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2009-11-23

The world isn't that messed up as I'd thought

Here we are again! :)
I think that the 2nd chapter is the longest and in contend the richest chapter in the whole book. This chapter tells about everything important: From Sam’s social and familiar milieu, over the meeting with Alicia, and finally it tells about both of them having sex with each other for the first time.

The most important passages were when Sam tells about that every single person in his family has been pretty good to bang up their lives. And this is also the reason why Sam’s mother was still very young (16 years old) when she was pregnant with him. But Sam wants to break with this tradition: 

“I wanted to be the first person in the history of our family to get a qualification in something while they were still at school. (…) I’d be the one to break the pattern.”


Therefore Sam’s very motivated at school. In some way he’s not satisfied with his life how it is going on right now (living in a small flat, his mom’s working all the time, etc.), and also with Alice he feels inferior when he says on page 43:

“If she found out that none of [my family] (…) had ever been to college, then she might not have wanted to spend any time with me.”
In his imagination he wants to have a big house with lots of bedrooms and a swimming pool, a pool table and no girlfriend and no parents living there. But the most important thing is that he has a goal, something to work hard for.
The first hint to a “Slam” in Sam’s life with Alicia was the statement when Alicia’s mom asked Sam’s mom for bringing Sam with her to a birthday party. Sam thinks that Alicia’s mom was trying to find a boyfriend for her daughter that she approved of:
“Well that all went wrong, didn’t it?!” (page 16)
In the first moment I thought that the both will have a car accident, when Sam drives drunken and Alicia will be killed. But the fact that they have sex and that the early becoming of pregnancy of Sam’s mom is mentioned a few times, maybe it leads to that Alicia gets also early pregnant.
To sup up, after this chapter I think that Sam is a very rational and decent young person, because of the scene on page 45, when he and Alicia are talking about the wanting condoms before having sex:
“I’d always thought that if I needed anything, I’d know well in advance, because that’s the way I am.”
And I also think that he isn’t that cool as he pretends to be; anyhow an a way he gets pressured by Alicia having sex, although he has doubts, because of the possibility she just wants to pay her ex something back.
“It was like she was saying that we ought to sleep together quickly, before she stopped liking me the next day, so we had to do it that night.” (page 50)
But at least, there’s an inferior-complex.
“At least I was with someone who wanted to have sex with me.” (page 46)
There’s someone who loves him, probably a new feeling for him, so he has to do everything to keep it.
So, Sam is just an ordinary guy with ordinary fears.
I thought about the right soundtrack for the first meeting of Sam and Alicia at the party. On page 22 Sam says indirectly that he likes Green Day… He's a skater so he HAS to like Green Day! :) So, I think this is the song which fits =) :



Greetings,
Victoire*