The Sequel

It takes a little time but it getts better. Ursula speakes with the principal about the bombthreatening and Matt is realesed. But then another problem starts. When Matt gets back to school everybody is kind of ignoring him, even Ursula.

Ursula is ignoring Matt because she´s not sure how to handle things with him, she´s even having little bit of strange feeling about Matt that she can´t locate.

Matt is letting go of a lot of things. His friends, being VP in the junior class, writing for the newspaper etc. He´s becoming tuffer. And he likes it.

I think there is a hidden message in the text. That you should think about who your real friends are. In Matts case his none of "friends" were actually there for him.

First part in Big Mouth & Ugly Girl

The book begins very suddenly when two men pick Matt up during school. I think it´s a good opening because it makes you intrested when something happens directly. I expected that something bad was going to happen to Matt, and that Ursula and Matt would be brought together somehow. I think it´s realistic that something like this could happen, even in Sweden, only not so extrem.

Matt is a big mouth. He easily makes people laugh, and sometimes he says stuff whitout thinking. He´s popular and a very good writer.

Ursula is a big girl, very athletic and strong. She plays for the school basketball team, and doesn´t care about "girlstuff". She doesn´t have many friens and don´t care what people say about her. She calls herself ugly girl.

The chapters switch from being about Matt to Ursula and back again. When it´s about Ursula it´s in a "me/I" perspective, and when it´s about Matt it´s "he", he´s not telling the story himself. It´s more realistic in "me/I" perspectiv, but there can only be one "me/I", or else you can´t see the difference between the chapters.

The beginning of the story - what do I expect?

The book begins, as Tilda already told, that two men came for Matt. I think the author choose this way to introduce the book to the reader, to catch the reader’s attention. The first chapter is written from Matt’s perspective. When I read the first chapter I wanted to know why the cops were coming for Matt. In the end of the first chapter when Matt wonder why they came for him. One of the cops is answering “Son, you know why we’re here”.

When I read the first chapter I wanted to know what was happening next, and it’s a good thing, at least from the author’s perspective. That make me, and perhaps students all over the world, wanted to read the next chapter too.

I expect the rest of the book keep the same standard as the first chapter.

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.

Big mouth & ugly girl

We are 4 girls reading the same book. The name of the book is "big mouth & ugly girl".
Our names is Lisa, Tilda, Ellen and Frida. We go on Spyken in the HU1 class.
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