All About Me

I'm Meghan and I'm in Mr. Toms Grade 9 English class. I like to be called Groot though, as a nickname. I am a gymnast and I practice 3 times a week for 3 hours and compete 1-2 times a month. I also coach girls ages 4-10. I have two sisters, Courtney and Olivia and one brother, Christian. I love eating, especially ice cream. I usually spend my days on Tumblr and Twitter and creeping celebrities that don't know I exist. I love reading and writing but I don't have a favorite book. One of the best movies ever is Perks of Being A Wallflower and I also love the movie 21 Jump Street.


The book I am reading is called ‘The King of Screwups’ by K.L. Going. It’s about a teenage boy named Liam Geller who his whole life has been screwing up and messing up important events in his life, accidentally of course. When he was younger he was on national television for his supermodel mom’s interview but of course he couldn’t leave without somehow embarrassing his parents, like admitting to their paternity test. We can’t forget about the other time when his dad was receiving a very important award for his job and he was at his celebration banquet listening to his CEO dad make a speech in front of a gym full of people and his phone went off. But the last time Liam messes up is the last time his dad will put up with it. Liam is caught fooling around with a girl in his dad’s office and knocks down a pile of important documents and that is the last straw. In the morning after that incident, his parents call Liam’s redneck uncle who lives in a muddy old trailer park and asks if Liam can stay there so they can get a break from him. This is a big change for Liam because he has never talked to this uncle, he is used to wearing designer clothing and going out partying with his friends every weekend but in this trailer park, he is miles away from his friends and his uncle doesn’t even own and iron or a proper room for Liam.

Liam is a 17 year old guy. The book doesn’t give much of a description of Liam but I imagine him as a 5’7-5’8 person with short brown hair that is quiffed off his face. He has bold blue eyes and noticeable check bones with tanned skin and a built body. He is popular with his friends and with the girls and is known as a player. He is one of those kids who don’t really try in school and break the rules like a rebel. He cares more about his social life than school. Liam doesn’t really care about much and is a go-with-the-flow kind of guy. He is also quite vain as he is constantly checking his looks and hair in mirrors and he spends lots of time getting ready in the morning since he must look perfect and presentable every day. This isn’t that much of a shock because his mom is a retired supermodel and knows all about fashion and obviously has the money to buy him all his high end clothing. He thinks of himself as better than everyone else and that everyone else is below him. He figures he is too good for everyone because he is popular and his family owns a lot of money. I couldn’t think of a famous movie actor that could play Liam the way I picture him but I found a picture of a guy I think looks the most like how I picture him.

 

 

 

The book doesn't give a specific location but by the way it is describing the city I'm assuming it’s in California or Florida or a busy, high fashion city in America like those stated. It is talked about as a warm, busy city with lots of shopping malls and expensive, high fashion clothing. The trailer park is a very muddy, old dirty place. The people there seem pretty casual and some seem like big rednecks. The setting is in modern times and all clothing, diction, and technology used in the book is the latest and used in current times. The season that the setting takes place is summer to early fall because Liam is just being enrolled into his last year of school.  This setting reminds me of my trip to Florida during spring break in 2012 because of the heat and the busy streets and high fashion. In Florida there were a lot of palm trees and green grass and busy streets and tall buildings and that is how I imagined the setting in this book. There were a lot of glamorous people and it seemed really chill and that thought popped into my head when the book mentioned how Liam’s mother was a supermodel. All the shopping malls we went to and expensive places reminded me of when Liam was saying how he always had to choose the right outfit because his clothes were so expensive.