Some Boys By Patty Blount Analysis

Patty Blount, a born author, once said “Some boys go too far. Some boys will break your heart, but one can mend it”. The novel,“Some Boys” is a story written by Patty Blount. It manifests the importance of respect and love and the power to stand firm for yourself, as it follows the lives of two young high school teenagers, Grace Collier often nicknamed a slut, whore or liar and Ian Russell known as the healer and the protector. Back then, Grace Collier was the girl that everyone would stare at. With her studded and beaded jewelry, her well-known combat boots and her eyeliner is was kind of hard not to stare. Everything changed when she was sexually assaulted by the captain of the lacrosse team, Zac McMahon. Raped while she was unconscious, …show more content…
While Ian is at his locker getting his stuff for his next class, he sees Zac walk up to Grace and starts calling her names. “ I collect my pile of locker crap and start walking. I hate that he keeps calling Grace a collie. But I keep quiet”. Ian is in love with Grace and Grace loves him too, but neither of them is willing to tell each other. Zac has been calling Grace names recently, and it bugs Ian because he loves her and wants her to feel safe at school, but we know that cannot happen unless everyone moves on from the topic. The school lockers symbolize this love as it would not be possible to love her if he could not see her at school daily. At the beginning of the book, these lockers are nothing as you just put your school supplies and books in them, but as the book progresses, they foreshadow into a future with Ian and Grace. Indeed at first, we do not see much of a connection between Grace and Ian, but when they are forced to spend a week together to do something at school, we see them growing into more than just friends. Ian then gets in trouble and gets punished to clean out the school lockers with Grace. The principal says, “Tell you what I'll do. Next week is spring break, and since you're not going to be playing lacrosse with your team, perhaps you’ll consider donating that week to cleaning lockers on the second floor? Cutbacks you know” (Blount 26) Ian and Grace had both gotten punished that week by their school principal and will be doing the same job. If Ian had not gotten punished he would not be able to grow closer to Grace as he would be playing lacrosse instead. As they clean out the lockers, they grow closer to each other. Grace tells Ian everything that Zac has done, and it is then clear that he is there to support her and help her to get through all the problems she has faced. This then resembles