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Summary:

In the opening of the story Youth In Revolt by CD Payne the author quickly introduces the reader to Nick Twisp. Nick is the main character of the story. Right away we are let known by nick that he greatly despises his last name "Twisp". Nick goes on to inform us that he has a HUGE obsession with sex (even though he has never done "IT" before). Nicks parents are divorced and he currently lives with his mother. Just like most children of divorced parents he is subjected to spending time with his miserly father who constantly complains about paying child support. Currently nicks mom is dating a man named jerry who nick despises also. Jerry is a cheap con man who sells broken cars to people silly enough to buy them. Jerry sells a car to four sailors that think they bought a nice Chevy , which is actually a Chevy with a banana in the engine(how ironic). The sailors later come to nicks house looking for jerry nut he is not home. Instead Nick answers the door and the sailors tell Nick to tell Jerry that he will pay up or die. As a result the family goes on a "vacation" to Clear Lake,California. This vacation includes living in a trailer park, showering with complete strangers, trailer parks,1st love , and did I mention trailer parks?

Quote:

"pouring his coffee mom said, "isn't it nice of Jerry to drop by so early" The woman takes me for a complete idiot"

Reaction:

I chose this quote for a lot of reasons, but the most important is that it relates to just about everybody. What I mean by this is that in the story Nick clearly knows that Jerry stayed the night and did not stay just to sleep. Thinking that Nick did not know what they were doing or even the fact that Jerry stayed the night , Nicks mom makes it seem like nick is a kid therefore he does not know anything about "grown up" business when he actually does. We have all experienced this before I am sure of this. I wonder why parents think that we teenagers have no idea what goes on with our parents just because we are younger.