Twisted - Laurie Halse Anderson

The book, Twisted, by Laurie Halse Anderson, is about high school senior named Tyler Miller that for years, has liked a girl in his school named Benthany Milbury, which she is the daughter of the boss where Tyler's Dad works. Tyler never really got any attetion from any girls and was like a "nerd" and not popular in high school. Since Bethany is really gorgeous to everyone in the school, Tyler thinks he'll never get the chance to go out with Bethany. But, then senior year came around, and Tyler has decided to do something remarkable, where nobody will underestimate him ever again. So, one night, he does graffiti on one of the school's walls, but what he doesn't know is that there is a camera outside the building. Soon after he gets caught and has through probation and work to help out his damages to the school. While senior year still goes on through the book, Tyler is becoming more popular and everybody knows him. Even Bethany starts getting close to him and later, she catches feeling for Tyler too. She invites Tyler to a few football games, but then Halloween came around, and she invites Tyler to a Halloween party. Things look like they will get better and they will soon be together. But in the halloween party, where they go into a room, and kiss, not much intense things. But Tyler helds her back because she's drunk and thinks it's wrong to do that to her. So, after the party, Tyler gives Bethany, Parker, which is a junior, and Chip, Bethany's brother, that is quite mean to Tyler. Only when Tyler sees Parker and Bethany kissing, of course he gets mad and drops them off and believes the things between them they already have started, will to down. The next day, on the internet, there are naked pictures of Bethany that people think that Tyler did this. So, police investigate and after awhile, they found Tyler's innocence and his family is happy. After all this, his family and him want to forget about everything that has happened and move on, trying to shape up their lives.

I feel like this book, didn't really have a theme, but I thought about it and figured that it was trying to tell me, because of all the problems that happened to Tyler, is that anyone can have a lot of problems in life and you will always be underestimated. But doesn't mean you should give up on you and fail. Instead you should learn from your mistakes and forget about what happened in the past, if you wver did something wrong and let it go. It made sense to me that I even though we might have problems and go through hard things in life, we can still make the choice if we want it like that or if we want to change. Eveyone has the ability to shape up their life and go through a good path in life in order to succeed and forget about all the negative things that happened to you in the passed. To not let the things that happened in the past, bother you in the present and the choices you make in life.