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About a Boy Summary: Chapter 1 - 11

935 Wörter / ~4½ Seiten sternsternsternstern_0.75stern_0.3 Autorin Heidi F. im Sep. 2012
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About A Boy Zusammenfassung

Universität, Schule

Ernst Reuter Schule Pattensen

Note, Lehrer, Jahr

2010; Note: 2

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About a boy

Chapter 1 – 11 Summary

 

Chapter 1:

Will Freeman is 36 and he never had a job, because he became rich from his father’s Christmas Song. Nevertheless he writes letter of application and he read a lot. His hobbies are cooking, travelling, running and reading. He likes to have lots of girlfriends but his relationships were very short. He hates children, although he goes to a baby party by John and Christine.

Marcus is 12, this Age in it problematic, but even more so when one has just moved to London and now in new school needs, where he has problems. And if you have Fiona as a mother, nothing about pop music or even keeps brand clothes. Marcus is shy, unwell and strange.

 

Chapter 2:

Will meet a girl Angie and starts a conservation. Angie is a single mum with two children. She want go out with Will. Unfortunately, the relationship ends after only six weeks. So, wants to get Will into a single group to know single mums.

Marcus mum Fiona cries very often. Marcus has problems with bullying, because his class doesn’t like him. His only friend is separated from him.

Will goes to the next meeting of SPAT (single parents alone together). He meets Suzie and spent the evening with her. He told her about his son Ned, but Ned isn’t real.

Marcus goes to his dad to Cambridge at the weekend. His mum cries all the time. Suzie is Fiona’s best friend.

 

Chapter 3:

Will wants to go to the SPAT picnic with Suzie. Marcus, Fiona’s son comes to the picnic, too. Will doesn’t want to answer questions about his son Ned. Marcus kills a duck, because he fed it.

Will, Megan (the daughter of Suzie), Suzie and Marcus go to Marcus home after the SPAT picnic. Marcus mum try to kill herself. They call the ambulance. Fiona lives and Marcus stays by Suzie.

 

Chapter 4:

Marcus reads a sad letter about his mum killing herself, in the kitchen. He talks to his mum, because he is angry of his mum killing herself.

Wills wants to help Marcus and Fiona and he will meet them Saturday. On Saturday Marcus wants that Will and Fiona talk to each other. But Fiona isn’t Will’s type of woman. Now, Will helps them with the situation many days.

Marcus comes to Will’s flat and fined out that he hasn’t got a child. He wants to make a couple of his mum and Will.

 

Chapter 5:

Marcus meets Will very often after school and they like each other. He goes to Will because he is sad about his mum. Marcus is often bullying by others, but Will try to help him with the problems. He wants to change Marcus look. He buys

him some new trainers, but they are stolen the next day at school. Fiona finds out about the visits and the imaginary son and forbids Marcus to see Will again. Will shows Fiona Marcus problems and she doesn’t believe.

 

Chapter 6:

Will meets Fiona to discuss about Marcus, because he thinks Marcus need a father figure. Marcus mustn’t go to Will again.

Marcus talks with the head teacher about bullying and his trainers, but she wasn’t helpful. He meets Ellie one of the school’s rebels and a big Kurt Cobain fan. He wells gets on with Zoe the best friend of Ellie and Ellie. They get friends.

 

 

 

Chapter 7:

Marcus invites Will to his house for Christmas.

Will hates Christmas but he goes reluctantly. At first, he has a good time but then Suzie arrives and she gets angry because Will had lied to her about having a son.

Everybody is angry with him.

 

Chapter 8:

Will meets a new girl at a New Years Eve party, her name is Rachel. He falls in love. Will tells her that Marcus is his son; he thinks it is more interesting to her. Rachel also has a twelve year old son called Ali and she invites Will and Marcus to her house to meet him. Marcus agrees to pretend to be Will’s son. Ali doesn’t want that his mum go out with Will and he is angry that Will likes Rachel. Marcus gets problems with Ali but Will explain that and Marcus and Ali become friends.

 

Chapter 9:

Will wants to spend his life with Rachel and he tells her the truth about Marcus. Fortunately Rachel is not angry.

Marcus mum Fiona cries again. Will should speak with her but he doesn’t want.

But he feels bad and he asks Rachel for advice and she talks with Fiona, because Will wants to help Marcus with Fiona.

Chapter 10:

Marcus and Ellie meet his father in Cambridge, because Fiona means that Clive has broken his arm. The day they travel, Ellie hearts that Kurt Cobain kills himself, she is sad and wants to get drink.

Will meets Fiona in a pub for a talk and she cries. On the answer machine is a message of Marcus, who is in trouble. 

Ellie jumps off the train and throws her boot through the window of a music shop that has a big cardboard figure of Kurt Cobain inside.

 

Chapter 11:

A police car took Marcus and Ellie to the police station. Ellie’s mum, Marcus father Clive, Clive’s girlfriend Lindsey, Fiona and Will come to the police station.

Ellie is forced to meet the owner of the shop and she apologises. Marcus speak with his dad a long time and Clive excuses for being a bad father, but Marcus tells him it is not bad. Marcus now knows he has people and he can cope. In short, he has grown up.

Will, meanwhile, realises that Rachel has changed his life completely and for the first time he gets seriously involved with somebody, responsibilities and all.


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