Summary Of The Spectacular Now By Tim Sharp

The book that I am writing about is The Spectacular Now by Tim Sharp. The main idea of this novel is a kid who struggles through high school, doesn’t truly know his dad, and has become an alcoholic as well as more than acquainted with drugs. He was dumped by his girlfriend, found a nerdy, shy girl with a dark background, and set his path to help her. He made her less shy and more confident but with the cost of whiskey. Towards the end of the story, shy, nerdy girl became an alcoholic, and the main character finally met his real father and ended up despising him so much that he drank more than usual, and nearly got into an accident of the freeway. When he pulled over, his new “girlfriend” ended up getting clipped by a car and broke her arm. He then began to realize the significance of what everyone has done, or attempted to do. What really spoke to me about this story, is the abstract views on certain topics such as the way the main character takes to society. Another thing that spoke to me in this story is his misunderstanding of the way the world works, and what people are trying to do to help him. Instead, of accepting their help, he feels they are trying to punish him or trying to ruin his fun. What he doesn’t understand, is that his friends and family are simply trying to show him that he has so

The reason this provoked me was that it seemed that his dad leaving was the cause of most of his problems in life, and if he were to simply go and visit him, to go and see what he was like sooner, maybe, just maybe, he would not be so addicted to alcohol. Maybe he would have made a decent life for himself already. Maybe he might have graduated high school and had his own family with his own kids and a sustaining job and decent friends. But because he was so reluctant to listen to the truth, he was unable to do such things with his