Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie Analysis

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In the book Sleeping freshmen never lie many characters have different things that happen and they change a lot throughout the book. Wesley cobble asked Scott Hudson for spare change and took it from him, but later on he becomes one of Scott’s biggest friends. Many of changes happened to Scott. Scott changed the most because his friendships have changed and he didn’t want Julia as bad, while on the other hand Mouth tried to kill himself. First of all Scott’s friendships changed. In the very beginning Scott had 3 friends that hung out with all the time. Those 3 people were Patrick Kyle and Mitch. Mitch was the first of three to ditch Scott. Early on Mitch got a girlfriend and is only with her. Next was Patrick, Patrick didn’t leave Scott,

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