Amir Abrams
Auteur de The Girl of His Dreams
Œuvres de Amir Abrams
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- Œuvres
- 5
- Membres
- 55
- Popularité
- #295,340
- Évaluation
- 3.2
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 19
Wow. This is just stunningly bad. I mean, it is nice that Antonio and Miesha figure out that there can be more to a relationship than sex, but these kids are just totally messed up! Booze, drugs, sex, fighting, bullying, sex, parents who are terrible role models, teachers--even for advanced English--who speak as poorly as the students, sex, lack of responsibility, lack of honesty, etc., etc. While I am certain there are some teens who live like this, I see absolutely no reason to glorify this lifestyle.
It pains me to think that these two supposedly represent the high achievers at their school. Antonio seriously thinks he is going to earn a four-year, full-ride *academic* college scholarship with his B+ grade point average. Miesha thinks fashion schools are going to compete for her even though she is doing absolutely nothing to build a portfolio for admission. The other young people in the book are of equal or even lesser ability and quality. Attitude alone won't cut it but that is, by and large, all these kids have. In reality they are shallow, navel-gazing youths with only slightly-above-average ability and huge entitlement complexes.
The parents are often out of the picture leaving the kids unattended for days at a time. Drinking is openly allowed and even some drug use. Buckets of money get handed out so the kids don't even have to think about finding jobs. Cars (and presumably gasoline) are also provided. The fathers sleep with anything that moves and the mothers hate the fathers but can't quite get away from them. The teachers are equally appalling. One openly bullies Miesha throughout the year, academic rigor and honesty is questionable, and one teacher repeatedly commits statutory rape (I checked New Jersey law) against several students. That teacher gets fired, but the whole thing is treated like it is just more sex and not that big a deal. It is absolutely ABOMINABLE to gloss over rape in that way! For that reason alone, I despise this book.
The repeated in-text plugs for Ni-Ni Simone's books are poor form, but a comparatively minor annoyance.
There is not a single character in this book, youth or adult, who I would want my child to emulate. If I absolutely *had* to recommend this book to anyone, I would give it to an education major who is wearing rose-colored glasses so they might see what kind of students they could end up teaching.… (plus d'informations)