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Plot
, Ironman is about a highschool senior named Bo Brewster. Bo is wanting to participate in the Yunkon Jack which is a biking-swimming-running triathlon. But the few things that get in his way involve relationship problems between father and son, an english teacher and old football coach, who Bo keeps calling him horrible names, and Because of that Bo must participate in anger management classes. And while Bo is training, he finds out his mentour who teaches the swimming team is gay. You also meet Bo's foil, Whyrak, who is challenged by Bo's martial arts girlfriend, Shelly. When you thought nothing else could get worse in the poor boys lif, you find out that Bo's father gave a bike that Bo had been saving up for the Yunkon Jack to buy from his dad, just gives it away to Wyhrak. But with the help of the other kids in the anger management group, Bo overcomes the obstacles and meets his goal, to compete in the Yunkon Jack triathlon, and also beats Wyhrak.

Major Themes
Crutcher got many reviews for the theme. O'malley wrote about Bo's goals by saying," Beauregard Brewster yearns to excel in the upcoming Yunkon Jack, swimming-biking-running triathlon." O'malley also talked about the implements that get in Bo's way. She wrote," we meet Beau's father, whose difficult relationship with his son bear's strong resemblance to that between Redmond and Beau. O'malley also wrote the obstacles Bo has to face." She noted, " Anger management group sessions at school that beau has been ordered to attend." And, " Lionel Serbousck, now a young-and, accidentally, gay- journalism teacher and an important mentor." Sierruta commented on Crutcher's idea of Bo's and his dad's relationship in the past and how itneffectsbtheir relationship in the future. In the Horn Book Magazine, he wrote, " when Beauregard Brewster was nine years old, a confrontation with his father over a slammed door caused him to be banished to his room from his own family. For several months Bo was confined to his bedroom and forbidden to participate in after-school activities, eat at the dinner table, or even join the family for Christmas celebration. Although Bo is now a high school senior, the incident serves as a metaphor for his life."

=,= Reception == Crutcher got many comments about the reception, the majority of them about the characters. Gorman wrote, “Bo’s father is not merely mean, he’s vicious.” And, “When Bo finds a girlfriend, she is not merely understanding, she is martial arts expert who was horrendously mistreated by an adoptive family and is training to be on the ‘American Gladiators’ television show.” And, “The leader of Bo’s anger management group, which is central to the narrative, is not merely wise, warm and brave, he is a Japanese-American cowboy with a full Texas twang.” And, “Other kids in the group are not just in trouble, they are victims of child molestation, physical and verbal abuse, poverty and abandonment.” And, “The bad guys are so bad. One of them even shoots his child’s puppy!"

Style
Crutcher got many good reviews on the type of styles Ironman was written. In the New York Times Review, Gorman complimented Crutcher’s engaging style when he wrote, “Mr. Crutcher is writing for readers who would probably rather watch television than pick up a book.” Sieruta also explained Crutcher’s style when he said, “Told alternately through a series of funny, hyperbolic letters that Bo writes to broadcaster Larry King and an omniscient narrative that provides greater balance and perspective, the novel details Bo’s experiences as he learns something about his father, his classmates, and his own inner strength and emotions.” Gorman also wrote, “There is a seldom false note in Bo’s thoughts and feelings, which he sets down in letters to his imagined confidant Larry King.