Book Report: Staying Fat For Sarah Byrnes
Which is better? Stay fat to keep a good friend or being able to get skinny and make new friends. That is one of the main questions shown throughout the story. In this book “Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes.” Eric, one of the main characters, is one of the ugliest kids in the school along with a girl named Sarah Byrnes who has scars on her face from when she ‘supposedly’ knocked a pot of boiling water on her face when she was younger but as we find out later throughout the story we learn that it was really her abusive dad, Virgil Byrnes, is the one that pushed her face onto a hot stove. The main reason Eric is friends with her is because they are both ugly so they just became friends with each other mostly because they didn’t have anyone else.
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When Eric was younger his dad left him. Eric talks about in beginning of the story about how his dad left him and his mom when he was very young and how he hasn’t seen or talked to him since then. Eric having no dad to be his role model or to be someone he can look up to has affected his life and made him a troubled person. Eric’s best and only real friend Sarah is in the hospital. Eric visits Sarah in the hospital many times, but she refuses to talk and as we read we figure out that she’s not talking because she knows if she does she will be kicked out of the hospital because they will think she cured. This makes Eric a troubled person because now he doesn’t really have a friend and he is worried for her and at first he doesn’t know why she is talking so this would make him more worried for her. Another reason Eric is a troubled character is because he is being chased by Virgil Byrnes, Sarah’s abusive father, Virgil is chasing Eric because Eric know the truth about what happened to Sarah’s face and wants her to get justice but Virgil wants to keep it quiet so he doesn’t have to go to jail. This makes him troubled because Sarah’s dad wants to hurt him. He can’t do much of anything to stop him so he has to remain fearing for his life. This shows that the author Chris Crutcher has made Eric a troubled
When Eric was younger his dad left him. Eric talks about in beginning of the story about how his dad left him and his mom when he was very young and how he hasn’t seen or talked to him since then. Eric having no dad to be his role model or to be someone he can look up to has affected his life and made him a troubled person. Eric’s best and only real friend Sarah is in the hospital. Eric visits Sarah in the hospital many times, but she refuses to talk and as we read we figure out that she’s not talking because she knows if she does she will be kicked out of the hospital because they will think she cured. This makes Eric a troubled person because now he doesn’t really have a friend and he is worried for her and at first he doesn’t know why she is talking so this would make him more worried for her. Another reason Eric is a troubled character is because he is being chased by Virgil Byrnes, Sarah’s abusive father, Virgil is chasing Eric because Eric know the truth about what happened to Sarah’s face and wants her to get justice but Virgil wants to keep it quiet so he doesn’t have to go to jail. This makes him troubled because Sarah’s dad wants to hurt him. He can’t do much of anything to stop him so he has to remain fearing for his life. This shows that the author Chris Crutcher has made Eric a troubled