Slam (1-50)

Setting- London, UK
Main characters- - Sam Jones,(Protagonist)
Annie Jones- Sam’s mother
Alicia Burns- Sam’s Girlfriend,she gets Pregnant by Sam
Andrea Burns- Alicia’s Mother. She is counselors
Summary
Sam Jones is gifted in skateboard. Just like To Kill a Mocking Bird, the book is narrated form the main characters point of view. Sam the protagonist lives him London, UK. His mother had him when she was 16 years old and his father does not want anything to do with him when he was a kid so he is being raised by his mother alone. Sam is a troublesome kid. He has a poster of Tony Hawk in his room because he is a role model for him. Sam does not talk to his mother about thing that troubles him but instead he talks to him Tony Haw poster which he calls TH; he gets his answer by using quote from Hawks autobiography.
A thematic element is seen in the beginning of the book; Geneology. Sam meets a girl named Alicia in a party that his mother invited him to. The teenagers at first do not seem to interact, and then Alicia asks him to go on a date with him. Instead of going to the movie as they had planned, they ended up in Alicia’s bedroom and there Alicia tells Sam that she is in love with him and she wants to have sex with him. Sam lets us know that something bad would result in this meeting because he talks about his grandfather, his mom and dad thinking that they would do go in college and make big mother, but then they mess it up. This is Geneology section because Sam does the same mistake his mother did which is to have a baby at a young age. “the story of my family as far as I can tell is the same story over and over again, they starts of thinking they do well in school, then they do something stupid and spend the rest of their lives trying to make up for the mistake” (Hornby 13). It also foreshadowing because the quote is there for a reason which means Sam does the same thing as his mother.This book is a perfect example of Blidungroman because Sam is having a conflict with society by being a misfit and he left his comfort zone which is his house to go to Alicia’s house. Foreshadowing

Quote
“the story of my family as far as I can tell is the same story over and over again, they starts of thinking they do well in school, then they do something stupid and spend the rest of their lives trying to make up for the mistake” (Hornby 13). It's the foundation of the story.

Reaction.
So far it is a goodbook,has moral teaching about being confidence and not giving into peer-pressure which Alicia trys to force him to have sex with him. Sam taking advice from a poster is kind of immature and I don't think that he realzies the situation he would be after he finds out that Alicia is pregnant. The qoute tells the geneology of the Jones family and the decisions that they made when they were young, this includes Sam making the same decision.