Other’s Opinions Boys Don’t Knit:(In Public) by T.S Easton. Ben Fletcher gets in trouble with the law, and as a consequence must take up knitting. But he wants to keep it a secret from his friends, sports fanatic father, and crush, Megan because he feels like they won’t accept him. The theme of Boys Don’t Knit is, what other people think of you shouldn’t matter. Moreover, The novel starts off with Ben Fletcher already being on probation, for what, the reader doesn't know yet. His friends, Gex, Joz, and Freddie are the ones who got him into trouble, they seem to be a bad influence, but friends will be friends. Ben has to write a journal for his probation, the journal has multiple prompts and an outline. One of the prompts is his relationship
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While there he meets Joe, now Miss Swallows ex, who want Ben to help him get Miss Swallow back, which he agrees to. His father finds out he knits, and is mad that Ben lied to him, his dad leaves the house for a couple days. The principle finds out about his account on a buy and sell website, where Ben sells his knitting, and offers him a studentrenuership (student entrepreneurship). Joe asked him about how he should et Miss Swallow back and Ben gives her a sweater he knit as a gift from Joe. Since he might be accepted for the studentreprenuership, it is announced to the school, as well as the fact thats he is a knitter. Ben finally goes to the AUKKC-JC,Junior Competition, and Jeanette is back and now apparently from another city. This time they are knitting a stranded color work cozy, which Ben thinks he is terrible at. During the knitting period, a bully from his school, Manning, shows up with his little “gang” and gets into a fight with Ben’s friends Gex, Freddie, and Joz, Mrs. Frensham joins in as well to chase them away. After the fight, everything resumed as it was, but Ben didn't finish the cozy. There is still one more activity, and Ben aces that by making a sweater of his own creation called the Hoopie. Ben doesn’t get first place, Jeanette does, but soon after she is disqualified for entering two competitions, so by default Ben gets first place. Ben also starts dating Megan and is accepted …show more content…
Some details from the story are, “I suppose he’s alright, my dad, except he just talks about nothing but soccer and Top Gear...I may have mentioned before, but I don’t really like soccer. Or cars. Or the Second World War”(Easton 22). Even though Ben doesn’t like all of the stuff his dad does, he pretends he does because he feels like his dad won’t like him if he admits that he isn’t interested in soccer, cars, or the Second World War. In another part of the book, Ben talks about how he thinks Megan, his crush, dislikes him after she found out that he knits. It seems it’s really important to Ben what other people think about him. What someone else thinks about Ben shouldn’t matter, and later in the book, he even admits that he knits, granted it was after a faculty member outed it to the whole school during an
While there he meets Joe, now Miss Swallows ex, who want Ben to help him get Miss Swallow back, which he agrees to. His father finds out he knits, and is mad that Ben lied to him, his dad leaves the house for a couple days. The principle finds out about his account on a buy and sell website, where Ben sells his knitting, and offers him a studentrenuership (student entrepreneurship). Joe asked him about how he should et Miss Swallow back and Ben gives her a sweater he knit as a gift from Joe. Since he might be accepted for the studentreprenuership, it is announced to the school, as well as the fact thats he is a knitter. Ben finally goes to the AUKKC-JC,Junior Competition, and Jeanette is back and now apparently from another city. This time they are knitting a stranded color work cozy, which Ben thinks he is terrible at. During the knitting period, a bully from his school, Manning, shows up with his little “gang” and gets into a fight with Ben’s friends Gex, Freddie, and Joz, Mrs. Frensham joins in as well to chase them away. After the fight, everything resumed as it was, but Ben didn't finish the cozy. There is still one more activity, and Ben aces that by making a sweater of his own creation called the Hoopie. Ben doesn’t get first place, Jeanette does, but soon after she is disqualified for entering two competitions, so by default Ben gets first place. Ben also starts dating Megan and is accepted …show more content…
Some details from the story are, “I suppose he’s alright, my dad, except he just talks about nothing but soccer and Top Gear...I may have mentioned before, but I don’t really like soccer. Or cars. Or the Second World War”(Easton 22). Even though Ben doesn’t like all of the stuff his dad does, he pretends he does because he feels like his dad won’t like him if he admits that he isn’t interested in soccer, cars, or the Second World War. In another part of the book, Ben talks about how he thinks Megan, his crush, dislikes him after she found out that he knits. It seems it’s really important to Ben what other people think about him. What someone else thinks about Ben shouldn’t matter, and later in the book, he even admits that he knits, granted it was after a faculty member outed it to the whole school during an