A BOOK REPOT of FLIPPED
By Jill Li（李瑾媛）
[some pictures in this report are captured from the movie FLIPPED, not from the book FLIPPED]
◆The book details
⚫Name:FLIPPED溜肥肠的家常做法
⚫Writer: Wendelin Van Draanen
⚫Some relative information:
Wendelin Van Draanen has been everything from a fork-lift driver to a high
school teacher, but is now enjoying life as a full-time writer. She is the author of the Sammy Keyes mysteries. Wendelin lives with her husband and their two sons in Central California. Her hobbies include the Three R’ s: reading, running and rock ’n’ roll.
⚫The reasons why I cho this book:
First of all, the film adapted from this book was widely welcomed so I watched it. Of cour, I was quite taken with this film and decided to read the book as well as share my feelings with others. Secondly, I learned more reading this book than just watching that film. I realized that this fiction is not only about puppy love, but also about life philosophy (I will elaborate this point afterwards). Last but not the least, the expressions in this novel are novel, some of them make me have a better understanding of the meanings of certain words.
◆The ttings
The story takes place in an American town in the 1960s. More accurately, it takes place in a community, between two neighbors. During that time, with the rapid development of arts in America, trendy ideas came into being, especially among young people. In fact, characters in this novel have something to do with this kind of social ttings.
◆The main characters
There are many other characters in this book, including Juli’ s families, Bryce’ s families and their classmates. Becau they are not cloly related to the subject, I decide not to go into too much details here.
◆The story
The narrative mode of this novel is
interesting. The author tells the story as
the hero and the heroine respectively. As
a result, I will list how the same story
makes them feel different ways.
⚫Diving under (by Bryce) / Flipped (by Juli)
Bryce’s family moved to a hou across the
street from Baker’s. The first time they met
each other, Juli Baker was attracted by
Bryce’s eyes. When Bryce held her hand by
accident, Juli thought herlf falling in love
with Bryce. Later, they became classmates.
From then, Juli thought Bryce was the apple
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feelings about Juli. He even dated another
心理学基础知识girl to get rid of Juli Baker.
⚫Buddy, beware! (by Bryce) / The sycamore tree (by Juli)
主板跳线接法图解Juli had her own ideas and was clo to art. She enjoyed watching school bus on a sycamore tree. She also liked to climb up the tree and appreciate the scenery of the whole town, realizing that "the overall beauty is more important than local beauty" as her father said. She started to have her whole way of thinking about things to people in the tree. Anyway, Juli loves this sycamore tree. Suddenly one day, when she was at the top of the tree, she saw someone down there with tools, saying he was going to cut down the tree for a hou there. Juli was firmly oppod to cutting down the tree, so she would not come down from the top of the tree, alone and waiting to battle with workers meaning to cut down it. She felt helpless. At that moment, she saw Bryce, the boy she loved for many years. She called the boy to climb the tree, together with her to help her. She had been calling
the boy, crying clo to tears, but Bryce just looked at her, turning on the school bus. She was left to fight alone in the tree until her father came. Her father persuaded her to get down and her sycamore tree was cut down.
⚫Brawk- brawk- brawk! (by Bryce) / The eggs (by Juli)
Juli’ s chickens had laid so many eggs that the neighbors offered to pay for them, but it didn't help with the family's pile of eggs. Juli naturally knocked on Bryce's door with a box of eggs.
After a heated family discussion, Bryce ’s father let Bryce find an excu to return the eggs to Juli becau he didn’t think the eggs were clean. Bryce dare not be against his father, but he also dare not talk to Juli, so what did he do? He waited early every day, took the eggs Juli nt to him and then cretly threw them away.恶霸犬
Unfortunately, Juli discovered what Bryce had done. Bryce criticized her yard, saying it was dirty.
What a terrible joke! Bryce unexpectedly took her eggs as a breeding ground for germs! Juli was amazing, and deeply sad. Meanwhile, Bryce found something disturbing in his heart. He knew he hurt Juli’ s feelings, but he didn’t know what to do.
