Todd Strasser is a famous American author who wrote a
lot of famous books for young adults like the wave, which is very famous,
especially in Germany. He is also known by the name Morton Rhue and T.S.Rue.
His topics for his novels/books are always controversial topics like bullying
at school, Nazism and school shootings.
The book I’m writing a recommendation about is called
“Give a boy a gun” by this famous author Todd Strasser, which tells a story
about two teenagers, one called Brendan and the other one called Gary. They are
getting bullied a lot in school and about two years later, they had enough of
all the bullying and planned a school massacre where they intended to take
revenge on those people, who had made their life not worth living. They were
seeking for revenge and they wanted to take their own life as well after they
had taken their revenge on them. I will not spoil the ending or go any further
into detail because there are a lot of details which would spoil or would take
away the atmosphere, but this book is really emotional and it really has a deep
message in it. At some points it will make you think about this topic or it will sound shocking to you and you really start to
feel sympathetic for the characters. A really interesting thing about this book
is the writing-style. It consists of small statements from people, friends,
families and teachers, who are connected to the main characters, but it still
has its order. There are also little quotes, facts, statistics and information
about guns and school massacres, which were really interesting to read. But the
greatness in this book lies in the ability to express feelings and thoughts
about the characters . You get to know
how bullied people feel and even how the people who bully others feel
and you get to know the reasons why the do it or why people would start a
school massacre. I did not find the book very difficult to read. There were not
any difficult words, which you had to google or to look up in a dictionary and it only has 200 pages . In my opinion
this book is a must read for everyone who is interested in psychological books with an interesting writing style. Even I had
a lot of fun reading this book even though I do not read books that often
because it makes you feel sympathetic for the characters and you really want to
know their reason for doing such kind of thing. It also makes you think about this topic a lot and because
of that this story will stick to your mind .
I think everyone has experienced some kind of bullying
in their life whether it is being bullied or bully others. That is why people
with that experience, who read this book , can somehow relate to it. What you
gain after reading this book is the ability to respect other people much more
and it will change your way of treating other people.
I highly recommend this book to anyone, who is at
least 16 years old because of the use of swear words and the violence and to
those who like topics about a topic which is still discussed a lot, nowadays.
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