Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie Analysis

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“High school changes people. Some for the better, some for the worst. But if one thing is true; you find out who your real friends are”-anonymous. Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie, is basically that quote in a book. However the real question is, who changed the most? Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie is a book that follows a freshman, Scott Hudson, through his first year of high school. With friends, family, and school struggles there is a lot going on. Along the way he meets many new people, that have changed, along with loses a few friends, because they changed. The book deals with lots of changes Scott is going through. Scott changed the most in Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie because, he became aware of new situations, and he began to accept the changes happening in his life. One reason Scott changed the most is, he became aware of real world situations. He became aware of how people were feeling, when his friend Mouth tired to commit suicide. He started to become aware of how he had treated people and how they may feel, even if they aren’t showing it. “I kept thinking about Mouth. He was probably all alone in the hospital. I tried to tell myself that he’d get lots …show more content…
Scott wasn’t to fond of his mom being pregnant, but when Sean, Scott's little brother, was born he didn’t hate the idea as much, he accepted it. Another way is Scott wasn’t to sure he was going to have friends. Out of his former friends, one moved, one got a girlfriend, and the other gave up on the group. Scott didn't like the idea of all his friends leaving him, but then he met new friends, and liked the change. The following quote from the book; “Then I introduced him to my friends. Wow. Two small words that mean a lot. My friends”(Lubar 275), shows how he accepted the change that was happening to him. It shows that he introduced Wesley and Lee as his friends, because he accepted the change and that was how it was going to