Slam 2nd Post (51-100)

Summary
Lately Sam’s mother, Annie notices that he spends a lot of time with Alicia so she decides to spend time with him and she does not allow him to see Alicia but he insist. Turns out that mother and son have nothing in common. His mother meets a new guy named Mark who was her former co-worker. Normally a child would confront his/her parent about sex, but every time Annie tries to talk to him so that he does not make the same mistake she did, he refuses. Sam does not think that his mother having him in high school was bad because she already accomplished what she had in mind when she was a teenager.
Alicia leaves her comfortable Zone by going to Sam’s house. There they finally had sexually intercourse. Sam wears the condom half way then takes it off before they -finish. He concludes that he does not feel amazed but upset and shocked. Alicia asked Sam if he was okay and this is a foreshadowing because Sam said that Alicia never asked normally, so she asking meant something bad was going to happen. Alicia asked Annie how life was when she had Sam at an early age. Sam does not feel attracted to Alicia anymore. He goes back to skateboarding. There is a separation of class between Alicia’s parent and Sam. Her parents are professors in college which means they speak better English. They ask Sam about plans for college. “You are a bad person you do not know how to read, write and study” (Hornby 69). But Sam’s father thinks it’s a waste of time.
Life begins to change after Sam’s 16th birthday. Alicia calls him and tells that she is 3 weeks late on her period. Sam stops taking advice from tony Hawk because he feels that Tony does not know real life situation for normal people who are not rich. “I have been treating him like a god but he wasn’t a god. He was nothing, jut a skater” (Hornby 89). Alicia obviously gets pregnant and they named the baby Roof. Sam does not know how it happened. He stated that it felt like he missed an entire year and does not know what is going on.

Quote
“You are a bad person you do not know how to read, write and study. As far as other people like my father... you are a bad person if you do" (Hornby 69).

Reaction.
Sam did the samething that his mother did which was having a baby when she was not prepard. The qoute is very important because it shows that there is a seperation of class for thoes who want to acheive something in life and Alicia'a parent take education very serious unlike Sam's father. The quote also shows that Sam in not clear on what hw wants to do with his life.