Stepfather

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1. Make a comparison between “You don’t know me “and the movie “The step father”. Enumerate 5 differences and similarities:

|Similarities |Differences |
|In both cases where physical abused |In the movie the stepfather tried to hitMichaels mom and hits |
| |Michael girlfriend. |
|The moms didn’t know the stepfather well |John and Michael where from different ages |
|In the movie the old women suspects and in the novel Mr. |In John case was physical abuse andmental with all the things |
|Steenwilly |that he said. |
|No sexual abuse |The neighbors of john didn’t know anything but in Michael case |
| |suspects|
|Both of them, Michael and John finish in the hospital |Michael mom doesn’t believe the things that tell to her about |
| |David and John’s mom didn’t know anything. |





2. Explain the Plot of the novel with all its parts:John is a 14 years old boy. He lives his “life that is not a life” with his mother and “the man who is not my father”.

Let's be real, the man who is not my father isn't a very nice man. Not just because he is not my father but because he hits me when you're not around, and he says if I tell you about it he'll really take care of me.

It's a situation that canonly deteriorate. You can hear all about it from John, blow by blow:

The second slap catches me on top of my ear and is so hard it would knock me off my feet if he weren't holding me tightly. There are tears in my eyes, and I am suddenly looking back at the man who is not my father through a kaleidoscope, so that his image keeps breaking apart and re-forming.

He isliving with his mom and step father. He goes to a school that it’s not a school, its anti-school. He doesn’t like his math teacher and hate algebra. It’s an unsecure boy. He tried to live in his own world to forget problems. He thinks no one knows him. He plays tuba “that it’s not a tuba because it never produces a musical sound. It’s actually a giant frog pretending to be a tuba.”

Now, ifsomething like that is happening to you at home, it is difficult to carry on living a normal life at school, but John has a go. He drifts his way through maths:

Of course, I do not understand the slightest syllable of algebra gibberish that Mrs. Moonface is uttering, but she cannot tell that from my appearance.

and band practice:

The reason I am in your band room,holding on to a giant frog that is pretending to be a tuba, is because the process of elimination has brought me here. There is nothing I am better at than not being able to play this tuba that is not a tuba.

But someone it’s suspecting about what it’s happening to John; Mr. Steenwilly

“John it’s none of my business, but its everything all right at home? Because you were wearing aT-shirt the other day and I could have sworn I saw red marks on your arm and shoulder. They looked like someone had been grabbing you…

He is in love with the “ugliest girl in school, Gloria hallelujah” and has a friend who it’s not a friend. Then things happened with Gloria, He goes with a basketball game and tried to be normal. Then when Gloria accepted he was secure things...