Monday, December 24, 2012

Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie

   In the book Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie, by Jordan Sonnenblick, is about a boy named Steven. Steven is in 8th grade and he love to play the drums. Steven takes you out of this world with his middle school challenges and the fact that his little brother has leukemia cancer. In the end we see that Steven has made personal sacrifices.
   Shaving his hair is on of the personal sacrifices Steve makes. he shaves his hair because he feels that Jeffery won't be alone. this show a lot of maturity and that he starts to care more about his brother and that he is become less self-centered. he is beginning to put his feet in others shoes.
   Another one of his sacrifices that he makes is kicking Renee Albert of of his house because she was sick. this show a lot of maturity he was thinking of someone else but himself.
   One of the challenges I thought was very personal was trying to give up his drumming lesson because his parents had to play bills, Jeffery's hospital bills. Steven truly love drumming and this shows a lot of concern for his parents not himself.
   Steven shows a lot of maturity throughout the book. He was dealing with nightmare of Jeffery's cancer and the struggle of a everyday life 8th grader. Even though WE don't deal with this kind of situation WE have other things to deal with. Sometimes things don't go our way but we HAVE to deal with it. Before you get upset about something think about it for a second or two because there are people who have it worse than you not getting something.

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