My favorite part of the book is when Bone is thinking about how much he has grown up under the guidance of I-man. He says: “It’s funny how when you change the way you look on the outside even if it’s only with a tattoo you feel different on the inside. He and I-Man meet in upstate New York in a broken down school bus but then take their life of drug dealing and petty crime to Jamaica. I guess it hit a little too close to home.īut Bone didn’t listen to me or HIS mother and in fact he ultimately takes off with his best friend and father figure, a Jamacian Rasta man called I-Man. As a mother, I was cringing with the accounting of toking and smoking and really wanted him to just go and reconcile with his mother. This story is told from the perspective of 14 year old Chappie who later becomes “Bone.” Bone lives with his mother and abusive stepfather and is living a life of drugs and petty crime. You see, I have a just turned 15 year old boy who is also trying to find his way. However, I wasn’t really in the right frame of mind for this. This novel has been compared to both “Catcher in the Rye” and “Huckelberry Finn” as a modern day version of troubled boy who finds his way. As part of my “branching out” I was encouraged to read this 1995 coming of age story about a 14 year old boy named Chappie who finds his way in Jamaica after running away from home.
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