Give a Boy a Gun

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Summary: Give a Boy a Gun
Review: "I don't know if I can really explain why I did this. I guess its because I know that ill never be happy. I know that every day of my life will hurt and be a lot more bad than good. Its entirely a matter of, what's the point of living?" Have you ever been picked on so much in school you feel like killing everyone including yourself? Or do you see kids getting picked on and you can tell that it's killing them inside but you keep walking? If so, you should definitely think about reading this book. This realistic fiction novel takes place in Middletown High School. Brendan and Gary have been getting teases and harassed by some of the football players in school. I really enjoyed reading Give A Boy A Gun by Todd Strasser because I could relate to the book and the events that where going on, there was never a dull moment, and I loved the end of this book.
Give A Boy A Gun was one of the few books that I could relate to. In fact, I think most teenagers could relate to this book. It takes place in a high school and kids get picked on every single day from the older or cooler kids. This same situation takes place right here in my high school! People teased for the way they look or what there wearing and nobody does anything about. Everybody just acts like nothings even going on and totally ignores it or joins right in with the crowd so they don't get picked on themselves. Have you ever wondered what they are saying to themselves while they are being mocked and humiliated?
There was never one part in Give A Boy A Gun when I got bored reading it. Right when I opened up to the first page, there was excitement from beginning to end. In the beginning of the book, Brendan and Gary would always get picked on and hit from the other kids. No one did anything about it. Not even the teachers! During the middle of the book, they both where getting really sick of it and couldn't take it. They talking about doing something about it but they did. At the end of the book, Brendan and Gary don't just sit around and let the other kids make fun of them. Its unexpected what they do because they are always talking about what they want to do and how they are going to do it, but never go through with it. But not this time!
My favorite part of the book was the ending because it was the most exciting. I couldn't put the book down it was so good! I really enjoyed reading the end because that's when Brendan and Gary start to take action and it's so real. Nobody ever thinks that somebody will one day crack and start hurting people physically.
I can really understand what is going on in this book, it caught my attention right from the beginning, and the ending of the book was my favorite. You may think you are in a safe school; everybody gets along, nothings going to happen to you. But until you know what others are really thinking, anything can happen.

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Summary: Give a Boy a Gun
Review: "Everyone being teased and picked on, Pushed against lockers, just the general feeling of fear in the school and you either respond to a fear by having fear, or you take action and have hate." - Brooks Brown. Gary Searle and Brendan Lawlor were the kind of students who were not like the others. They both went to Middletown high school and were both best of friends. Gary's parents went through a divorce; they were the kind of people who were protective of their kids. Brendan moved from Springfield, he wasn't much like Gary, but they still were friends. He was popular, athletic, and intelligent. Soon after he moved he was picked on. Gary and Brendan turned their social life into a life of hatred by using violence. By reading this book, Give a Boy a Gun, by Todd Strasser, you will understand more about violence and bullying in school, how little things like being teased and taunted can mean so much to someone and soon turn into violence, and family issues including divorce and moving.
"Anyone who wasn't big and strong and on a team got it." Brendan and Gary went to a big school. It wasn't like they could tell a teacher if one of them got pushed or shoved into a locker. Whose there to see? Your peers and people you hang out with can come out in your personality. They way you look, act, or feel about something a different way then the popular crew, you are known as an outcast or you don't fit in. Eventually people do something about other people bullying them. They attack the problem not the result.
Brendan and Gary had each other to talk to about the people who picked and bullied them. The littlest things can mean a lot to one person; it can impact on them and make them feel even worse about their self image. In the book they get made fun of They expressed their feelings in the end with violence and pay back is returned to the people who made their lives miserable.
Gary's parents went through a divorce which added to his level of hatred. Brendan moved to Middletown. At first he was popular and fit in. He was the same way at his old town until he moved to Middletown were he was bullied and taunted. Both these things added to both Gary's and Brendan's life and made it much harder.
This book expresses bullying and being tormented by students in the school and in the end leading into violence. It makes you realize that the small comments and actions you give your peers, has a big impact on someone's life. Family can also ass to this problem. Bullying isn't the only thing. Overall the book was very chilling. It caught my eye at the first sentence. If you are feeling the same way like Brendan and Gary, I would suggest you read this book; violence isn't the answer to everything. Think of the lives you can take away. Push through al the hatred bullies make you feel and be yourself!

