![]() Ricardo was pathetic sprawled on the hall floor, not crying this time but blinking a lot and not talking either, like he was in bed that morning and he didn’t want to get up and go to school for some reason. I got up off Ricardo’s chubby back, peeled myself off that authentic, autographed blue hockey sweatshirt he wears every day with the stupid hole in it, and I wiped off my big old carpenter pants. The bell rang for English class and I’d promised Mr. That’s how it went for fat Ricardo Manzana. Grab the two lenses between your big hands and twist your wrist-just snap the part over the nose-now you can’t see anything for the rest of the day. Change that curve a hair, just a tiny, minuscule difference, and you can see near. Grind the glass this way, put in a slight curve, and you can see far. But definitely they mean you can’t see without them. Little pieces of glass stuck on your face that mean everything. They’re just glass and metal, or glass and plastic. ![]() ![]() You see them every day but you really don’t think about them, I bet. Think about a pair of glasses for a second. Meanwhile, friction is developing between him and his close friends, which all comes to a head at the end of the novel. She asks if his mother (a seamstress) would create the costumes, and he agrees but creates them himself after stealing from the drop off box for a thrift store. Through the course of the book he becomes intrigued with a girl who's an artist and is putting on a play that she wrote. It's all a little too clean to be believable, and the speed with which he opens up in his journal really doesn't ring true. He's supposedly extremely smart and gets great grades, even though he doesn't seem to do much work and tries hard to look like he doesn't care. Nevertheless, he writes about his bad his home life is but I've read about a lot worse. While he is obviously quite poor, he doesn't seem abused (maybe somewhat neglected), nor does he seem very angry. He writes about what goes on in school and at home. Tod is a bully in his high school, and has received an unusual detention: he must stay after school with his guidance counselor and write in a journal every day until the counselor agrees his sentence is complete.
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