⚫Get s grip, man (by Bryce) / The yard (by Juli)
Juli began to pack up her feelings, putting forward with their parents at the dinner table to tidy up their yard, even if it was the duty of homeowners. Juli’ s parents had conflicts about how to find a balance between their own life and Juli’ s uncle. After calming down, they said to Juli "it's not your fault" and in the evening they took turns to Juli to comfort her in the room.
"I'm sorry for my father and I'm sorry for my mother, but I'm glad they're my parents."
⚫Looming large and smelly (by Bryce) / The visit (by Juli)
Juli baker's father was going to e uncle Daniel for his birthday, and Juli offered to go with him. Uncle Daniel was mentally retarded. When he saw Juli and her father, he was as happy as a child. All three were in high spirits at first, but in the restaurant, an accident happened. Uncle Daniel's ice cream fell onto the floor, which t him crazy. He pushed over the chair, got under the table, picked up the ice cream and put it in his mouth. Luckily, dad asked Juli to buy another ice cream, and uncle Daniel got back to normal.
On the way home, Juli thought a lot about her uncle, her family, and about Bryce. She began to think about her "love". The love to Bryce becau of tho beautiful eyes…
is this really the so-called love?
⚫The rious willies (by Bryce) / The dinner (by Juli)
Inspired by his grandfather, Bryce gradually began to try to find out the beauty of Juli. One day, he finally couldn't help discussing with his good friend in the library about Juli. However, his good friend ridiculed Juli Baker and her family, including Juli's mentally retarded uncle. Bryce's heart is refuted, but he still agreed his friend on the surface. The words happened to be heard by Juli Baker. Juli was so sad that she stopped paying attention to Bryce. Bryce wanted to explain, but Juli was no longer the little girl who loved him blindly. When the relationship between them was in a state of embarrassment, Bryce's mother propod to invite the Bakers to dinner at home. Bryce was well dresd, but Juli didn't look at him at all. Bryce was sad, but he can do nothing.
⚫Flipped (by Bryce) / The basket boys (by Juli)
Bryce finally found that he really lost his heart to Juli, while Juli thought him not a gorgeous boy, but a coward. The “basket boy” event came, and Bryce happened to be
a basket boy. He had to have lunch with the girl with the highest price. When Bryce
saw that Juli had prepared a lot of money, he was very confud. On one hand, he wanted to be “bought” by Juli, on the other hand, he was afraid to face Juli. However, Bryce was “baught” by another girl and Juli “bought” Eddie, who was thin and small that probably no one would “buy” him. You know, Juli was warmhearted and wouldn’t embarrass Eddie.
At lunch, Bryce sat behind Juli and watched Juli talk to Eddie. He found that this girl is so unique. In contrast, his heart is so poor. Bryce knew he loved Juli. He finally
couldn't help it! He went to Juli' s table, grabbed Juli' s hand and tried to kiss her, but Juli broke free.漳州旅游必去十大景点
After school, Juli rushed home, locked herlf in the room, ignored Bryce's phone, and refud to let Bryce come to her home to apologize. After her mother's persuasion, Juli said something in her heart. Bryce despid her family and cretly threw away the eggs she had nt to him. Bryce even laughed at her mentally retarded uncle with his friend. Even if he was just following the crowd blindly, it showed that he was a coward and a man without opinions. Juli’ s mother persuaded her that people will change. Maybe Bryce was not brave enough before, but now he dare to know his heart. He was still worthy of being liked.
Finally, Juli saw Bryce planting a tree, a sycamore tree. What was he doing? He was planting a new
sycamore for Juli, to making up for Juli’ s regret. Juli thought of her mother's words. She thought maybe they didn't really know each other, so why not start now?
“maybe it’s time to meet him in the proper light.”
◆My thoughts
After reading the book, I understand that this is really more than a story about puppy love.
Actually, this is a story about growing up, like one of the most moving and warm textbooks, teaching people to be good and beautiful.
I ud to fantasize about angels. I think that Juli is an angel. Although she may
not think so herlf, the light that comes out of her can save the soul.
The first time I felt this way (maybe just a little) was when Bryce and grandpa had their first conversation.
"Why isn't she your friend, Bryce?"
"Becau the girl has a lot "
"You know, not everyone lives next door to a girl like that."
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