Connor Byrne September 14, 2009
Be More Chill
By: Ned Vizzini
“Be more chill” is about an average boy named Jeremy in high school who has trouble fitting in and getting girls. After a few chapters, a guy approaches Jeremy in his grade, which tells him that there is a solution to his problems. The solution is Squip. A squip is a pill that you take and it is like a little person in your brain who tells you how to be cool. Jeremy takes a squip and feels the changes right away. The squip changes many aspects of Jeremy, it changes how he dresses, how he walks, and even makes him stronger. Soon enough Jeremy starts to see these changes affect his life. He starts getting more friends, he starts getting the girls to notice him and he is getting cooler. As Jeremy is getting cooler, he is also getting involved in drugs. After a while, he starts getting frustrated with the Squip and he regrets getting it completely. So, consequently, he gets rid of the Squip, and understands that being cool isn’t even that great. The main character, Jeremy Heere, is my favorite character. I like him the best because I know him the most. You don’t get to know all the other characters as well as you do Jeremy. You learn almost every aspect about Jeremy’s life. Because of how the story is told, and how the events occurred, you feel his emotions. I find that in most books that I have read, the main character is my favorite, because he is the one that the author focus’s on the most. I think that this is how it is for most people. That’s one reason why I liked this book.
I liked this book, because I thought that it had a good story, although the author could have done a better job writing and telling the story. I thought that the book was its strongest in the middle, which I find in most books. It is hard to have a strong beginning or a strong ending, but once you start writing, the story writes itself. That’s why; I find books are strongest in the middle. I think that this is a good book to read when you are going into high school, because it teaches you about drugs and alcohol and the effects and how to handle them.
Pg. 104. “Ting. Whoa. Here we go. Welcome to SQUIP 2.5.” I chose this passage because I think that it is very important because it is the very start to all of Jeremy’s problems. When that squip turned on, he didn’t know that it would result in all those drugs and all those problems. Pg. 287. “So here you go, Christine. It’s not a letter; it’s a whole book. I hope you like it.” I think that this passage is very important because it is the very end of the book, where he tells all his secrets and all his problems to Christine. This it the very last line of the whole book, and I think that it was a good way to end.
