What makes Tyler such a remarkable character is that he is by no means perfect. Tyler’s narration is heartbreaking, honest and funny. Firstly Laurie Halse Anderson did an exceptional job portraying the average youth. This is a great book for several reasons. He is not only tormented by his peers at school but he is also distressed when his father treats him like a criminal. Initially he is happy that he is invited to enjoy along with the popular crowd of the school but after the party where Tyler’s love interest Beth, her brother Chip and his friends get drunk and Tyler is left driving them home, he is accused of doing some unspeakable stuff to Beth.īeing rich, Beth’s family is easily able to take a lot of steps to punish Tyler for the crime he has not even committed. After this incident Tyler develops a reputation as the trouble maker and due to his hard job he also develops the physique which in turn makes him more attractive to his secret crush, the sister of his main tormentor who also happens to be the daughter of his father’s boss, Bethany Milbury. He also has to pay for the damages so he has to sell his car and take a landscaping job for the summer. He is ordered to do community service all summer by helping janitors in his school.
But things don’t go exactly as he planned and he gets caught.
Tyler is sick and tired of being a nobody in his high school and at the end of his junior year he decides to change that by doing the “Foul Deed” which involved doing graffiti on school walls. He is in every way an average guy with an average dysfunctional family. His only friend in school is Calvin “Yoda” Hodge who later becomes the love interest of Tyler’s younger sister. Hannah is Tyler’s younger sister who is just starting high school and whom he completely adores. Tyler’s mother who is a pet photographer, cake baker, and a genuinely nice woman makes every attempt she can to keep her family together but her attempts fail and with every day that goes by she becomes more depressed. He has to face a lot of pressure at work and that is what makes him take his frustration out on his family by being intimidating and controlling. His father works all day long and he is not the kind, understanding father his children would have wanted him to be. The protagonist Tyler Miller has a hard life.
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