about a boy book analysis
Could anyone please help me in a question about the book by Catherine Forde : Fat Boy Swim?
I have to write a 200 word analysis on Jimmy Kelly. Could anyone please give me some points to write please….
I already know a few but I need a little bit more…
Thanks
this is all i can find for you
Like Bobbie Marks in Robert Lipsyte’s One Fat Summer (1977), obese 14-year-old Jim Kelly feels that he’s “suffocating under his own sticky weight,” and his schoolmates’ dramatic bullying doesn’t help. His only confidence comes from his extraordinary cooking skills, which he keeps secret from everyone except his family. Then a new, aggressive soccer coach, whom Jim privately names G. I. Joe, badgers Jim to gain control of his health. Finally relenting, Jim asks Joe to teach him to swim, and his surprising ability in the pool and his growing friendship with Joe reveal astonishing family secrets. Scottish author Forde tells a gripping story about self-discovery and the thrilling transformation that sports can bring. Writing in a clipped, lively Scottish idiom, Forde describes with graphic intensity the brutal bullying Jim suffers, his passionate self-loathing, and his loneliness. Some plot coincidences and antidiscrimination messages are a bit heavy-handed, but the messy ending is satisfyingly realistic; despite his newfound swimming talent and a slimmer physique, Jim still has complicated, unresolved questions about who he wants to be
Animal X- Aragami no Ichizuko Volume 2 chapter 4
