Essay On Okay For Now

Gary D. Schmidt, the author of Okay for Now, develops Doug Swieteck into a more mature human throughout his book. Doug’s father is not very caring, and his mother does not do much about that, so he grows up living life essentially on his own. Life is hard enough with his family issues, but suddenly, Doug's father forces him to pack all his belongings up and move to a town he not only does not know, but one he does not like. His attitude is nowhere near positive toward his new town, Marysville, so he is uninterested in anything the town has in store for him. He encounters things in Marysville in which he not only has to face, but things which cause him to change entirely. Instantly in Okay for Now, Doug and his family move to Marysville because his Dad acquires a new job. Doug’s feelings towards his new home, his new town, and his father for making him move are clear throughout the whole book. Doug not only …show more content…
. Doug has trouble adjusting to his new town which causes him to give a very negative attitude toward anybody he encounters. Everything word coming out of his mouth is impolite. Being new in town results in Doug also lashing out and not caring about what trouble he gets into at school. In the end, Doug not only does not get in trouble, but he steers away from trouble. He also starts to like his town and the things in it. Doug meets numerous friends, acquires a job as a delivery boy and sought out a new hobby of drawing. When Doug first moves to town, he met a girl who he absolutely found annoying and overjoyed. The girl he is not very fond of ends up to be his best friend at the end up the book. Doug takes great passion in drawing at the end of the book, and in the beginning Doug looks at drawing as if he is ashamed of liking to drawing. For having such a negative mindset when he first moves to Marysville, obtaining the optimistic personality he has in the end stuns most