The novel Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher is the narration of an everlasting friendship with copious kinks. The author incorporates an abundant amount of peculiarly troublesome situations for a few high school students to deal with. Bountiful obstacles arise when character Sarah, ceases to talk for extensive spans of time. Because of self image, being outcasts, and home affairs Eric and Sarah’s friendship indicates how struggle constitutes growth.
One of the best friends, Eric first struggles is with self image, and popularity status. They struggle with this originating in elementary school, and all the way through high school. “ Looks alone would be enough to keep most guys with my particular body design as far away from water as the Wicked Witch of the West,but swimming is a thinking man’s sport and Ms. Lemry is swimming is a thinking man’s coach” (Crutcher 4). This shows that Eric used his struggle of self image to produce an immense swimmer and not care about what’s on the outside. However Eric also learns that he can jurisdic this figure but chooses to stay fat because it's the only accustomed circumstance left in his life. Eric is not not the only character who has …show more content…
Sarah happens to have burns that encompasses the majority of her body. When people deal with trauma, not only do they experience the mental factor , they are also left with a consistent reminder of the day when her life ultimately changed for the worse. “ ‘Hey, Scarface!’ Sarah Byrnes didn't answer and we kept rolling along” (Crutcher 61). This shows that even through middle school and elementary school, Sarah was constantly reminded that she was different. This can be difficult to keep in sight, “ ‘Yeah, I’m sure. Night she tol’ me she was fixin’ to kill herself’” (Crutcher 115). Even though, this partnership dealt with problems at school, they also had problems at
One of the best friends, Eric first struggles is with self image, and popularity status. They struggle with this originating in elementary school, and all the way through high school. “ Looks alone would be enough to keep most guys with my particular body design as far away from water as the Wicked Witch of the West,but swimming is a thinking man’s sport and Ms. Lemry is swimming is a thinking man’s coach” (Crutcher 4). This shows that Eric used his struggle of self image to produce an immense swimmer and not care about what’s on the outside. However Eric also learns that he can jurisdic this figure but chooses to stay fat because it's the only accustomed circumstance left in his life. Eric is not not the only character who has …show more content…
Sarah happens to have burns that encompasses the majority of her body. When people deal with trauma, not only do they experience the mental factor , they are also left with a consistent reminder of the day when her life ultimately changed for the worse. “ ‘Hey, Scarface!’ Sarah Byrnes didn't answer and we kept rolling along” (Crutcher 61). This shows that even through middle school and elementary school, Sarah was constantly reminded that she was different. This can be difficult to keep in sight, “ ‘Yeah, I’m sure. Night she tol’ me she was fixin’ to kill herself’” (Crutcher 115). Even though, this partnership dealt with problems at school, they also had problems at