butter by erin jade lange chapter summaries

I cannot imagine what I must have looked like while I was reading this one. I was sad for Butter at times, and then I would get so angry at him, and then I would actually pity him, and then I would cringe at the things he would do or what he would eat. There was so much tension throughout the book, but the tension was for different reasons at different parts of the story. Oh no! What if I can’t go through with it? Will everyone still think I’m cool?īutter by Erin Jade Lange had me in absolute knots all the way through. Nobody else has the guts to do what I’m about to do! Then he feels fear. Why isn’t someone helping me if they know I’m going to kill myself? Why are they excited? Then he feels kind of cocky about it. He is talked to in the hallways and invited to hang out after school and during lunch.

While he isn’t really sure what he was expecting the outcome of his announcement to actually be, Butter cannot believe what happens after he posts his declaration: Butter becomes an overnight sensation, a sudden popular guy. This is when he sets up a website and decides to eat himself to death and broadcast it for everyone to watch – if they can stand to watch it. Then, to top everything off, he finds out that he is being bullied online. When Butter notices that his only friend – who is also overweight – has started dropping pounds and getting healthy, Butter starts eating. Occasionally, he’ll gather up some gumption and decide to lose weight, but this usually only last a short while before he’s back at the big meals and snacks again. So much so that he hides away from everyone, preferring not to stand out rather than to make friends and enjoy his life.īutter is insecure about most everything. He is sure that his size is what everyone notices first. Why is this a problem? Besides the obvious health risk, Butter kind of hides behind his weight.

His problem is that he weighs over 400 pounds. He’s smart and he can play the hell out of a saxophone.

Butter by erin jade lange chapter summaries