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Summary: Give a boy a gun
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Bullying is a everyday occurrence but one day at Middletown high Gary and Brendan got pushed too far. "Give a boy a gun" by Todd Strasser us a book that shows just how serious the outcome of bullying can be. This book is a type of realistic fiction. Gay and Brendan get bullied non-stop from the jocks and popular kids at their school. Someone who likes shocks, violence and action should read this book. Because this book is realistic, no boring parts, and full of surprises it's a great read.
This book is very realistic. While reading this book it brought back flashbacks of news reports of the night of columbine. Two boys sick of being tormented and made fun of, steak a small arsenal of guns and hold classmates hostage at a school dance. The people involved in Columbine and Give a Boy a Gun are very similar, just a few boys who cant take being made fun of anymore. This book is so realistic to real events.
This book has no boring parts from the first sentence to the last sentence it is filled with scenes that catch your attention. Brendan and Gary do things that will make your stomach turn but at the same time, you will not want to put the book down.
" Give a boy a Gun " is filled with many surprises. Every page you read is filled with twists and things that will happen that you don't expect. This book is different from all other books I have read. At parts it can be gory and graphic but that is what makes it the kind of book that it is.
This book is realistic, full of surprises and not boring. This is a quick read that is filled with many things that make it great! The best part is the ending. Things that I would change about this book is that instead of having people tell about what happened, actually make it a story with plot, and tell the story like it actually happened. Someone who likes shocks and thrills that is in their teens and up should read this book. Give a boy is great!


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Summary: Become a reader
Review: Have you ever been bullied just because of your interests or personality? Teenagers Brandon and Gary are bullied at school and get even, turning their enemies into their victims of fear. You should absolutely read this book due to its realistic situation, the plot progresses slowly allowing suspensions making you not want to put this book down, and the genius way the book is written. All this in Todd Strasser's "Give a Boy a Gun".
The realistic situation is so real you can actually feel Brendan and Gary's anger slowly progressing through this mind-blowing book. Read quotes of seemingly real characters that depicted the plot perfectly. Like a quote from Gary's suicide note "Dear Mom, by the time you read this, I'll be gone, I just wanted you to know there is nothing you could have done to stop this. I know you have always tried your best for me, and if anyone doubts you, just show them this letter. I don't know if I can really explain why I did this. I guess it's a matter because I know I will never bee happy, I know that every day of my life will hurt and be a lot more bad than good. Its entirely a matter of, what's the point of living?" The fact that this book is based on real situations in schools today that most kids can relate to seeing or feeling creates spine-tingling thoughts and suspicions who could be first to go.
The fact that I could not put this book down was amazing. I didn't think I would like this book from the cover but I was entirely wrong. People who hate reading finished the book the first day shocked me when they told me how fast they read it, but I soon realized that I too had trouble pitting the book down. Every page got me more and more interested into each quote or piece of suicide note. Every page was filled with wonder and mystery of each twist in the plot.
I think the key to this book's success was the perspective of it. Instead of having the point of view from one main character, there was only a compilation of quotes from every one of their fears on each part of the story. Their exact thoughts and worries for the main characters, Brandon and Gary are heard.
Concluding, the book is a marvelous must reader because of the realistic plot, the suspension, and the perspective that allow owed you to feel all of the emotions of many characters at once. My favorite part was the middle of the book where Gary and Brendan just started to sink into actual planning because it showed how they decisively made bombs and thought about what to do. I liked the book throughout and there was no least favorite part of the story. I would not change anything about this book. This is a true must reader for everyone ages twelve to twenty because bullying happens all throughout a teenager's life at school and anything is possible. Even if you don't like to read, take my word that you will become a reader from this novel.


