Running With Scissors Book Report

Running With Scissors In this world, there are people who have almost everything and then there are people whose life falls apart more and more each day. Augusten Burroughs wrote the book named, Running With Scissors, and in this book he explains how his life took a U-turn at the age of 12. He lived a very clean life, with two parents. Until, his parents split up and his mother sent him to live with her psychiatrist, Dr. Finch. Dr. Finch had many other children who lived in a very horrible situation. Augusten explains the changes he had to make in his life to survive this time period. He writes with great detail making it easy to connect this book to everyday life. A connection that really stood out was how similar this book is to, To Kill …show more content…
They both had a hard time getting used to changing into a young adult. In Scout’s story, she had many people helping her grow up. It took some time before she realized that her responsibilities had changed. She often would still act as a child, as she would play pranks on neighbors, or even when she would simply not follow the rules given. This is very similar to Augusten’s story once again. As he was sent to Dr. Finch’s home, he realized that the other children were never given rules to obey. Children of all ages, would have sex, smoke drugs and simply rebel against authority figures. At first Augusten, also made bad life decisions like the rest of the children in the home. His life took many turns as he had gotten to love the Finch’s, even if they were not the best people in the world. The things happening in his life were all over the place, dealing with his mother and her issues and even dealing with his issues. In the book, there were times that he was sure that he was gay and there were times that he was sure that he wasn’t. There were times where he loved his mother and there were times when he hated her. There were times where he would make horrible decisions and there were times that he would make good decisions. It took him a while to get used to the fact that he had to grow up to survive. After some time, he finally did grow up and started to take care of himself, just like Scout