The Cheat is about what happens when you have the answer to your problems in your hands. Do you go against your morals and do what everyone else is doing? Can friends still be friends when everyone was caught cheating?
These kids are being handed out a test and already thinking that they are going to flunk. Most are nervous or guilty and don’t want to get caught cheating. “ Mr. White gives Katie a squinty face” (7). Sarah starts to think about how “sweet that this boy she barely knew gave her the answers to the midterm test out of the blue” (5). Rob is feeling lucky that he’s not going to struggle on this test this time and that “taking this test is changing my luck” (10). They hear their name on the intercom, and they’re not saying anything. No one wants to say where they got the answers from and get anyone else in more trouble. Rob is regretting everything he did the day before but “It’s too late now. It’s all over” (19). …show more content…
She also wrote this book because she wanted to inform us about not taking the easy way out because that will get you nowhere. The author was trying to show us what really happens to people when they cheat because when you cheat the cheating comes with a consequence. Sometimes the friends you think you have turn out totally different. In the end they all realized they should've just studied and worked harder and that “the value of a true education is not in the grades” (37). . Koss wanted to give us different perspectives from six different kids and how cheating affected
These kids are being handed out a test and already thinking that they are going to flunk. Most are nervous or guilty and don’t want to get caught cheating. “ Mr. White gives Katie a squinty face” (7). Sarah starts to think about how “sweet that this boy she barely knew gave her the answers to the midterm test out of the blue” (5). Rob is feeling lucky that he’s not going to struggle on this test this time and that “taking this test is changing my luck” (10). They hear their name on the intercom, and they’re not saying anything. No one wants to say where they got the answers from and get anyone else in more trouble. Rob is regretting everything he did the day before but “It’s too late now. It’s all over” (19). …show more content…
She also wrote this book because she wanted to inform us about not taking the easy way out because that will get you nowhere. The author was trying to show us what really happens to people when they cheat because when you cheat the cheating comes with a consequence. Sometimes the friends you think you have turn out totally different. In the end they all realized they should've just studied and worked harder and that “the value of a true education is not in the grades” (37). . Koss wanted to give us different perspectives from six different kids and how cheating affected