Butter, By Jade Lange

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Have you ever felt that good love is also bad love? Should popularity choose your decisions? Have you ever felt invisible? Like no one cares? Well in the book Butter by Erin Jade Lange "Butter" is a lonely obese teenager whom ways 423 pounds. Butter is nicknamed after an incident he suffered in which he was bullied and was forced to eat a dirty stick of butter. Butter is so lonely and sick of his life that one night he on the Internet invites everyone to watch him eat himself to death live on New Year's Eve. Once he posts this announcement online on his website ButtersLastMeal.com right then, the next day he is expecting pity and insults; however he instead receives cheering and attention from his classmates. As the inspiration and motivation starts growing as he is the center of attention and he feels more like a part of the school and enjoys it; yet as he experiences this he feels loved like has never felt before. He in fact makes new friends that are fake. Lots of people might say what about his parents love. Well his dad has given up since he was never the person his dad wanted him to be. As for his mom she does show him love, but not the love he wants. She is always trying to encourage him to eat healthy which he doesn't want. He has always felt that everything and everyone lets him down; however food has …show more content…

Friends are the ones who try to help you when your in problems the ones that encourage you to do the right thing. An example of fake friends are Parker and Trent, when they bring Butter to there table so that they are able to know about the menu for the last meal on pg.113-114 " .....Parker said. " That, and we want to know what's on the menu."............."Right. But I don't want to talk about it...y'know, at school." "I got ya." Trent nodded. " Teachers and all

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