This time, I read About a Boy. This book summarized the same movie. The main character is a single man named Will, who is rich because of his father’s huge heritage, handsome, and has never earned money by himself. Hugh Grant played him. A boy named Marcus is a strange 12-year-old elementary school student.
They met at a picnic that was held by an organization named SPAT. This organization is for single parents. Will doesn’t have any kids, but he pretended to be a single father who has a two-year-old kid to go out with a nice single mother. After the picnic, they and a woman named Suzie, who is a friend of Marcus’s mother name Fiona went to Marcus’s house. Fiona tried to kill herself. Will was so surprised, and he wanted to help Marcus. He has never felt like that, but Marcus has some problems which are that he is always bullied by some students, and he also suffers from his mother’s mental problems. Though Marcus is only twelve years old, he lives a very hard life. They were involved in some incidents, but they found their own way to live comfortably.
In the end of this story, Will and Marcus’s character and life changed to good. First, Marcus had suffered from bullying and his mother’s problems, but he found friends named Will and a girl named Ellie, who is fifteen years old and does love a singer. Marcus also became to think more what words are the best in several situation. In addition, his mother was also better than before.
Will wanted an easy life with no responsibilities and didn’t want to relate to a lot of people. However, now Will feels it is good to relate to people even when they are so strange. Will also found a good friend named Marcus, and a good girl friend named Raichel, who has a kid. Will learned about having responsibilities by taking care of Raichel’s kid and Marcus. However, Will is a little sad because Marcus became older and twelve-year-old Marcus doesn’t exist any more. Will sometimes thinks he want twelve-year-old Marcus to list to his stories and advise him.
I think this story is very funny and thoughtful. This story says it is hard to grow up to adulthood and to be mixed up with people who have mental problems. It is important to have something to do with people. I thought a lot about people.
This story was great. I really recommend this book to you and this movie.
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