After the opening chapters

"So things were ticking along quite nicely..."

To be honest , I feel a little awkward after reading the opening chapters. Eventhough the book is easy to read and the main character is almost the same age, he seems pretty weird. The story is told by Sam himself. I was right into his confusing thoughts about his life .He introduces himself as a boy who loves skating,but he often changes the dates and at first I didn't really know where the story was heading to. He also got an odd habit . He's talking to a poster of Tony Hawk(T.H.),who's in Sam's opinion the most famous skater in the world.Sam read his autobiography over 40 times and now Tony's talking to him . But only with the words which were used in his book, so the things Tony's saying aren't much helpful. But he's still very important because I think he's kind of a male role model. A replacement for his father who's not living with him. He has no male person he can look up to in his life, so he just starts to create his own role model, that gives him advices and helps him through tricky situations. Everything cleared up a little in the second chapter . Sam talks about his parents, about the guys he's skating with, then he starts talking about the evening he met Aliciaand how they started dating the next day , but not only dating...In the next chapter everything's about them. How they love each other and that they try to spend every second together .I think that every teenager ,including myself, can relate to the second and third chapter.It's about the first time in love, having a relationship, growing up and all the problems that comes with it.

Tony Hawk

Poem

Good morning, on July 7

Though still in bed, my thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved, now and then joyfully, then sadly, waiting to learn whether or not fate will hear us - I can live only wholly with you or not at all - Yes, I am resolved to wander so long away from you until I can fly to your arms and say that I am really at home with you, and can send my soul enwrapped in you into the land of spirits - Yes, unhappily it must be so - You will be the more contained since you know my fidelity to you. No one else can ever possess my heart - never - never - Oh God, why must one be parted from one whom one so loves. And yet my life in V is now a wretched life - Your love makes me at once the happiest and the unhappiest of men - At my age I need a steady, quiet life - can that be so in our connection? My angel, I have just been told that the mail coach goes every day - therefore I must close at once so that you may receive the letter at once - Be calm, only by a calm consideration of our existence can we achieve our purpose to live together - Be calm - love me - today - yesterday - what tearful longings for you - you - you - my life - my all - farewell. Oh continue to love me - never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved.

Ever thine
ever mine
ever ours
(Ludwig Beethoven, Beethoven's Immortal Beloved Letters,