Nick Hall Essay

Have you ever had to comfort your bully, or struggled to talk to your crush? Well in this book, Nick hall has those problems. And learns many things in the process. Booked, a verse novel by Kwame Alexander. Nick Hall a student in middle school struggles to talk to his crush April, and is scared of confronting his bullies, learns how to improve in his problems, but goes through many obstacles on the way. The author uses two characterization methods to show how Nick Hall changes from the beginning to the end of the book. One characterization technique the author uses to show how Nick changes from the beginning of the book to the end of the book is the character's words. At the beginning of the book, Nick was afraid to talk to April.

An example from the text is "uh, hell... lo, uh April" Nick was stuttering and nervous to talk to April. In the end, he talked with confidence and was not scared. "I was wondering if u want to go to the 8th-grade formal dance with me." He went to the dance with April and then, later on, had a date with her. This shows how Nick went from stuttering and nervousness talking to April to being confident and asking her on a date. Therefore this explains how the author used Nick's words to use characterization techniques to show how he changed throughout the book. One characterization method the author uses to show how Nick changes from the beginning to the end is the character's actions. At the beginning of the book, Nick was afraid to stand up to Dean and Don. In the end, Nick stood up to them. An example is, "...Dean knocks him to the ground. You just, get this, stand up there, still frozen. At the end of the book, Nick stood up to his fears, for example, "leaving your leg out just enough to trip him face first into the pool." He fought Don. He stood up to his fears and no longer was scared of them. This shows that Nick went from being scared of Dean and Don, to being able to stand up to