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About a Boy: Complete Summary and Characte­r Dynamics

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Summary: „About a boy“

Marcus and his mother Fiona has moved to London. The kids in his new school treat Marcus like he was a freak and everyone, except from his mum and her friend Suzie, consider him weird. Marcus has a terrible time at home, where he has to look after his depressive mum, outside school, where older kids follow him, bully him and steal his things. And of course in school, where the children and the teachers make fun of him.
The same time in another part of London, Will Freeman has just broken up with a single mum, and is now wondering how to get in contact with new sexy single mothers. He gets an idea, which includes pretending he has a son called Ned, so he can join SPAT (Single Parents - Alone Together) and hopefully meet single mums.
On the SPAT-meeting, he meets a nice  woman called Suzie, and she invites him to go on a picnic in the park with her the following Saturday. Will accepts the invitation, and spends the next week buying baby seats for his car and learning things about babies.
The same week Fiona tells Marcus that he’s going on a picnic with her friend Suzie. He doesn’t want to, but his mother forces him to go.
On the following Saturday Marcus and Will meets. Will thinks that Marcus is weird and annoying and Marcus thinks that Will is a good-for-nothing. Marcus and Will don’t like each other at the beginning but when Marcus accidentally kills a duck with a piece of bread, Will helps Marcus out of this misery, and a strange relationship begins.
Later the same day when they bring Marcus home, they find his mother Fiona sprawled unconscious on the sofa, attempted suicide. This is a shock for Marcus. It makes him angry, and makes his life become even worse. Now he’ll have to look after her even more because if she succeeds the next time, he will be all alone.
Marcus starts to pry around, and finds out that Will doesn’t have any son called Ned, which he later tells Suzie and Fiona and they start to dislike Will a lot.
Marcus comes up with the idea that if Fiona had a boyfriend, they would be a total of three people, and if one of them disappeared, he would have at least one person left. Marcus tries to match up Fiona and Will, which doesn’t work at all.
Marcus starts to visit Will after school, even though neither Will nor Fiona wants him there, but gradually their relationship starts to grow, against Wills will. Marcus sees Will as his stepfather, and after a while Will realizes that he actually likes and cares about this strange, lonely kid.
During the next half year Will teaches Marcus how to be a boy, and what clothes and sneakers he should wear and Marcus learns Will how to be an adult. Will becomes Marcus’s best friend and even though he doesn’t recognize it, he does the right thing for Marcus on and on. Both Marcus and Will goes through drastic personality-changes. Marcus gets his first real friend named Ellie, who he meets in the corridor outside the principal’s office.
Ellie is a rebellious teenager who listens to grunge and quarrels with everybody. With her as a friend nobody bullies Marcus anymore, because they are afraid of Ellie. Marcus becomes much more self-confident, and say what he thinks to his teachers and his mother when it’s really necessary.
Will does also change, and on New Year’s Eve he breaks one of his own basic rules, not to fall in love. On a party he meets the lovely single mother Rachel, which he gets really interested in. She thinks that Marcus is his son, and he doesn’t do anything to change her belief, because it makes him more interesting for her. Will uses Marcus to win her heart, and soon they come together.
In the end Marcus and Ellie are going on a trip to Marcus’s father Clive in Cambridge to tell him their opinion, because he doesn’t care about Marcus enough. The whole trip ends up in a disaster. Ellie gets drunk as she was sad because her beloved Kurt Cobain has committed suicide. She jumps of the train on the wrong station and smashes the window to a supermarket because they have a picture of Cobain in the shop window and she thinks that it’s because they want to make money by his death, which was a misunderstanding.

 

Summary: „About a boy“

Marcus and his mother Fiona has moved to London. The kids in his new school treat Marcus like he was a freak and everyone, except from his mum and her friend Suzie, consider him weird. Marcus has a terrible time at home, where he has to look after his depressive mum, outside school, where older kids follow him, bully him and steal his things. And of course in school, where the children and the teachers make fun of him.
The same time in another part of London, Will Freeman has just broken up with a single mum, and is now wondering how to get in contact with new sexy single mothers. He gets an idea, which includes pretending he has a son called Ned, so he can join SPAT (Single Parents - Alone Together) and hopefully meet single mums.
On the SPAT-meeting, he meets a nice  woman called Suzie, and she invites him to go on a picnic in the park with her the following Saturday. Will accepts the invitation, and spends the next week buying baby seats for his car and learning things about babies.
The same week Fiona tells Marcus that he’s going on a picnic with her friend Suzie. He doesn’t want to, but his mother forces him to go.
On the following Saturday Marcus and Will meets. Will thinks that Marcus is weird and annoying and Marcus thinks that Will is a good-for-nothing. Marcus and Will don’t like each other at the beginning but when Marcus accidentally kills a duck with a piece of bread, Will helps Marcus out of this misery, and a strange relationship begins.
Later the same day when they bring Marcus home, they find his mother Fiona sprawled unconscious on the sofa, attempted suicide. This is a shock for Marcus. It makes him angry, and makes his life become even worse. Now he’ll have to look after her even more because if she succeeds the next time, he will be all alone.
Marcus starts to pry around, and finds out that Will doesn’t have any son called Ned, which he later tells Suzie and Fiona and they start to dislike Will a lot.
Marcus comes up with the idea that if Fiona had a boyfriend, they would be a total of three people, and if one of them disappeared, he would have at least one person left. Marcus tries to match up Fiona and Will, which doesn’t work at all.
Marcus starts to visit Will after school, even though neither Will nor Fiona wants him there, but gradually their relationship starts to grow, against Wills will. Marcus sees Will as his stepfather, and after a while Will realizes that he actually likes and cares about this strange, lonely kid.
During the next half year Will teaches Marcus how to be a boy, and what clothes and sneakers he should wear and Marcus learns Will how to be an adult. Will becomes Marcus’s best friend and even though he doesn’t recognize it, he does the right thing for Marcus on and on. Both Marcus and Will goes through drastic personality-changes. Marcus gets his first real friend named Ellie, who he meets in the corridor outside the principal’s office.
Ellie is a rebellious teenager who listens to grunge and quarrels with everybody. With her as a friend nobody bullies Marcus anymore, because they are afraid of Ellie. Marcus becomes much more self-confident, and say what he thinks to his teachers and his mother when it’s really necessary.
Will does also change, and on New Year’s Eve he breaks one of his own basic rules, not to fall in love. On a party he meets the lovely single mother Rachel, which he gets really interested in. She thinks that Marcus is his son, and he doesn’t do anything to change her belief, because it makes him more interesting for her. Will uses Marcus to win her heart, and soon they come together.
In the end Marcus and Ellie are going on a trip to Marcus’s father Clive in Cambridge to tell him their opinion, because he doesn’t care about Marcus enough. The whole trip ends up in a disaster. Ellie gets drunk as she was sad because her beloved Kurt Cobain has committed suicide. She jumps of the train on the wrong station and smashes the window to a supermarket because they have a picture of Cobain in the shop window and she thinks that it’s because they want to make money by his death, which was a misunderstanding.

 


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