Bad Boy

So far I am sort enjoying the book Bad Boy, I like the style of writing from a past tense as if he is story telling. It makes me feel as if something big is going to happen later in the book versus when books are told in the present tense you already know something is going to happen. But now I have the background behind it instead of trying to piece together the puzzles myself. I like reading it but it doesn't excite me very much and is a little boring. And to be honest I cannot really answer yet what position this text places young adults, i probably won't be able to until after I finish reading the whole thing. I do not really resonate with the story either because culturally the narrator and I are very different. This difference can very much exclude people who not come from this background making the story hard to relate too. One thing that I did notice while reading was the parallels to the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian. Just like the main character in that book, they were both very violent. That may be just a young male thing, who knows. But I immediately made the connection when he threw his book at his teacher and their rational or reasoning behind it was the exact same, they didn't mean to actually hit their teacher. And they both had teachers who were concerned that they were going to fall into the traps of the negativity of their environments. Both the boys deal with their sister leaving and death in their family. They also both had "handicaps", the big head, and then the speech impediment. They also both have two parents who really care about them and do everything they can to give their boys a good life.These stories are exactly the same just told from two different cultures. I am going to wait on giving this book a grade because I do not feel like I am far enough along to give it a grade that I could support.