I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Although the content was at times disturbing I thought that this book had a very genuine and honest feel to it.<\/p>\n
The way that this story is told feels very nostalgic and reminiscent of childhood. When Agostino is first introduced to the concept of sexual things, his world quickly and drastically derails itself. I found this to be a very accurate depiction of childhood. The way that new information about something can open a new world of possibilities and can also make you second guess everything you know or thought you knew is unbelievably accurate to the entire process and feelings surrounding growing up and discovery. Although I don’t relate to the exact struggle that Agostino is going through, I do deeply relate to the emotions that he is feeling of being confused and feeling deceived by seemingly everything and everyone he knows. Reading about Agostino’s journey on simply figuring things out, constantly made me reflect on my own childhood.<\/p>\n
I feel a lot of sympathy for Agostino at pretty much all times throughout the book. I felt that I had to keep reminding myself that its just a book and not real life because the emotions that Agostino felt seemed so real and urgent. It was difficult to just sit there reading instead of being able to help him.<\/p>\n
When Agostino was told by the gang about what they thought his mom and the man were doing \u00a0on their boat trips and then Agostino simply couldn’t see his mother in the same light that he had previously, I felt very bad for him because it must have been lonely. His mother seemed to be his one true support and safe place in the world up until that day where is perspective became permanently changed. This forces Agostino to not only have to process these new emotions but to have to process them seemingly alone. The author portrays such an emotional part of childhood during this process. Childhood can often feel lonely because even though you are surrounded b support, psychologically you feel like you can’t talk to people about these new things. Often times you even feel like you are the only one in the world going through it.<\/p>\n
My question for the class: Even though Agostino was clearly going through a tough time because of his sudden awareness to new information, do you think that he is happy to have found this out? Or do you think that he would’ve preferred to have never known? (obviously he would find out at sometime but try to approach this question from a child’s perspective)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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