Summary Of Kids Of Appetite By David Arnold

The story, Kids of Appetite, by David Arnold is about a teen named Victor who has a hard time finding friends and people like him who are unordinary. Kids of Appetite is a beautiful story about finding yourself and falling in love with people, music, art, and life. In the story, Victor struggles with adapting to his mother finding a new spouse, so he runs away to join the kids of appetite. They find themselves living in an abandoned hotel and on a mission to scatter Victors dead dad’s ashes around New Jersey. This story deeply shows the reader new perspectives of the characters and what their lives are like and what they were like. Kids of appetite teaches the importance of love and family, blood or not. “I used to think love was bound by

Cigarettes are one example of symbolism. When it’s Mad’s chapter in the book, she constantly uses Drag, Blow, Calm, as her way of showing she is smoking. For instance, “I mean, I love space. Black holes and dwarf planets and stars that faded to nothing decades ago but we still can’t see them. Can’t get enough.” (Mad p 116) and then she shows the reader how she uses her smoking in a specific way, Drag, Blow, Calm. The author adds how Mad leaves the conversation while talking about family, and deep talk. This symbolizes how she is distant and she has a hard time telling people how she feels. Her friends like Victor and Baz hate how she smokes and wonder why she does it. She later reveals how she does it to “forget” about her past. The cigarettes symbolize something else when we learn that her uncle was abusive to her after her parents passed away. This changes how the cigarettes now symbolize her way of being tied on to her parents death and her abuse as a kid and why she left, and her only way of relieving that stress is smoking it away. This is why she always wants to

Victor learns what love is and what it means to people and as the story goes on, he realizes all he has are his friends and the people that truly care about him. Victor ends up confessing how he feels to Madelene after showing her where her dad and mom had their first kiss. He learns that his dad would have wanted his mom to move on, which she did. He also learns that