Have you ever been interested in experiencing a tale of romance, devotion, betrayal, anguish, and perseverance? The tale I am referring to is Rats Saw God. This story revolves around a boy in high school who had walked down a wrong path in life which consisted of becoming a stoner and receiving atrocious grades. The boy’s name was Steve York and due to his change towards the wrong path, there was a high possibility that he would not be able to graduate. However, his principal had noticed that in the past that he was quite intelligent and offered him a deal. This deal involved Steve writing a one-hundred-page paper; in exchange for this paper Steve would be able to graduate. Throughout this story, it speaks of Steve’s past and some of the present
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Although the writing style is eccentric, it is still amusing and quite unique. The author’s writing style used tons of similes and metaphors which I am quite ecstatic towards. One example the author states is, “I considered tossing out “I’ve got tomorrow night off and nothing to do,” like a bucketful of fish innards on a shark safari”(Thomas 76). The author is stating that Steve was planning to throw that idea in a similar fashion to throwing a bucketful of fish innards on a shark safari. The author also incorporated flashbacks into the novel in a unique way that seemed as though there was two stories. In this story the flashbacks range from freshman to senior year. The author speaks of his freshman year, “My freshman year came and went, as freshman years tend to do, like a nightmare whose chief horror was endless, brain-rotting boredom rather than the expected Blackboard Jungle scenes in which brutal, leather-jacketed seniors would smash me against my locker and terrorize me”(Thomas 12). The author also wrote, “But I couldn’t finish. He had to pick up the Zapruder diploma, the last one on the table”(Thomas 190). These quotes explain his freshman year and how it wasn’t exactly similar to what people thought it was going to be and Steve graduating. The high schooler point of view is a strength due to the fact that I am also a high schooler and can relate to Steve in some ways. For example, when I was a freshman, I also wondered if the seniors would pick on us, but instead nothing
Although the writing style is eccentric, it is still amusing and quite unique. The author’s writing style used tons of similes and metaphors which I am quite ecstatic towards. One example the author states is, “I considered tossing out “I’ve got tomorrow night off and nothing to do,” like a bucketful of fish innards on a shark safari”(Thomas 76). The author is stating that Steve was planning to throw that idea in a similar fashion to throwing a bucketful of fish innards on a shark safari. The author also incorporated flashbacks into the novel in a unique way that seemed as though there was two stories. In this story the flashbacks range from freshman to senior year. The author speaks of his freshman year, “My freshman year came and went, as freshman years tend to do, like a nightmare whose chief horror was endless, brain-rotting boredom rather than the expected Blackboard Jungle scenes in which brutal, leather-jacketed seniors would smash me against my locker and terrorize me”(Thomas 12). The author also wrote, “But I couldn’t finish. He had to pick up the Zapruder diploma, the last one on the table”(Thomas 190). These quotes explain his freshman year and how it wasn’t exactly similar to what people thought it was going to be and Steve graduating. The high schooler point of view is a strength due to the fact that I am also a high schooler and can relate to Steve in some ways. For example, when I was a freshman, I also wondered if the seniors would pick on us, but instead nothing