On The Fringe: Geeks Bearing Gifts 10-2-13

 story one: Geeks Bearing gifts *spoilers*

•  Describe your least favorite character and explain why. Describe your most

favorite character and explain why.

Pages 1-28

       So The book I am reading is a collection of stories, connected by only the common theme of being left out, or being an outsider. On the inside cover it says "These are some of the fascinating  teens found within this electrifying collection of stories about the outsider experience. Written especially for this anthology by today's most acclaimed young adult authors, the tales provide a powerful, provocative view of high-schools sharp border lines."

       The first story is about a girl named  Renee who is doing a school newspaper article on the oddballs in her school for the last scholarship entry for a journalism school she wants to go to.  She interviews some of the school moms, a few of the "Resource Room" kids (as I understand it it's like special ed or something) and some of the kids with different sexualities.  One of the Resource room kids, William, she gets along with quite well, which irks her boyfriend Bobby, who is overly protective and has a rather short leash on her. he always wants to know where she is. This is why he's my least favorite.
"Molly frowned. "Bobby's beepin' you from across the room?"
"Don't look at him."
"I'm already lookin' at him, he's got his cellphone up to his ear."
"He's got you on a short leash, girlfriend. Is he worth it?""

       My favorite character however, is William because he's pretty relatable. People think he's a drug addict because he has to take a lot of medication, but he needs it.
"I'm like a guitar that has to constantly be tuning it's self. Other wise, my strings snap!"
I think he's relatable to me or my brother because one of the prescriptions he has is Ritalin, which is a medication for ADHD, which I have (Adam has ADD) , though we both use a different medication. Also, he got Renee to realize how absurdly restricting Bobby is when he keep nagging to find out if William is trying to make a move on her, and wanter her to stop doing the article because it takes up a lot of her time and he can't see her as much.
"You know those people you keep calling freaks and losers? Well, I like some of them."
"What are you talkin' about?"
She laid the beeper right in front of him. "Don't call me for a while, ok?"
"If you go out with that retard William, I swear to god I'll kill him."
"I'm not going out with anybody ok? I'm going to read this book about outsiders. I'm going to sit in  my room to think."
A pretty good ending of that story to me.