Inexcusable is a young adult novel written by Chris Lynch about a teenager named Keir Sarafian. Throughout the novel Keir has a habit of making mistakes but always finding an excuse to explain why he is not really the one who is at fault. I thought the book was a very interesting read and Lynch writes about many topics that sometimes people don’t feel comfortable. Some of those topics include gender ideology or stereotyping, peer pressure, and sexual assault. There are many times in the book that speaks to the issue of gender ideology. At one point Keir is talking about how the accident between himself and the football player that he injured. He tells us that he is so happy the incident had been officially ruled an accident because that
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One moment is when he is at the end of the year celebrations for football and soccer teams. For the football celebration he went around with the team vandalizing a lot of different public properties like the windows of the library and the Paul Revere and Dawes. During the soccer team’s banquet “someone” tips off the football team, so they come and crash it. The football team makes them go skinny dipping while that is happening Keir is making soccer players take huge drinks of alcohol and holding their heads under water. The next day Keir can’t believe that he did any of this, that it had to be someone else, or that whoever was recording the events recorded it all wrong. He was a good kid, so he wouldn’t do those things. There is another moment when Keir is at Ken the quarterback’s graduation party and he is in a room full of football players and he feels the pressure to do drugs with Ken. I think the atmosphere and being around the rest of the players that were doing drugs was a huge influence in Keir’s decision to do a line of coke. Also, I think Keir felt pressure to fit in with the football team when they were vandalizing things and bullying soccer players. I know someone from my hometown, who I used to be good friends with, that was affected in a similar way by peer pressure. He was a sophomore in high school at the time and was hanging out with some older kids that weren’t known to make the best
One moment is when he is at the end of the year celebrations for football and soccer teams. For the football celebration he went around with the team vandalizing a lot of different public properties like the windows of the library and the Paul Revere and Dawes. During the soccer team’s banquet “someone” tips off the football team, so they come and crash it. The football team makes them go skinny dipping while that is happening Keir is making soccer players take huge drinks of alcohol and holding their heads under water. The next day Keir can’t believe that he did any of this, that it had to be someone else, or that whoever was recording the events recorded it all wrong. He was a good kid, so he wouldn’t do those things. There is another moment when Keir is at Ken the quarterback’s graduation party and he is in a room full of football players and he feels the pressure to do drugs with Ken. I think the atmosphere and being around the rest of the players that were doing drugs was a huge influence in Keir’s decision to do a line of coke. Also, I think Keir felt pressure to fit in with the football team when they were vandalizing things and bullying soccer players. I know someone from my hometown, who I used to be good friends with, that was affected in a similar way by peer pressure. He was a sophomore in high school at the time and was hanging out with some older kids that weren’t known to make the best