User:Yanina707722/Draft of Damaged By A.M. Jenkins

Plot summary
In this section it sets up the mood for the whole book. In chapter one it sets the mood that Austin is a depressed person and is some what suicidal. It also introduces Austin and his two best friends Dobie and Curtis. In chapter 2 it shows Austin and his friends are football players. The chapter also gives more details about how they are. In chapter 3 it introduces Austins mom and Becky. Also it expresses how Austin feels about going to school, also how he is used to the routine he does every year to go to school. Chapter 3 show's Austin and his friends favorite spot which is Dairy Queen, also Austin and Heathers meet. In chapter 4 they talk about Heather and how Austin would end up with her, and how he's friends feel about her. This chapter also sets the mood for Austin and Heather and how there first date happens. In chapter 5 they talk about Austin first away game, and how it plays out.

In chapter 10 Austin talks about how he used to be the one to give Dobie rides home after his practices, but since he started to date Heather, Curtis takes Dobie home. It also talks about what him and Heather do after practice which is they go to the spot which happens to be Dairy Queen, and how they get there usual. They (Austin and Heather) have a conversation about what happened between Curits and Kat. Austin waits for Heather to brush her hair before going off, he said "This waiting for hair to be brushed - is the price of dating Heather". They sit in the car just hanging out for a while. Heather think Austin is mad at her when he really is not and she gives him oral sex to please him also in hopes that he won't be mad no more. Then two weeks later they have sex. In chapter 11 Austin plays in his sixth game, and Curtis ended messing up. Curtis gets bothered by this and he does not speak for a while. They are gonna go out that night and they invite Austin, but he's going to be to busy with Heather. In chapter 12 Curtis happens to be in the middle of Bull-in-a-Ring since he messed up the game in chapter 11. After Bull-in-a-Ring Austin does not know if he should help his best friend up or do as the couch said and go get ready to do sprints...He goes to do sprints...In chapter 13 Austin sits in Heathers room and watch's her get dressed. They just talk about the usual stuff. Heather ask's Austin to pass her a clip when he goes to find it he opened the wrong drawer and she gets mad, Austin stared at the note, it was from her father. Austin tell's her its okay to talk about her father to him, but she does not seem to want to open up. Soon Austin has to leave. In chapter 14 Austin and Heather get into a little argument, and then when they make up they go off to Dariy Queen. After that Austin wants to "please her" but she takes it the wrong way and goes off on him, and tells him all these mean things that make him depressed. In chapter 15 it talks about his ride home; lonley. When he arrives he goes all suicidel in the bathroom and is thinking about cutting himself, but Becky his little sister comes to the door with the phone, and it happens to be Heather on the line. She wants to talk so she ask's him to go over. He drives back over to her house.

Characters
Heather is Austin's Future girlfriend, girlfriend, and also ex throughout the book. She is a big b!@#$. Heather tends to stay to herself about her past. She thinks that Austin is her everything at one point, they are usually spending the most time together throughout the book. She seems to be bi-polar and psycho, because she has mood swings out of no where at certain points, like when Austin see's the ripped up note in her basket when he opened the wrong drawer. She also does not like Austin's best-friends which are Dobie, and Curtis. Kat is Curtis ex-girlfriend. They don't talk much about her throughout the book, but they did say that Curtis was and still is in love with her. She went forward in the relationship and they had sex an everything, then she tried to go back but Curtis had gotten used to it that he was not able to. So they ended breaking up. Dobie is one of Austin's best-friends along with Curtis of course. He is a football player, an he drinks beer. He does not think Austin should go out with Heather because he feels that she is using him. He does not feel comfortable being around Heather, like one day after practice Austin gives him a ride home but he sits in the back of the truck because Heather is in the front.

 Couch, well he is the football couch. He is mean as a starving lion eating a piece of meat. He is not that important, but he creates a game called Bull-in-a-Ring which involves on of the players being in the middle of the circle and the other team mates tackling him down one or two down at a time. A game which could injury one of his players.

Reception
According to the review by Su Terry, she says the book is good. She says she likes how "it's realistic". She also said "the point of view hindered my enjoyment of the novel." Which is true alot of people will enjoy the book because of the point of view. Su Terry tells some details about the book and the parts she enjoyed the most. She also said "the novel has two drawbacks..." Which is true but besides that the book was good.