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HelenaBeat
May 18, 2019HelenaBeat rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Having read this in one sitting, I was in “In School Suspension”, it made quite the impact on me. This book was given to me as an alternative to read for the class project. Having heard it’s name before I accepted and went on to reading. To start this off, this book most certainly does what it had intended to. It introduced and discussed topics to teens about teens, things that many people attempted to hide from. Things as such were, Abuse, Drugs, Sexuality, Abortion, Suicide, the list went on. It was shocking really, going on and seeing how books like this really existed. I wasn’t bothered, I was glad really, the world was making in effort to at least show these things. For an actual critique on the story in how it’s told, I’d say it’s done very well actually. Instead of the usual chapters format it uses letters and parts. Each letter is titled to be sent to Charlie’s friend, and if you paid any attention to the start of the book you’d know that Charlie actually has no idea who that “friend” is. He just heard they could be trusted, and so he does just that. Throughout the story Charlie is describing his experiences in high school for once, giving the stories of other’s that came to him since it was easier than finding the story of himself. In a way it hurt, to see how it viewed it all. Not that it was bad, or crude. It was a description that I’m sure many people going through trying to find themselves would understand. They don’t significant, they feel like they’re in the back. I swear we were infinite.