Reading log - About A Boy by nick hornby
About a boy von Nick Hornby
Ausführliche tabellarische Zusammenfassung
Je Kapitel werden die W-Fragen beantwortet: who, where, when, what, commentsLondon, Holloway
summer holiday
1993
- Marcus is interested in his mum’s life
- Marcus doesn’t want to
watch soaps because
of his mum
John,
Christine
2. at John’s
house
Will is reading a magazine and is doing a questionnaire
Will meets John and Christine, they talk about their children and Will’s life
- He likes his own life (can’t believe why people want to have children)
- He isn´t grwon up really (questionnaire)
- Will isn’t interesting in talking about John’s children, doesn’t want to understand John’s problems
Marcus’ class
2. in school
Marcus is bullied at school, sings in class
- He’s different than other kids
- He doesn´t feel good in school
Angie
2. a café
3. restaurant
- Angie has got children
- Will lies and says that he likes children
- Angie splits up with Will
- Will is happy
- Will is thinking of being a single-father
Fiona,
Nicky,
Mark,
Other pupils
In school
- At school Marcus has got two friends Nicky and Mark.
- they are members of the computer club,
- friendship only for a short time, they don’t want to get bullied too, and say that they don’t want to be in contact with Marcus
- Marcus is bullied again because of singing in class.
Women of SPAT,
- Will lies a lot to make the women believe that he has got a son
- Will meets Suzie
- He tries to play a nice and poor single-father to get in contact with single-women
- he has got problems at school and at home
- Fiona is always crying, Marcus tells her to find someone else who cares for him
- Marcus is very confused and unhappy
- Will talks to Marcus about what his hobby´s
- Will behaves teenager reads magazines
- Will’s dad wrote a popular song; that’s because Will doesn’t have to work(Santa´s super Sleigh)
- Will thinks that Marcus is a strange/weird kid à M. acts adult-like
- Will speaks like a teenager (to Marcus)
At home
- Will defends him
- As they come home they see Fiona who took lots of pills
- Fiona comes into a hospital
- Marcus first hated Will, but now begins to like him
- Fiona tries to kill herself à lots of problems
- Will changes his opinion towards Marcus and the other way round
woman someboy official
- Will gets thoughtful, thinks about the other’s problems and not only about himself
- Fiona feels better
- They watch a comedy-film, but some with the topic suicide, which Marcus didn’t know
- Marcus doesn’t want to watch a film about suicide
- She wants to watch the film anyway
- Fiona behaves like if she
doesn´t commit suicide
Fiona,
Marcus,
Suzie
- Will is wondering how he could make Marcus happy
- Marcus phones Will to ask him, if he wants to go out with him and his mum
- In the afternoon Will buys a car-seat and tries to make it look like used
- Will still tries to make his lies look real
- Will thinks about the thoughts of other people, wants to make them happy
Marcus,
Fiona
Twenty-Eight (restaurant)
- Marcus thinks that they would be a nice couple but Will isn’t interested in Fiona
- Marcus followed Will home
- Marcus has a presentiment that Will hasn’t god a son
- Will doesn’t like Fiona, only wants to make Marcus and Fiona happy
Fiona,
Marcus,
- Fiona and Marcus invited Will,
- he doesn’t like the singing of Fiona and Marcus, he doesn’t say anything
- Marcus suprises Will with a visit
- he wants to take Will to task for his lies (he knows that Will hasn’t got a son)
- Marcus is a clever boy
Marcus,
Fiona
- Marcus starts visiting Will every day after school,
- Marcus lies that he likes the show to stay at Will’s house
- Will and Marcus talk about Marcus and his problems at school and at home
- Will gets to know that Marcus is bullied at school
- Will thinks about how to help Marcus
- he is more and more interested in making Marcus happy
Marcus
- Will rescued Marcus from two boys
- Will wants to know if Marcus is bullied at school
- Will buys new shoes for Marcus
- Marcus’ new shoes are stolen by pupils
- Marcus sounds like a hundred-year-old man for Will
- Will makes Marcus happy although he isn´t intrested in his mum
Fiona,
Will
at Will’s home,
in the car
- He said that he spends every day in Will’s flat
- They drive to Will
- Will and Fiona argued at each other
- Fiona doesn’t understand Marcus’ problems
- Marcus said he needs a father
- He wants to help him
- Fiona knows that Will is a liar and she wants Marcus to stop visiting him
- Marcus know how he can hurt his mum ( to say that he needs a father) and he does it (the first time)
Fiona
somewhere for a drink
the next day
- his father hates it´s
because of the interviewer
- Fiona calls Will
- they meet each other to talk about Marcus
- They have a conflict
- Fiona needs help for Marcus from Will
- Will doesn’t want to help
- Will realizes that in some aspects he understands Marcus better then Fiona does
Fiona,
Ellie,
Mrs. Morrison
at school
morning
- Marcus waits in front of the office to talk to Mrs. Morrison
- He talks to Ellie
- she makes fun of him
- Marcus has a conflict with Mrs. Morrison, he shouted at her and left school
- He is a truant and a little bit proud of it
- He thinks his whole life changed from this morning on
- Fiona doesn’t like Will, but Marcus does
Marcus
at Will’s home
4:15 p.m.
