Summary og the book Slam

SLAM

Slam is a book written mostly for the young people in the world. The book is a lot about making the right decisions and how we have to choose the right path to shape our lives. Sam is a sixteen years old boy and until now there is one thing he has devoted he’s life to, and that’s skateboarding. His big hero and role model is the world’s best skateboarder, Tony Hawk. Well, definitely from Sam’s view. He treats the big poster on his wall with Hawk on it, like it would be him in person. He talks to him and goes to the poster when he needs an advice. One of the reasons for this is his relationship with his father. They haven’t talked to each other after he divorced Sam’s mom. So the readers don’t get too know a lot about Sam’s father.
Sam’s life is just ok, not bad but just good enough.

So when he meets beautiful Alicia, it all starts to go downhill. She totally disrespects him in the beginning but she finds Sam attractive after a little while and they are starting to go out. One or two dates and they’re both ready to have sex. They feel slightly pressured as well so they do it, a couple of times actually. But after a while they get bored and put the relationship to an end.

After some time he meets Alicia at his own birthday party. And that’s when she breaks the big news. She’s pregnant and she won’t take abortion. The same night he has a dream of the two of them and the baby living at Alicia’s parent’s house. Alicia is grumpy and not very attractive anymore.
All this mess is just too much for the young boy. And just to rub it in even more, Sam’s mother were sixteen when she got him. So after the dream he takes off to a place called Hastings. But after some weeks in Hastings, and finally getting a job, he comes back. They tell Alicia’s parents and then they all go gathered to Sam’s house. Sam’s mother is shocked and says that Sam will ruin his life.
One night Sam gets another dream where he had to take the baby to the doctor. He’s being told that the baby is sick because of his lack of love to it and knowledge to be a father and that’s where the dream ends.
After sleeping in Alicia’s house for a couple of days, he feel he’s not wanted there, so he moves out.
Obviously some years later he wakes up a lot older and with a beautiful girl he doesn’t know who is, but he puts two and two pieces together and soon figures out that she is his new girlfriend. Then he meets his old girlfriend Alicia and her boyfriend and finds out that the story is really this; Alicia got the baby, she provided everything the baby needed and they both had lived on with their lives as good friends.
In the end it’s all about taking responsibility for your own actions that everyone can relate to. Everyone has to learn it eventually and this book is therefore very good. It relates and reaches out to all of it’s readers. It’s a good book about something that just as well might be real story.