother becomes pregnant too. The baby gets the name Rufus, because while the birth they listened to the CD of the singer Rufus Wainwright. Rufus Jones.

Which idea in the novel made me stop and think, or was new and exciting for me:
That it can happen that a thirty-two old mother becomes grandmother. Because you think exactly the sam mistake can´t happen again and also in the same family one after another.

Something I enjoyed:

The childbirth of Roof: All the misteries because of the name become solved. You never thought his name is Rufus because of a singer and the best: He is called Roof because of his dad Sam! Sam was the one who didn´t like the name and wondered who gave it to this baby.

Something I felt annyed of:

The second dream of Sam, because before all seamed that Alicia, Sam and the Baby becomes a happy little family (I, for one thought so) and now all become destroyed: Sam lives with his Family again and broke away from Alicia. Only the baby grew to a sweet little boy.