About a Boy Kapitelübersicht

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Chapter 8
Summary: Will meets Suzie and Marcus an RegentŽs Park to the picnic. Will does not know Marcus because Suzie has not tell him anything but Will thinks that Marcus is really weird. Will is not nice to him, his behaviour towards Marcus is quite unfriendly but Marcus does not act better than Will. Later that day Will forgets Ned, his son, in conversation with Suzie. Marcus wants to feed a duck, but the piece of bread is to big and so he kills the duck.

Chapter 9
Summary: Marcus is shocked about the dead duck. A parkkeeper appears to punish Marcus for his "murderer" but Will defends Marcus in front of him. The parkkeeper goes away. Then they go to get Marcus home. When they arrive at the flat they find Fiona lying on the sofa, looking really ill. She had have a suicide attempt. Will calls the ambulance. Suzie is really angry about Fiona because she haves a child but she is also afraid of the possible dying of Fiona.


Chapter 10
Summary: Will goes with Suzie and Marcus to the hzospital. He tries to make Marcus happy and is friendly to him because he feels pity for him. Will now invents Paula, his ex-wife because Suzie wants to know the name of her.

Chapter 11
Summary: Fiona has written an farewell and Marcus finds it when he gets home from hospital. Later that day Suzie comes to bring Fiona home frome hospital. Marcus feels really strange. Marcus is afraid of his mother state and so he decides not to trouble her. So they spent a normal evening with no trouble.

Chapter 12
Summary: Suzie calls Will and asks him if he could take a little bit care about Marcus because she thinks he is lonely. Will agrees. Will buys a magazine to find out what he can do with Marcus when he takes him out. In the afternoon Marcus calls Will. He uses the chance to invite Marcus do do anytging with him, but Marcus only wants to if he can take his mum with them. Will agrees again. Later that day Will visits the Mothercare shop to buy a car seat to convince to Marcus and Fiona that Ned exists.

Chapter 13
Summary: Marcus wants to go to Planet Hollywood because he has heard sometimes you can meet celebrities there. But they have to wait a really long time and so Fiona and Will decides to go to an other resturant. At the resturant which Will has recommended Fiona and Marcus tells Will that they are vegetarians. Will can not understand this. He also can not find anything good at Fiona and so they all spend a terrible afternoon.

Chapter 14
Summary: Will first times visit Marcus and Fiona. But now he really knows that Fiona absolutely is not his type. At home marcus and Fiona sing "Killing me softly" at the piano with eyes closed what makes Will sick. Later that week Marcus visits Will first time and they spent an afternoon together. Thats why marcus now knows that Will does not have a child but he does not really care about it.

Chapter 26
Summary: Will tries to explain Marcus why rachel thinks he is his son but Marcus can not really understand. Will wants Rachel to be his girlfriend although he only meet her once. Will wins the discussion, their go to Rachel and want to do like father and son. Marcus tries to teach Will peieces of information he should know if he is his father. Will is a little bit embarassed about Marcus because Alistair is much cooler than Marcus with his cool clothes and such stuff.

Chapter 27
Summary: Alistair is really mean to Marcus an he says he is going to kill him if his father goes out with rachel. Marcus runs away from RachelŽs place because he is fed up with Alistair and his speech impressed him really much. Will finds him at a bus station near RachelŽs place, he can convince him to come back and tells him that Ali is crying like a little baby because Marcus left. Rachel tell them that her last boyfriend has not been so nice to Alistair as he has to be and so Ali is also afraid of a new relationship of her. Later Marcus and oe go shopping, while the girls buy chocolate bars some guys appear and buly Marcus. Bacause of that Elli hit one of them.



Chapter 28
Summary: Marcus is fascinated about that Ellie hit this guy. But Will tells him that their relationship seems more like an owner-pet relationship to him than a normal one. Later that day Will meets Rachel for supper and he tries to explain her the whole thing with Marcus but she can not really understand why he do that. Because of their conversation Will reconizes that Marcus means anything to him, that he had become vulnerable.

Chapter 29
Summary: Marcus haves some good weeks without realizing it but then Fiona starts the morning crying again. Marcus tells Will that his mum is depressed again and wants hin to help her. But Will explains Marcus that they only are frerinds althuogh if he is an adult and so it is not his duty to care about his mum. At school Ellie is sad because Kurt Cobain had an suicide attemp but Marcus can not understand her because he thinks that his mum is more real than him and so his problem is uch more important than hers.

Chapter 30
Summary: Will haves a really strange mood, so he decides to visit Rachel. He can not understand why they have had no sex yet. Few time later she wants him to her bedroom and then tey have sex. Later rachel explains Will why Fiona is such depressed and she agreed to talk to her.

Chapter 31
Summary: MarcusŽdad break his collar bone and so Fiona wants him to visit him but Marcus does not feel pity for his dad. But he haves to go. Ellie wants to come with him, what makes marcus happy. At the day they want to leave, Kurt Cobain committs suicide. Marcus wants to hide this news from Ellie but she already knows it.

Chapter 32
Summary: Will,Rachel and Fina will meet for supper but rachel does not appear, so Will is alone with Fiona and now he is forced to talk to her. Fiona cries a lot but he can help a little bit because he listens to her. Later that evening they leave the bar and go to Pizza Express and order some pizza. Will now knows Fiona better than before. Fiona is worries about Marcus because she knowas that Kurt Cobain killed himself.

Chapter 33
Summary: Ellie gets drunk at the train to Cambridge and they have a great conversation about their lives and the general sense of life. Suddenly, at the next station, Ellie leaves the train and Marcus follows her. Ellie destroys a window of a record shop becaus there hang a picture of Kurt Cobain. So Marcus and Ellie have to go to the police station because of the broke window. Later Clive and Lindsey arrive and Marcus and Ellie have a interrestin discussion about about Clive and his care about his son and FionaŽs suicide attempt.

Chapter 34
Summary: Katrina, EllieŽs mum informs Fiona about everything and so they call Will to drive them to Royston. When they arrive there really bad vibes at the police station. The owner of the record shop, Ruth, arrives and first Elliue hates her because she thinks Ruth only wants to make money with Kurt Cobain but then she realizes taht both are huge fans of him. Later they all can go and so they go to eat some burger. Marcus haves an argue with his father because he wants him to come with him but Fiona wants him back to London.

Chapter 35
Summary: Marcus stays with his father. Clive thinks alot about his live since his accident, now he knows that he has been a bad father and wantsn to change his behaviour towards Marcus. Marcus make some jokes about CliveŽs broken collar bone. They also talk about Lindsey because she wants a baby with Clive.

Chapter 36
Summary: Will now knows that he loves Rachel. He goes out with Ali and Marcus to give their mothers a break. Ali askes Will if he wants to marry Rachel and now Will have to think about it. Fiona is worries because Marcus seems much older now but Will tries to explain her that this is good for him. He makes a test: Will wants Marcus to sing a Joni Mitchell song but Marcus does not want to. Now Will knows that he haves help Marcus to change himself.

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Juan