- Marcus visits Will
- Will tells Marcus about Nirvana
- He wants to help him and tells him everything he wants to know
- They talk about Marcus’ problems
Ellie,
Zoe,
Will
at Will’s home
at school
- Marcus tells Will the story about Ellie+Zoe
- Zoe and Ellie say in front of all pupils that Marcus is their friend
- Marcus feels stronger and he thinks that the girl’s like him
- Will tries to explain what the girl’s might think of him
- Marcus feels he someone of them Zoe, Ellie and Marcus
- He feels good at school and the first time he talks to other pupils
Marcus,
Lindsay,
Lindsay’s mum,
Fiona,
Clive
at Marcus home
- After a discussion Will agree
- Christmas evening (eating and presents)
- Will thinks that Fiona and Marcus are a pair of losers
- Will thinks Marcus gets stupid presents and he is wondering how understandinf Marcus can be
- Will sees that Marcus is a good kid
Marcus,
Lindsay
Lindsay’s mum,
Fiona,
Clive
Suzie
- Clive rolled a joint
- This is how the conflict between Fiona, Lindsay and Clives start
- conflict between Suzie and Will
Rachel,
Fiona,
- Rachel believes that Marcus is Will’s son (Will doesn’t want to tell her the truth)
- At midnight they kiss each other
- He was surprised of the experience that he fall in love
- Will realizes that Marcus is the most interesting thing in his life
Ellie,
Ellie’s mum
- They talk about the year 1993
- Ellie gets Marcus a Coke with Sherry
- They talk about Fiona and about the fact that she wanted to kill herself
- Ellies mother is snogging with sb.
- It is the first time that Marcus drinks alcohol
- Fiona gets drunk
- Marcus asks Ellie if she wants to dance
Will,
Rachel,
Ellie
at Rachel’s home
- Will doesn’t think that this is his fault
- Marcus wants Ellie to be his girlfriend
- Marcus tells Will about his favorite food, his birthday and something else (Marcus thinks he needs it for his ‘lie’)
- He wanted Rachel to be his wife
- Marcus falls in love with Ellie
- He wants to be with her all the time and tell her everything
- Rachel forgets Marcus name,
Will thinks she doesn’t think the
whole time about him (Will)
so falling in love is rubbish (for Will)
Ali,
Will,
Rachel,
Ellie,
Zoe
at the bus station
at Rachel’s house
at school
After school on Monday
- Will catches him and takes him back to Rachel
- Ali cries and says sorry for everything he said
- Ellie helps Marcus with the owner of the newsagent and with Lee Hartley and his friends
- Marcus is treated badly by Ali
- nobody bullies Marcus at
school because of Ellie
- Marcus loves Ellie’s style, her beauty and her ability to beat people up
- Will thinks that Marcus and Ellie don’t fit together as girlfriend and boyfriend
- Will thinks about his lie to Rachel and decides to correct it
- As Will tells Rachel, that Marcus isn’t his son she doesn’t get angry and is only interested in the relationship between Marcus and Will
- Will thinks again about his life
- he fells in love with Rachel
- Will learned that lying is not the right base for a long relationship
- Will thinks about spending the rest of his life with Rachel
At Will’s home
In school
- Fiona starts crying again all the time
- Marcus asks Will for help but in Will’s opinion he isn’t able to help
- Marcus gets angry, he makes their relationship uncertain,
- they discuss about their relationship
- Marcus is disappointed that also Ellie can’t help him but is happy that she cares about him
- Will thinks that he hasn’t got any meaning for Fiona
- Will thinks about "the point” why live should go on, but can’t find a definition
- After a long conversation with Rachel Will knows what is meant with "the point” à he likes Rachel’s positivity
- Will has sex with Rachel and is very happy that its happened, but again thinks about if it’s the most important thing of their relationship
