|
|
| Plot Summary of The Amazing True Story of a Teenage Single Mom |
|---|
"This is an uplifting story written and illustrated in a graphic novel style. The illustrations are simplistic black and white but pack quite a punch in getting the point across. The story starts with Kathy having a baby at age 17. In spite of being a teenage, single mom with no support from her mother, Kathy was swept up with being a mom and being in love with her baby, Stacie.
She went to work in a latex factory but held on to her dream of going to college. She did well in her job until there was a strike and she was laid off. She tried working as a waitress with little success and then moved into a chemical plant. While at the plant she came across documents proving that the chemicals that they were working with were dangerous. She was discovered copying these documents for the union and was fired.
She and her new boyfriend, Dave, decided to pack up the baby and head west. Kathy soon discovered that Dave was not as nice as he had first seemed. When she expressed a desire to go to college he became enraged and beat her up so she and Stacie fled the town where they had settled with Dave, hitchhiking and camping in the desert. Kathy finally makes it to California where she meets her father for the first time. She then moves on to Denver where she enrolls in college and is able to make her childhood dream come true.
Even though Kathy has had a terrible life (we discover through flashbacks that she was molested as a child, thrown out of her home, and got pregnant through a rape) she still holds on to her dream and, miraculously, manages to remain positive and hopeful throughout this wonderful story. "
D Gallagher, Resident Scholar
|
" The Amazing True Story of a Teenage Single Mom is a graphic novel which opens when Kathy, the main character, has a child, a girl, at age seventeen. She still wants to keep to her dreams of going to college, but faces discouragement at every turn. Her mother raised three kids alone and her sister has four. No one wants to help, in fact they are demeaning towards her.
But Kathy keeps her dreams intact because she loves her daughter, Stacie, and she sets off to get a job to support her and her child and save money for college. She works in a factory and eventually gets fired. She sets off cross country with a boyfriend she met at the factory and everything looks good until he becomes a batterer and she has to flee.
She finds herself in the desert and has a spiritual experience which helps her to have the strength to keep going and she has some luch and makes it to a friend's house in a city. There she gets back on her feet and meets Jackie, who tells her about financial aid and Metro College. Soon Kathy has realized her dream and is on the equestrian team, taking art and ballet classes and being asked her opinion about literature. She feels that her life is meaningful and wonders what her purpose might be on earth and how she might make a contribution. "
Megan Edwards, Resident Scholar
|
|
| Review Analysis of The Amazing True Story of a Teenage Single Mom |
|---|
|
Our unique search engine provides a wealth of detail about books by breaking them down into many different literary elements, all of which are searchable (click here).
|
|
Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- upbeat
Time/era of story
- present (2000-2010)
Kids growing up/acting up?
Yes
Kids:
- struggling to earn a living to survive
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Pregnancy/Child rearing
Yes
Major part of story:
- dealing with unexpected pregnancy
Age group of kid(s) in story:
- high school
Loving/sexing?
- bun/oven
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- student
- blue collar
Age:
- a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Main Adversary
Identity:
- none
- Female
Age:
- a teen
Profession/status:
- artist
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- throughout most of the book.
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 5 ()
United States
Yes
Desert?
Yes
City?
Yes
City:
- dirty, grimy (like New York)
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Unusual Style:
- a lot of play on words
Amount of dialog
- little dialog
|
|
|
Click here for more information about this book
Note: the views expressed here are only those of the reviewer(s). | |
Use our site!
17 FREE Sci-Fi Ebooks!
FREE "How to be happy" Ebook!
Feedback
Most recent discussions:
General Book Talk
Book writing discussion
Off-topic message board
Norah Lofts
12:50:53 AM
Suzanne Weyn
4:47:34 PM
Wilma Counts
1:23:32 PM
George W. Bush
5:33:46 PM
Kin Platt
12:58:29 AM
Anonymous
12:47:34 PM
Lilian Jackson Braun
10:05:52 PM
Jane Rubino
10:04:38 PM
LaVyrle Spencer
10:04:00 PM
G.A. McKevett
10:03:31 PM
David Williams
10:03:01 PM
Steven Pressfield
10:02:30 PM
Jeanette Walls
10:00:19 PM
Darryl Ponicsan
9:59:27 PM
Ann Rinaldi
9:58:30 PM
R.L. Stine
9:57:34 PM
Geoffrey Huntington
9:57:14 PM
Betty Mahmoody
9:56:38 PM
Deric Longden
9:56:11 PM
Mary Downing Hahn
9:55:48 PM
More message boards
|
