We All Fall Down Book Report

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We All Fall Down is about a 9th grade student named Will Fuller. Will is a typical American teenager. He’s an average student who has set his hopes of starting a band with his friends. He’s got a crush on a girl in his class, and doesn’t see much of his dad, a CEO who spends more time at work than at home. Personally after reading halfway through this novel, I feel that Will and I are connected very closely and he reminds me of myself a few years ago. Early in the novel, Will tries to stay under the radar in school, but his ability to learn and speak his mind caused him to stand out rather than fit in. This relates to me because when I transferred schools last year, I wanted to stay low key and under the radar just like Will, but my strengths academically …show more content…

This again forced me to relate myself to Will because my dad is a superintendant at his job, and whenever he is not home, he’s on call and will have to be on the phone 20 hours a day to sort everything out, just as if he is at work. Even though I know my father has an important role at work I wish that we were closer and I could spend more time with him, just like Will and his father. Throughout this first half of the novel, Will is easily relatable to me, which makes it super easy for me to like him. We live similar lives at school and at home, we follow the same characteristics, and even enjoy the same things. At school Will is an average student who enjoys maths, sciences, and speaking his mind, while at home he stays segregated to himself and follows similar routines to me by helping out our mothers due to the fact that our fathers are never home. Will is a very relaxed teenager who seems to have no cares in the world, and would rather stick to himself rather than do something that he is not interested

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