The connection I am making
between my book King of the Screwups and A Midsummer Night’s Dream is Lysander
and Liam are both very determined to get what they want. Liam is determined to
become friends with the weirdest girl in his school and become unpopular so he
can impress his dad and make him proud. Lysander disobeys his parents to meet Hermia
so he can marry the love of his life. Liam’s dad got tired of his foolishness and
need for popularity so he sent him away to temporarily live with his uncle. Liam
want to make his dad proud so he tries to become unpopular at his new school but
no matter what he does he just gains more popularity and the girl he wants to
become friends with hates him even more each time. First, Liam tries to get good
grades and he has great participation in class with no problems, except for the
fact that everything he says is wrong. Darleen, the “nerdy” girl Liam wants to
befriend, thinks he’s mocking her and she ignores him. Next Liam tries to dress
opposite of his usual high quality fashion but no one seems to care or notice
and some actually compliment his new sense of style. Lastly, he tries to join
an academic club but he’s not smart enough to join anything that will make him
less popular. This is until he finds out about the AP club that do the morning
announcements. Liam thinks he finally found something that will make him seem
like a loser but when he does the announcements as bad as he could everyone
loves him and they think he was hilarious. This is, except for Darleen. She is
mad at him because she takes the morning announcements very seriously. He is
getting pretty frustrated by this time but he never gives up. Liam shows so
much determination to impress his dad just like Lysander is so determined to marry
Hermia. Lysander knows that if he fails to succeed he could end up with serious
consequences for himself and Hermia but his doesn't keep him from going for
what he really wants. Lysander wants Hermia to be his forever but her parents want
her to marry Demetrius. Hermia doesn't care for Demetrius so she and Lysander
makes plans to wed outside of Athens because there the law won’t matter and
they won’t be prosecuted.
