Question 1
What is characteristic for Marcus, and how is his relationship with his mother? Comment to answer.
Mia and Kristina
torsdag 11. desember 2008
Short summary
Short summary from the first 80 pages
The homework for yesterday was to read the first 80 pages in the book. ”About a boy” is actually a book about two boys, Marcus and Will. Marcus, the oldest twelveyearold in the world, looks after his suicidal depressive mother, listens to Mozart, and doesn’t really have a lot of friends. He’s just moved from Cambridge to London with his mother, and doesn’t get along very good with his new schoolmates.
Will, a good-looking thirty-six-year-old “teenager”, is totally different from Marcus. He wears the right clothes, goes to the right clubs, reads the right magazines and listens to the right music. He doesn’t work, but live from the royalties of his father’s song; “Santa’s Super Sleigh.” He’s single, child-free.
When Will decides to join the single parent group named Spat to hook up with some lonely single mothers, things start to happen. Will hasn’t got a child of his own, but he solves this problem easily by inventing a two year old son, Ned. At his first SPAT meeting, Will meets Suzie, a single mother. Suzie thinks Will got a son, so she invites them to a SPAT picnic one Saturday. Ned can’t be there of course, simply because he doesn’t exist. So Will has to explain that Ned will be with his mother that Saturday.
At the Spat picnic, Will meets Marcus for the first time. Marcus is there because Suzie’s looking after him for his mother. Both Will and Marcus think the SPAT picnic is very booring. At first they are a little sceptical about each other, but this loosens up when Will decides to cover up for Marcus’ accident, when he kills a duck by throwing bread at it.
The homework for yesterday was to read the first 80 pages in the book. ”About a boy” is actually a book about two boys, Marcus and Will. Marcus, the oldest twelveyearold in the world, looks after his suicidal depressive mother, listens to Mozart, and doesn’t really have a lot of friends. He’s just moved from Cambridge to London with his mother, and doesn’t get along very good with his new schoolmates.
Will, a good-looking thirty-six-year-old “teenager”, is totally different from Marcus. He wears the right clothes, goes to the right clubs, reads the right magazines and listens to the right music. He doesn’t work, but live from the royalties of his father’s song; “Santa’s Super Sleigh.” He’s single, child-free.
When Will decides to join the single parent group named Spat to hook up with some lonely single mothers, things start to happen. Will hasn’t got a child of his own, but he solves this problem easily by inventing a two year old son, Ned. At his first SPAT meeting, Will meets Suzie, a single mother. Suzie thinks Will got a son, so she invites them to a SPAT picnic one Saturday. Ned can’t be there of course, simply because he doesn’t exist. So Will has to explain that Ned will be with his mother that Saturday.
At the Spat picnic, Will meets Marcus for the first time. Marcus is there because Suzie’s looking after him for his mother. Both Will and Marcus think the SPAT picnic is very booring. At first they are a little sceptical about each other, but this loosens up when Will decides to cover up for Marcus’ accident, when he kills a duck by throwing bread at it.
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