FCR 2

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FCR 2

Out of the Pocket, Bill Konigsberg. Qtr. 1, Cycle 4 Reading Response, 53-103.

        

In the section I read, it described how Bobby Framingham and his friends took the news that Bobby was gay. It told how Bobby's friends as well as his counselor for school accepted the fact that Bobby was gay. However, Bobby still didn't know how to explain to his parents or coaches that he was gay. Bobby is also frustrated that no one understood what his situation was that he didn’t want him coming out as gay to  be a big deal to everyone but at the same time he needed to tell people to get it off his back.

         The author uses the six traits to explain how Bobby is going through his problem. He also uses the six traits to explain things like the football games that Bobby plays in, or what's going on in school for Bobby. For example, the author organizes the story like a full of week of school where Bobby goes to school, practices after school, and prepares for the big games on the weekends so its all in chronological order of what happens during the week in Bobby's week.

         During this section of the book, I noticed that he organized the story to tell how Bobby is trying to deal with people knowing he's gay, after just recently in the last section telling people that he's gay. I think the author structured this section good because he really made it feel like we were there and going through time with Bobby taking one step of the problem at a time. I think the effect the author is trying to send out is to let us feel how Bobby is feeling and try to see how this is affecting Bobby and how it would feel if it was us with his problem.