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Summary: Teen Anarchy
Review: The book Breaking Point is a book for those who love the exciting lives of teenagers. It is about a boy, Paul Richmond, who is new to a school where he doesn't fit in. He sees the "popular" kid Charlie Good and wants to be just like him. Charlie is a tennis player at Gate and is well liked by everyone. Charlie and his friends see Paul and decided to allow him to hang out with them. Now, Paul is a "cool" kid who treats his mom really badly. His life at home is terrible and is falling apart. Suddenly, stealing, cheating, drugs, and drinking aren't enough for Paul. Charlie and his friends find out Paul is good with computers and use this to their advantage. Will Paul go to the edge to fit in?
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Summary: Breaking Point
Review: The book Breaking Point is on a boy named Paul Richmond who is a loser that switches schools a lot. He attends Gate Highschool, which is a rich school. His mother works there so he gets in free. During the story he becomes friends with the most popular guy in school. He doesnt know that his friend is going to use him to plant a bomb that will blow away the whole school!I liked this book a lot overall becuause it had a very good way of making me keep on reading. there were many exciting parts throughout the book also. I would recommend this book to teenagers mostly. Boys or girls will enjoy this book a lot on teen anarchy. It was great. ~Chara, straight up from Compton
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Summary: From a reader
Review: This book was well-written and provocative. The characters were realistic, ranging from the principal who cares only about his job and not at all about the students, the divorced parents who are too wrapped up in their own needs and desires to take care of their child, the hangers-on who wouldn�t quite be popular on their own, the brainy intellectual who is too smart to fit in. The book also succeeded well at answering the question of why someone would reach the breaking point � why would a high school student be willing to plant a bomb, bring a gun to school, terrorize their classmates. However, I wouldn�t necessarily say that I enjoyed the book. I was fascinated by it, couldn�t put it down, and have thought about it a lot since then. But I don�t think I enjoyed it. There were many reasons I didn�t enjoy it. The first is that many people in this book did truly horrible things that they just got away with. And the few really nice people in the book (Mr. and Mrs. Blanco and Binky come to mind) got nothing but pain and anguish. The big reason, though, that I didn�t enjoy the book was that I never really liked the main character. I pitied him, and I understood why he made the (truly bad) decisions he made. However, I never liked him. He was too desperate for love, too willing to do whatever it took to be popular. Unlike Nick, in Flinn�s novel Breathing Underwater, who grew stronger with more insight through the story, Paul grew weaker and lost any insight that he had. I suspect this character may have had some good points, but they were never really well-developed. After Columbine, I had vague hopes that perhaps people would realize the dangers of marginalizing people who were a little different. Instead, it seemed to give people more justification for excluding them, the idea somehow being that it was being a little different and not years of rejection that led to the violence. I fear, that by making Nick pitiable and awkward, but not especially likable, Flinn has further encouraged ostracism of the different.
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