butter by erin jade lange chapter summaries

Where Lange succeeds is tapping into the heart of kids who might otherwise be ignored or misunderstood, showing that they are real people with real feelings. Butter is an accessible character with depth and realism, someone even the thinnest most popular kids in school can relate to.

Yes, there is an overabundance of underage drinking and shallow adolescent humor here, but the story itself is really touching. Lange perfectly captures the seedy side of high school, though it would have been nice if she had somehow acknowledged the fact that not all high schoolers are sex-crazed, partying, alcoholics. Told in Butter's voice, the story is straightforward with few embellishments. What Butter does is, as my son said, disturbing. But when the countdown to his suicide finally arrives, he has to decide whether or not he'll go through with it. His new although morbid friendships lead Butter into a world he never thought he could be a part of. When he creates a website, 'Butter's Last Meal,' to his surprise the very kids who once shunned him now rally around him. Butter decides to literally eat himself to death on New Year's Eve, the night he has also promised to reveal his true identity to Anna. His only escape is his online relationship with Anna, who believes her virtual boyfriend is a jock from another school, and playing his sax. He whipped through it in days and told me it was 'disturbing' and 'a great book.' Very odd words to describe a book about a 423 pound teenager.īutter's hefty weight makes him an outcast at school and at home. He's an avid reader and very fast, and I trust him to give me an honest opinion about anything he's read. I brought the book home, read the first chapter, and handed it to my teenage son.

Finally my curiosity got the better of me. I picked up BUTTER after hearing about for months.

Butter by erin jade lange chapter summaries