Did you ever want to be cool but didn’t know how to become cool? Well neither did Jeremy Heere, (the protagonist) a high school student, until he found out about the “squip”, which is a quantum computer in pill form that can communicate with your brain once swallowed. Be More Chill by Ned Vizzini is a book about Jeremy’s life all the way from PRE-SQUIP all the way to POST-SQUIP. It contains loads of excitement, and unusual events. It’s unpredictable; you never know what is going to happen next.
The plot of the book begins with Jeremy Heere sitting in math class. In the same class are three of the most popular teenagers Christine Caniglia, (major character) which Jeremy has a crush on, Anne (minor character), and Jenna Rolan (minor character). Jeremy has humiliation sheets, which are pieces of paper that reflect the times when he felt embarrassed, for his embarrassing moments which seems to happen to him a lot. Overall, the plot of the book is that Jeremy Heere wants to date Christine and at the same time he is learning to become cool, and popular (the plot).
Jeremy’s popularity all began the day of the school’s Halloween Dance, when Rich, (major character) who is the only other main character with a “squip”, explains that he has a "squip" to Jeremy. Rich used to be a loser like Jeremy, but after getting a squip, he became cool. Rich has been bullying Jeremy because of the “squip's” suggestion, but recently Rich's “squip” has been telling Rich that Jeremy would want a “squip” of his own. Rich then tells Jeremy to get his own “squip” for six hundred dollars.
While in the mall shopping for clothes Jeremy’s “squip” tells him to go over two girls that go to his school and sit with them. So Jeremy goes and sits with one who...
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...e has a “squip”. Michael tells Jeremy to tell Christine that he has “squip”. The “squip” agrees with Michael’s idea, and tells Jeremy that he (the “squip”) can dump all the memory out into a computer so that Christine would believe that he actually did all that stuff because the “squip” told him to. Jeremy then tells the “squip” to make it into a book instead. Jeremy then had to drink Moutain Dew Code Red to have the pill be dissolved because after dumping the memory the “squip” would get messed up.
At the end, the book ended up being dedicated to Christine Caniglia. I would definitely recommend this book. I really thought this book was probably the best book that I’ve ever read before (my opinion). The book was very entertaining and shocking at some points. Overall, the theme of the story was to be true to yourself and act the way you really are (the theme).
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