Slave Day

Slave Day by Rob Thomas, an excellent novel with quality points of view from eight different students and teachers at Lee High School. This story is ideal for mature, young adults, as it does contain some sexual situations. Structurally, as I mentioned before, the book is divided into eight separate and unique points of view, including seven students and one teacher. Each of the characters represents a typical high school student, such as the computer geek, the sexy brunette, and the self-absorbed jock. One literary device used was repetition, for example, if an action of one of the characters caused a disturbance, and then the point of view switched to another one of the characters, the new character would notice the actions of the previous. One of the most prevalent emotions stirred is humor, which is used to keep the reader's attention. Tommy, the trailer trash high school student bought Mr. Twilley, one of the teachers as his slave for the day. He made Mr. Twilley perform acrobatic stunts in front of the student body, causing mass hilarity. For my overall impression, I found this novel to be enthralling and absorbing, an excellent read for a young high school student. In the end, all parties are satisfied, although I will not tell you in which ways. One thing I did find problematic about the story is the happy-go-lucky conclusion. It seems that the ending of every novel should leave room for wonder and guess, but perhaps a good ending is a prerequisite for young adult literature.

I really connected with this book. Each character is completely different, yet strangely similar. Each person has a goal for Slave Day, and in a way, all of the goals are fulfilled. Rob Thomas was extremely effective in intertwining the stories of the characters. All in all, this was one of the best books I have ever read.

I picked this book up at the school library because I hadnothing else to read. I ended up loving the book and I highlyreccomend it. It had the main plot but then it also had several twits and turns of sub-plots. By the end you really feel like you know every single character.

The pacing of "Slave Day" never lets up as the story unfolds from the points of view of a wide spectrum of characters, each with a voice that rings funny and true. Nobody's perfect, nobody's all bad. All are flawed but changing as each takes a risk on slave day, pushing the envelope of their lives a little further with surprising results. The risks taken are not as extreme as in TURTLE DIARIES nor do we see the changes all occur in that day, but, by the time the day comes to a close, we can predict that no one's life will be quite the same. This is a great read for high school students from any clique, non-clique, or ethnicity, for any teacher, or for anyone else wanting to hear contemporary voices to snap you awake. I loved it.

I highly reccommend this book, it's a true to life, in depth look at what high school life is like in Generictown, USA. It allows you to take a step back and look at what is happening around us everyday.