- It is a new experience for Will not to have sex for a few weeks although he likes Rachel so much
- Will is sure that he want to live the rest of his life together with Rachel
- the first time in his life he feels real love
Ellie,
Fiona
At the tube station
- Fiona tells Marcus that he has to visit his dad but Marcus doesn’t want to
- As Ellie tells him that she would come with him, Marcus gets very happy because he hopes to become a more closely relationship with Ellie
- Marcus and Ellie are going to visit Marcus’ dad
- Marcus wants that Ellie trust him
- Marcus doesn’t want to go to his dad at first, he thinks that his dad never cared about him all the time and is angry that his dad now wants to see him
Fiona
Pizza Express on Upper Street
- Will at first doesn’t know how to talk about the problems and isn’t sure if he’s the right person for this
- Fiona is happy that she can talk to a person about her problems
- she tells Will how she felt the last time
- As they are at Fiona’s home they get to know that Marcus is at a police station in Royston
- she needed a person to talk to
- Fiona thinks she is depressed, and it’s an illness
- Fiona knows that there is nothing that Will can do to help her
- Will wants to help Fiona although he doesn’t want to sleep with her
- Will thinks about Rachel and is at first angry about that she didn’t come
- he wants to hate her but couldn’t
Ellie,
Policemen,
Clive,
Lindsey,
policewoman
recordshop,
police station
- They talk about life, especially Ellie’s life
- She thinks her life is ‘shit’
but Marcus thinks that this is entitled
- Before the train stopped at Royston station Ellie jumps off the train; Marcus follows her
- As the come to a record shop Ellie throws her shoe into the window, because she is angry that people want to make money with his death
- Marcus and Elli are taken to a police station
- Clive and Lindsey arrive
- Marcus thinks about his life and what has going on the last time and about his relationship with Ellie
- he thinks that his mum is
responsible for everything bad, that happened the last time
- He thinks they don’t fit together
- Marcus is surprised as Ellie says that Marcus is her friend
- Marcus become more and more self-confident
- Marcus says to his father that he is a useless father
Marcus,
Fiona,
Katrina,
Ellie,
Rachel,
Policewoman,
Ruth
At the police station
- They talk about Ellie and her behavior
- Katrina thinks ‘she is out of control’
- Ruth, the owner of the record shop
Arrives and explains that she is a big fan of Kurt Cobain and that she feels nearly the same as Ellie
- Will thinks that these
connections are all because of Marcus
- Will is going to be very sensible
- tries to understand the feelings
of the others
- Will things that Marcus and Ellie willbe forever friends
10:30 pm
- Clive wants to be alone with Marcus (‘then Clive sort of nodded at Lindsey’…P.245,line 49-50)
- Marcus and Clive talk about the last
time
à Now Clive knows that he wants to care more about Marcus and that Marcus needs a father
- Marcus thinks that he will cope at school and with everything else and feels a sort of security
- Clive says to Marcus that Lindsey wanted a baby
- Marcus says that he like it, although he doesn’t
- Marcus wants Lindsey and Clive to be happy
Marcus,
Ali,
Fiona
at Marcus home
- They go to the cinema
- Ali asks Will if he is going to marry his mum
- Will wants to stay together forever with Rachel
- Fiona sees in how far Marcus changed and it seems that he is much older
- She thinks he smokes
- Will lost his shell, his cool and his distance, he felt scared and vulnerable
- Marcus lost himself
- Will misses Marcus
- Marcus hates Joni Mitchell
- Marcus dressed better; other hair cur; he doesn’t sing out loud;
- Zoe & Ellie are still his friends
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