The 14-year-old San Lee knows exactly what’s coming. After several school change he knows the procedure from the Eff Eff: He is the eternal new in a class. With his mother Diana, he is now moved to Harrisonville, Pennsylvania. His father have left her in Texas; a jail cell is its new home there. Long enough Mom had fallen for Dads diffuse tall tales until struck by a stupid story came out that he was a long-wanted criminal. So they had always fled from one state to the other to move.
San Lee, of the rich Snobby in California the skater, in Alabama the Bible freak, in Houston, in Germany the wannabe macho mimed, makes serious thought to how he should be this time.
Go with the crowd, dad advised him. But so completely disappointed as he is about this gentleman Munchausen, it is his tip determined not followed. Psychologists advise children should simply be her own. That seem to have no idea what’s going on when you pushed or tortured, is at best ignored Bad luck.
Everything bawls, will take as San in his chair space, just at the moment when , wants to bring calm to the class Mr Dowd, the social studies teacher. Half a chair leg was missing, and San kladdert noisily to the floor. Well, the old hat he did not have to fall … friendly hands him the chubby Mr Dowd (with white beard a la Santa Claus) hand, welcomed him and makes him the subject of the next few weeks before: Buddhism
Regardless scribbles San louder Ying-Yang symbols on his workbook and writes to the name line thickness in capitals LAUGHING ARCHER, what is the name of an underground band that he knows of Houston – and so on.
he schliddert into a tall tale with which he flays long impression until the end everything blows up. the author Jordan Sonnenblick has his protagonist San Lee loose-fuzzy, cool and tell fanciful from his perspective. Although he suspects “just a collection of semi-lame half-talent” with him, the clever boy reflects on how he can use exactly what makes him an outsider. He is Chinese, unsportsmanlike, comes in crumpled sandals therefore, and social studies theme fits perfectly.
So he gives the Zen Buddhists, known as LAUGHING ARCHER that, from now on, every morning, even in heavy snow in the lotus position on a rock at the school minutes “zazen” is. He has written many books borrowed in the library, knows all about thinking and non-thinking and how to find the right path. The acquired by reading philosophy, he is convincing in words and deeds on -. A “fake” fall for the all is
particularly impressed Woody, a girl from a wealthy family, with purple-tinted glasses and a hairstyle that to a Aztec temple recalls. Every noon she plays in the cafeteria on a guitar and begging for money. San is from the moment of their encounter to blown away. How he would have with it a “earthly bond”. But easily the girl is not to conquer, because there’s her step-brother Peter, who has a hatred for San, and another guy named ELL …
Can San Lee and Woody models be? Although San Lee is not honest with his classmates, but he develops, manages ostentatious as sports bottle in the basketball game, inspired and motivated the worse B team to win against the A-Team. “The people who learn a Zen art, the steps over and over again practice … If the actions are carried out entirely by instinct, the student has become a master.”
Woody would like a good student be, and she is committed to socially disadvantaged. A portion of their generous pocket money they would like to donate, but reaps violent trouble with her father, a dentist. In the land of opportunity, he says, give it to anyone a job, because if he high only get his butt times. When he shortens the pocket money, Woody collects donations with her songs and her guitar. Wednesday she welcomed the homeless in the soup kitchen, and the new, it has also brought. Jordan sun gaze “Buddha Boy”
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