1st ROAR post

Summary
My new roar book for this term is going to be," Rule of the Bone" by Russell Banks. This book reminds me alot my past roar book Girl Interrupted because of the personalities of both main characters. In this book the main character is a boy who is a weed head and dosent care for anyone but himself. Ive only read the first 24 pages because i went through a rough time retreving the book. The boy has a rough replationship with his mother and his dad calls him "him" . His father sees the true him which is why his father doesnt let him off on the easy hook like the mom .The mom is very sentimental and lets him steap over her sometimes. The boy is 14 and hangs out with older guys that do drugs, he is around many bad influences andi s leading to nothing good. The boy dosent respect the famiyl since he steals from his own which is even more wrong then stealing from someone else. He has got cought shoplifting, and has shot around the house and all these bad things. He is following bad footsteaps and as I read I bet I'm going to see how he moves past this stage hes facing now.
Quotation
This is the begining of the book and this part grabbed my attention from the start. "You'll probably think i'm making alot of this up just to make me sound better than I really am or smarter or even luckier but im not. Besides, alot of the things that've happend to me in my life so far which I'll get to pretty soon'll make me sound evil or just plain dumb or the tragic victim of cuircumstances"( Banks 1).
Reaction
My reaction to this quote is that the boy is a pretty dangerous and crazy character. He is crazy by how he talks abouth imself and hes 14 being addicted to marijuana at such a young age. Hes shoplifting and hes doing all the wrong things, and look at his age. This boy is crazy by how he manages to talk how he does and does sound evil because of the vavluable coins of his mom, he stole. This boy has no respect and I think tha these two lines sya alot about him. In a way it demonstrates how hes a boy who throughout the book hopefully hes going to come out of that age stage and grow up.