Margot (:

Margot Hahn
Twisted
Laurie Halse Anderson
Realistic Fiction
Challenge
170

1. Right now in my book the main character Tyler Miller is in the middle of his senior year. Last year he defaced the school with graffiti writing and was then taken away in a police car. Tyler had to work for Mr. Parelli and had a probation officer. Mr. Parelli is the owner of a gardening company that does garden work for the school. Tyler was a loser his entire life, but over this summer he got very buff. Tyler's father works for Mr. Milbury, who is Bethany Milbury and Chip Milbury's dad. Bethany Milbury is Tyler's crush scince middle school. She is the most popular and pretty girl in the whole school. On the last day of summer Mr. Milbury had a party for his friends and coworkers, so Tyler and his family went to that party. Scince Tyler had new big muscles he was challenged to play Chip who was the star football player to an arm wrestle. Tyler knew he could beat Chip in the arm wrestle because when he tried Chip didn't have a chance. Scince Chip was Tyler's dad's boss Tyler had to loose, but Chip knew what he did. Chip pushed Tyler and Tyler fell into the waitressess who were carrying glass cups which shattered all over the floor, sadly Bethany Milbury was inbetween it all. Her foot got badly cut and she had to be on crutches. After this disaster, Tyler's mom made Bethany a cake and made Tyler deliver it. Tyler did as he was told and delieverd the cake. This was the first actual conversation Tyler had with Bethany, and she knew everything she knew how Chip pushed him and how it wasn't really his fault so Bethany forgave him. Bethany and Tyler had a slowly progressing relationship until one night when Bethany told Tyler that she liked him. This was a big break for Tyler so he didn't want to screw it up. He went to this big party that Bethany told him to go to, and by the time he got there she was wasted. Bethany brought Tyler up to a room and tried to seduce him. He rejected because she was drunk and got mad. The next day there was a website with pictures of Bethany naked on a bed. Tyler knew it wasn't him but nobody else did. Everybody saw Bethany take Tyler into a room, but nobody saw him come out. The police just questioned Tyler because he is the prime suspect because he is the only kid in the school who has a record. So right now in my book, Tyler just finished his interview with the police and everybody in school thinks he is an internet pervert. To top it all off, Tyler flipped at Bethany in the hallway infront of everybody and is now having to have classes by himself in a room where teachers will tutor him on their own time between periods.

2. I love the book so far. I think it is very captivating and it has a lot of interesting things going on. This books just makes me want to keep reading because I want to know what is going to happen between Tyler and Bethany, and Tyler and his future. I also want to know if Tyler's dad will keep his job. There are just so many questions that still need to be answered and I love the suspense.

3. I noticed the theme Family. I saw it between Tyler and his family becuase his life at home is really tough. Tyler's dad is always very, very mean to him and is always working. I feel bad for Tyler in that case because it was basically Tyler's fault that his dad has to work that much because of what he did to the boss's daughter. I also noticed it between Hannah (Tyler's sister) and Tyler. I noticed it there beccause they are very close and they sit together at lunch instead of with their own friends.

4. Right now, Yoda is my favorite character. I like yoda so much because he seems like a very good friend. Yoda does things for Tyler because he knows what Tyler is going through such as Tyler's english essay. I know thats never okay to do but I think it was nice for him to go to such great extents to help his buddy. I also like how Yoda even though he practically loves Hannah never asked her out until Tyler said it was okay. I thought that was very noble of him and it shows how much he cared about his friend's feelings.

5. Tyler's dad is my least favorite character because he is such an awful dad. He works all the time, and when he is not working he is ruining always yelling at their family. Such as the time when Mr. Miller yelled at everyone to make him dinner instead when the kids had plans to have fun and go out with their friends. It would be okay if they hadn't already had plans but they do so that is not okay.

6. I think that Tyler will talk to Bethany and they will soon figure things out, and Bethany will believe Tyler and she will drop the charges.