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material, especially Stuart. Sook also had difficulty in interacting with both father and mother. She only had Gaia, who she never thought willingly to be her friend. .
3.3.3.4 Stuart
Fats popularity was not a joke. He was so cool that he didn’t care what clique or gang others belong to, he can relate to them just as he was. He was lack
of empathy for others, especially for Sukvinder whom he was hurting. He was pre-eminently and uniquely himself: Fats, school notable and
landmark, and even the Fielders laughed at his jokes, and rarely bothered –
so coolly and cruelly did he return jibes – to laugh at his unfortunate
connections.p.31
3.3.4 Way of Expressing Emotion
3.3.4.1 Krystal
Krystal couldn’t express her feeling openly. Krystal liked to take things that didn’t belong to her, preferably things that belonged to significant person in
Krystals life. When she was sad or angry Krystal liked swearing, smoking, quarreling with other students, bickering with her mom and making sex with
random guys to relieve her stress . Although she had tough exterior, Krystal was soft inside, she was indeed sad after hearing that Mr Barry who gave her courage
and warm along this time was dead.
Suddenly, stubby fingers were rubbing the smeary eyes. Tessa pulled a wad of tissues from out of her desk drawer and handed them across to Krystal,
who grabbed them without thanks, pressed them to each eye and blew her nose. Krystal’s hands were the most touching part of her: the fingernails
were short and broad, untidily painted, and all her hand movements were as naive and direct as a small child’s. p.48
3.3.4.2 Andrew
Andrew deemed that it was unsafe to confront his father outwardly, so he endured his father abuses in silence. Andrew felt free to mock his father in his and
Fat’s hidden place, called Chubby Hole. There he took a drug and smoked to relieve his burden.
“Sensimilla, that is” “What is it?”
“Tips and shoots of your basic unfertilized marijuana plant,” said Fats, “specially prepared for your smoking pleasure”.p.193
3.3.4.3 Sukhvinder
Sukhvinder couldn’t tell her parents that she was suffering from Fat’s bullying. She was also not given a change to say what her thought was or to make
an explanation when her mother mistook something about her. She became quite
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and self- harmer teenager. She thought that she could replace her deep emotional pain with physical pain by cutting herself .
After a minute or two, she cut again, horizontally, across the first incision, making a ladder, pausing to press and to mop as she went. The blade drew
the pain away from her screaming thoughts and transmuted it into animal burning of nerves and skin: relief and release in every cut. p. 167
3.3.4.4 Stuart
