The final final final post is awesome

Now we finally have read the whole book. From the beginning to the end both Matt and Ursula have changed. And it's all because the bomb-rumour. Ursula get more self-confident, and goes from "ugly girl" to Ursula.  Matt then, he gets smarter, and don't laugh before he really understand why. The book ends with a kiss...

This was the last post on this blogg. Don't cry too much  we'll be back ;)

Friendships and Email conversation

I don't think the author have made some kind of research or spent so much energy of studing the language of teenagers today. Or maybe, The author have choose this kind of old-fashioned language to make it all more serious. It’s a serious situation, therefor this kind of language. Why I think it’s so old fashioned is because of the fact that it’s no kind of “slang” words, except “fag” one of the “big boys” yells at him in the “fight”, in the text. 

I think the language, both form Ursula and Math are a little bit to “beautiful” written and it’s all very vocabulary. So, I don’t  get  the feeling  that these teenagers are about the same age as me. Because, I don’t think this is different in the U.S, like the American kids would be like more educated than Swedish teenagers. Instead I think it is the opposite! Haha, maybe because I, myself, is a Swedish teenager.

When I read Maths and Ursulas email/chatt conversation I find myself in this opinion. Very beautiful  vritten and almost no slang words. I prefer this instedt of all all the modern American slang I don’t know about. 

When I read Maths last letters to Ursula I understood all of maths behavior and actions. He tells Ursula his deepest thoughts and that’s very brave and very emotionaly scene I think. The boy who all people hated and avoid shows he’s feelings for a person in a kind of same situation and they both understand. Maybe Ursula don’t have the same cabability as Math to write down her thoughts, But I think Ursula maybe feel that Math puts down her words to. Like Math says the unspoken words both for himself and for “Ugly girl”.

Big mouth takes a break.

In the beginning of the story, as I wrote about in my first post, Math was a positive person and a guy who always thought the best of everything and everyone. But, who can survive this kind of accusation in a good mood?

When the "bomb threat case" was over for the cops was this just the beginning for Math. In school, his so called "friends" stopped talking to him, no one spoke to him at all in fact. I don’t think it was because they were afraid that Math would bomb them, they were ashamed! They were not ashamed of their friendship with Math or something like that, they were ashamed for their own behaviour when Math needed his friends the most. That's my thought anyway. 

At this point, when no one cared about Math he started to harden! His attitude to the teacher was no longer the happy, funny Math. It was a bitter, aggressive and a totally new Math. I think this attitude appears because of his loneliness and he's helpless situation. I understand Maths anger and I feel for him. I would probably develop the same sort of behaviour if I was in that kind of situation.

Ursula, who I just thought was a heartless bitch shows a caring side of herself. I think accualy Ursula is the one who make the school and the cops to stop this false accusation. Ursula make a really stupid desition when she's trying to help Math I think. She can be put in registers but despite that, Ursula, who don’t even know Math in fact, takes a fight for him.

Like Lisa wrote, "That you should think about who your real friends are." I also think that’s a hidden message from the author and it is a little bit of the books purpose, to get people to think about false and real friendship. Something like "how do you know who your real friends are and are you so sure about that?".  Sometimes you’re friends appear were you at last expect them to be. To think of, The first impression you get of a human is necessary not the right one.  

The first pages. Is this realistic?

It all begins with the two men who came for Matt,  they interrupt the lesson and disturbs all of the schools students. We discussed about the realistic in the books beginning. Maybe in the U.S this could happen, probably in some of the getto-neighbourhoods. But in Sweden wouldn't the cops or detectives come at school time for something they don’t even were sure about.

To do a locker razzia they need like permissions in Sweden, but in the book they just came for Matt and brought him with. I think even you need a parents permission to do such a radical intervention in Sweden when the case is about an underage person.

The reader knows even after a few sentences that Matt is a popular boy with a great sense of humor and a talented writer/poet. I don’t know that much about Ursula until the second chapter, at that point the story switches view and I am in Ursula’s thoughts instead. Ursula seems to be the kind of person who is in the deep very unsure. She seems to be an angry, ugly and bitter girl. But.. Is that all there is?

 What we don’t know yet is how Ursula and Matt are going to be involved in each others life’s. We only know that they're going to meet, not were, not when, but in a sudden future their story’s  going to be one.