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Summary: Uncontrollable Weapons
Review: Guns in school are an all too common problem in America now a days. Give a Boy a Gun by Todd Strasser is a realistic fiction about two young teens, Gary and Brendan, who get constantly teased and taunted by jocks in Middletown High, until they hold their entire school hostage at a school dance. Entwined in the story are facts about gun control, guns in school, and other general facts about guns. This book has great character development, spectacular plot and plot twists, and well built suspense.
The character development is amazing, due to indirect characterization. They go into a lot of detail about every character's actions, responses, and facial expressions. They also use great direct characterization. Because the book uses views from multiple people, you see all their opinions of the different characters.
The book also has amazing plot and plot twists. The story is fascinating and will make you want to keep reading. Unexpected events keep happening, and just when you think you know what the ending will be, and how troubles will be solved, a fantastic turn of events changes your whole point of view of the story.
The suspense of the story is magnificent. It is well built, especially near the end. When reading it, you feel yourself scared for the characters in danger and anxious for the character that is getting his way.
With such fantastic character development, amazing plot and plot twists, and terrific suspense, this book is easily the best book I've ever read. My favorite part is near the end, where the boys are holding kids hostage, and my least favorite parts are whenever Gary and Brendan are teased or pushes around. You start to feel empathetic for the boys during the story, and while you read, you want the bullies to face misfortune and other dark fates. Any teenager in high school or even middle school who gets teased, tormented, or pushed around by a bully or anyone else should read this book. Also, any teen who has heard about or knows about guns in their school should read this.


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Summary: Hardcore Page Turner.
Review: Are you lacking excitement in your lives? Do you need something to do in order to throw some thrill into your day? The book Give a Boy a Gun by Todd Strasser will do just that. This book was really good because it had a great writing style, it was suspenseful and the characteristics were so realistic. This book shows what horrible things can occur when you push someone to far.
The writing style from this book is so great because it was so unique. The story is written through the eyes of many people as if you were going up to each of them and asking them what happened to keep it intense the story from another person.
The story definitely keeps you on the edge of your seat. When I first picked up the book I read half way through without trying to. The story is so suspenseful you do not want to put it down. Even if you do not like reading you will want to end at a certain chapter, but the chapters all end in exciting parts. You keep saying to yourself," I'll just read one more."
The characters in this novel are beyond belief realistic. The main characters Brendan and Gary are the "punks" or people in high school that are not really popular. The book shows how kids, especially teenagers can make wrong choices or be corrupted by other mislead youth. All of these characters have personalities and they do change, just like how you could hang out with someone for a long time then they get on your nerves or begin to change into a different person than whom you were first hanging out with. You do not hang out with them as much after that. Anyone can change and this book shows the slow transition and how it could happen so easily.
This book was great and I highly recommend it to anyone who is in or graduated from high school. It shows the slow but dramatic change in people and places.


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Summary: Give a boy a gun the best book ever
Review: Have you ever wanted to read a thrilling book with a lot of suspense? You won't be able to put the book down if you read give a Boy a gun by John Strasser. It is the best book ever. Three reasons why this book is great because it has a lot of cliffhangers, well-se characters, and a lot of action.

There are a lot of cliffhangers in this story. At the end of most chapters you see left with a cliffhanger that really confuses you and makes you keep on reading. In the story when the gym incident takes place you read about how someone gets shot and the next thing you know is that the chapter ends. A cliffhanger can really make the story interesting. It can prevent you from putting the book down. If there weren't any cliffhangers in a story it wouldn't be good.

The characters are very well set. The two main characters are Gary and Brendan. This story is about their lives and their suicides. It is basically a documentary because all of the people who have witnessed the incident tell the story from their perspective. The characters that tell the story hate Gary and Brendan or used to be very good friends with them. They all relive the incident and tell the story about it.

Finally the last reason is that there is a lot of action. At first the story starts kind of mild. It tells about how everything started and the early years before the suicide of Brendan and Gary. There is a lot of gun use. They tested bombs just to make sure that when they used them they worked the way they should.

Give a boy a gun is a great book it has plenty of action: a lot of cliffhangers, and the story is set up in an interesting way. I recommend this book to people who like books with a lot of action, especially books that involve guns and bombs. Read t his book and I'm sure it is the best book you have ever read.


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Summary: Give a Boy a Gun
Review: I thought the book Give a Boy a Gun was a very interesting and very true to reality. I liked the book, but at the same time I thought some parts were hard to read about because of the reality and the hardships that Brenden and Gary had to go through. Such as being pushed around by the jocks and when the teachers never stopped the bulling. Give a boy a gun was about two high school students that were outcasts and always got picked on. After being bullied around by the jocks and the popular kids, Brenden and Gary went on revenge for all of the pain and suffering that they have gone through during their high school years. Over all, I liked the book because it gave me a new perspective about how horrible and hard some kids life can be. I would advise anyone to read it if they are having a hard time in school or like to read about hardships and school shootings. A very eye-opening story.