Her innocence and commitment to Catholicism function as a major plot element.

Seventeen-year-old Mary Katherine is a member of that community, and it is she who contributes most significantly to Christopher’s fate.

They also affect the destiny of the entire community. Those days are the foundation for the remainder of the novel. He follows it into Mission Street Woods and is not heard from for six days. One day, Christopher spots a huge cloud in the sky that he thinks has teeth and a happy smile. Twins Mike and Matt (called the M & Ms) befriend Christopher and Edward. Jenny constantly taunts Christopher about his short pants. Brady and a girl named Jenny become Christopher’s nemeses. One of those bullies, Brady, is the son of the owner of Collins Construction, which plans to tear down the woods to build a subdivision. Mentally challenged, he is nicknamed Special Ed by bullies. On his first day in second grade, he finds a kindred spirit, Edward. He mixes up letters when reading he struggles with the simplest math problems. She doesn’t take into account the place’s terrifying past or her son’s efforts to fit in as the new kid in school.Ĭhristopher has always been a slow learner. There is only one highway in and one highway out. Kate thinks the town near Pittsburgh will be a safe haven. With little money, they move into a motel. Kate is fleeing an abusive new relationship begun after Christopher’s father died. The story picks up 50 years later, when 7-and-a-half-year-old Christopher and his mother, Kate, arrive in Mill Grove from Michigan. Imaginary Friend starts with young David slipping out of bed on the second night of a full blue moon and into the Mission Street Woods. Twenty years later, he has reinvented the literary horror novel. It became a successful book and a popular film and was the quintessential novel of modern adolescence in which he reimagined the angst of teens. You won’t be able to stop.” Or, at least: “Do not read it at night.”Ĭhbosky published The Perks of Being a Wallflower in 1999. It might just as well begin with a warning to the reader: “Don’t start reading this book.

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