Week 3 4.18-4.22.11

Be sure to include quote and page number!!)

You must use at LEAST 2 quotes from the book.

Understanding your character is a good way for you to really get into your book and see from another person's perspective. In your response this week, describe your character. Think about and discuss:

-1. your main character's personality

- 2. how they act/behave

- 3. what they look like

- 4. how old they are

- 5 what sort of education do you think that they have

- 6 who their friends and family are

- 7 what their financial (money) situation is

- 8 and what their job is (if they have one).


I am still reading My Rotten Life by David Lubar. My main character is really a dramatic dork. He sits at the “Second Besters Table”, he is a lier who tries to impress other kids, and is a video idiot or “vidiot loser” as another student on page 26 calls him. Nathan acts like a nervous boy when he lies to impress his classmates. In Art class the teacher had to leave and all the students pulled out hand held games, except Nathan and Abigail (a girl in the class). Nathan wants to play another student’s, Caleb’s, game and lies and says he knows how. But he doesn’t – he loses his first man in 3 seconds and his second man 4 seconds after that. Caleb says, “Nathan’s setting a record…for fastest looser” (pg 26). When all the kids crowd him he says, in his mind, he felt closed in like he couldn’t breathe.

On page 14, my character is described as, “The second skinnest kid.” He has asthma very bad, especially when he runs or works out. I think that he is a very pale looking boy because he doesn’t sound like the type of boy to play outside. Nathan says in the book that after school him and his BF, Mookie, hang out at Mookie’s to play video games. Nathan is a bad runner and poor athlete, because of his asthma, but he is good at chin ups.

Nathan goes to Belgosi Upper Elementary in East Carven, NJ. He is a 5th grade student who is probably 10 or 11 years old (all 5th graders I know are 10 or 11). I have no idea what his financial situation is because we haven’t met his mom and dad. He just says that, “my mom thought video games are violent and my dad thinks they are a bad investment”, pg 27.