Tyler's Twisted

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Twisted is a book that aims to inform kids and teeagers the consiquences of bullying and cyberbullying. Tyler has always been in the shadows as a kid, seen as the weird nerd who stays home every weekend playing computer games. He decides to change his image by doing a prank that didn’t go as planned. Now the school sees Tyler as a weird freak that is possibly dangerous. He has a major crush on this girl and soon they get close, but after a party one night it goes downhill from there. A drunken high school party leads to inappropriate pictures being posted online which of course points to Tyler. He isn’t guilty but no one believes him, and why would they, he has had problems with the law before. His family is falling apart, the girl he likes …show more content…

He is always caught up in some kind of trouble, from getting caught for graffiti, to bad grades, to going to a party while on probation, to being accused of posting some pictures online. He isn’t a very lucky guy. Of course Tyler isn’t the only family member who go in trouble in the book. Tyler’s younger sister Hannah is a freshmen who looks out for her brother while trying to fit in. She is seeing his best friend Yoda and they end up running into Tyler the night of the party. Tyler isn’t Tyler without his best friend Yoda (Calvin). He got his nickname for his obsession for Star Wars, but he has always had good intentions when it comes to dating Tyler’s sister. Of course this incident wouldn’t have happened if it hadn’t been for Hannah. Tyler puts himself out there for Hannah, the most popular rich girl who everyone sees as perfect. They get close she gets drunk and nothing good ever comes out of a drunken high school party. Chip has never liked Tyler in fact he was always the one to bully him, it doesn’t help that his sister Hannah started hanging out with him. Now he really has it out for …show more content…

Tyler never really cared about people’s opinions but he changes himself for Hannah. He would get mad at Yoda, the only person who was nice and tried to help him when he was going through a hard time. I think the theme was about think about your actions before you do something. Tyler was planning on running away and he took his dad’s money and gun but instead of killing himself or moving to Minnesota he stays and confronts his problems. It’s hard for a lot of people to deal with things that way but it’s part of growing up. This book touches some uncomfortable points because Tyler deals with suicidal thoughts and this is a hard topic for some students to talk about or think about because maybe they are dealing with these things themselves. It opened my eyes because I personally have never dealt with any of this myself but it made me think about the people around me. This is a self vs. self conflict for sure because Tyler had to get over his thoughts and be ok with himself and learn to forgive the people around his as

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