Dun's Description Of Donovan Reckless

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Donovan is a mischievous boy at a normal school, one day he hits a statue which breaks and sends a metal ball crashing into the school gym. Donovan is caught by the superintendent, but there was a mix up and he was sent to a gifted school. Donovan in the story Ungifted is mischievous because he is reckless, impulsive, and mindless. One reason why Donovan is mischievous is because he is reckless. There is evidence of Donovan being reckless on page #253 where he is at the robotics competition and drives tin man into the other teams robot, it says,”I drove tin man right into the path of the big shiny pot(Kormon 253).” This shows that Donovan is reckless because he drove the academy's robot right into the other robot without thinking or caring of the conscience of his action. …show more content…

There is confirmation of this on page #7 it says, “I cocked back the branch, and unloaded a home run swing(Kormon 7). He is whacking the atlas statue in front of his school at the beginning of the book. This shows he is impulsive because he didn't think about what he was doing; he just did it. Another piece of information where it further proves he is impulsive, is on page #2, it says, “Our fans are great; our team is nifty! We’re going to get blown out by fifty! See, that was probably not the wisest thing to say on the day of the big game against our basketball archrivals, Salem Junior High. But I didn’t just say it; I broadcast it over the PA system to the entire school.” This is another example of Donovan being impulsive because he doesn't think of the consequences for his

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