Emi's English Blog

Jason Taylor is a guy we can get behind. He’s interesting and his thoughts and antics make us laugh. His shortcomings endeared him to me. I remember reading the start of the chapter Maggot where Jason was being bullied and outcasted for his stammer and exclaiming to Nika, “ I hate Ross Wilcox so much!” I know I wasn’t the only one who wanted Jason to rise up and tell Ross Wilcox to stuff it, winning the respect of the school and the heart of Dawn Madden (whom he would then reject because he realized he deserves respect). That’s why I felt that little rush of justice when Jason found Ross Wilcox’s wallet and then Dawn dumped Ross. The image of Ross’ dumb miserable face in my mind (I pictured him looking like Reese from Malcolm in the Middle) was a sweet one, as I thought Jason is rich now! Ross has fallen! Justice is served! Rah rah rah! It was a perfect blow to Ross—the rich bully lost his allowance, learned he can’t treat people badly, feels like an idiot, etc. We all know t...

Living from boxcar to boxcar? That means no immediate access to showers, food, Netflix, toilets, beds, etc. Honestly, what’s the appeal? I don’t see it. I don’t understand transients in the same way that I don’t understand monks. But there probably is an appeal, because otherwise like why would people do it. I decided to do some research on what makes people pursue a lifestyle that means giving up all those human comforts that we are so attached to. Unfortunately people on quora were really unhelpful, so I’ll just think of some possibilities. 1.       Because society is meaningless Ruth sometimes reminded me of Holden Caulfield. Holden didn’t like the b.s. he sensed in the fronts people put up. He wanted to get away from it all. Ruth could have joined in with the popular dress-making girls, but she didn’t see a point. Both of them were overwhelmed by the pointlessness of a lot of the things people do in an attempt to cohabitate. Ruth wanted to get away fro...