Saturday, February 02, 2008

Breathing Underwater by Alex Flinn




Why does Nick need to promote the illusion that it was 'just a slap' because Caitlin pushed him too far? Is this the only illusion Nick needs to believe to survive? Why is it important to him that he feels Caitlin is controlling his behavior? Who or what is really manipulating the situation? Is it Nick's tragic flaws of jealousy and suspicion? Is control/abuse a way for him to overcome his feelings of being an outsider? Or does his father as a role model contribute to his feelings that the male must have the power in the relationship at all costs? Start blogging about the Othello theme connections. Once you have read most of the book, you may want to check out the discussion guide for the book. Be careful, it may spoil the book if you read it too soon.

22 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why is nick alway think about her ex girlfriend? What cuase anger to make nick so evil and aggressive? Good thing he taking a anger magnemt class

Anonymous said...

Nick shows what can happen when someone becomes completely out of control. He needs to go to anger management to control his anger or he will turn into a monster. This is the only other option to help himself. No one else can help him, the only person who can is Nick himself.

Anonymous said...

Nick always think of her ex girlfriend because he feels guilty and shame of what he had done to his ex girlfriend. So he wants to make them all up to try to get his girlfriend back.

Anonymous said...

carmonapHENRY2

TO KIMJHENRY2
THE REASON NICK IS ALWAY THINKIN BOUT HIS EX IS BECAUSE HE LOVES HER SO MUCH N IS AFRAID TO LOSE HER. WHAT CAUSES HIS ANGER IS THAT HE CANT CONTROL HIS ACTIONS WHENEVER HE SEES A GUY AROUND HIS EX GIRL BECAUSE HE'S JEALOUS. HE'S MAD BECAUSE HE MESSED UP HIS CHANCE TO CHANGE.

Anonymous said...

this is for grettermhenry2
what happens to nick ex girlfriend and will he get her back? This novel has so many theme that you can learned about his personality.

Anonymous said...

Was Nick feel gulit about what he did to his girlfriend? And i agree to what Gretter said "Nick shows what can happen when someone becomes completely out of control. He needs to go to anger management to control his anger or he will turn into a monster. This is the only other option to help himself. No one else can help him, the only person who can is Nick himself".

Anonymous said...

Do you think that violence can or cannot solve problems? From my point of veiw, if force cannot solve problems, then why some countries start war. I want to know what you think about.

Anonymous said...

Alegrejhenry2
Well i think that Nick is like really obsesed with Caitlin, because he just cant stop thinking about her all of the time, well for my opinion i also think that Caitlin is trying to play mind games with Nick and is pretending to seduce him, because she is always letting Nick touch her and kiss her, i think that Caitlin is the villain in this novel.

Anonymous said...

I short like this book but there is so much werid event going on in the book. So journal entrie freak me out and nick is a disgusting person

Anonymous said...

I know that nick can be weried and why does nick his hand in the wrong places in his ex girlfriend body. Do you think nick is a bad person or a good person.

Anonymous said...

alegrejhenry2
For some reason Nick and his dad never get along, its like there always fighting about something, nicks dad is a man who always gets drunk and use to beat up nick, and with Nicks been abused as a youngster and now as a teenager he is more aggresive and jealou, but i wonder if Caitlin will get back togehter with nick? or will they go there seperate ways? what will hapen?

Anonymous said...

Nick is gradually changing through the journal entries he's writing for the court and anger management class. His intentions of doing this are that he doesnt want to do it but he does it because he wants to prove to a lot of people that in his own ways hes a good kid. But its going to take a lot of work to prove that he is.

Anonymous said...

AlegrejHenry2
Nick should forget about Caitlin because from my point of view i think that Caitlin wont get back with Nick,Caitlin is just playing with Nick, she wants him t o keep begging her to get back with her because she wants to feel important, Nick should find another girl who is better then her.

Anonymous said...

Alegrejhenry2
Should Nick continue taking the anger manangment class? i mean hes not really changing? Does Caitlin like him or not? Is Nick jealous of Tom when he talk to Caitlin? As the storie continues more and more things happen.

Anonymous said...

Caitlin did the right thing by requesting the restraining order on Nick. It shows to everyone that Nick wasnt in his right mind when the incident happened. He tries to say that it was just a slap but he's lying to them and himself. when he does this he thinks he's making things better but he's actually making things worse.

Anonymous said...

Nick streamly feel sorry what he did to his ex girlfriend? And i agree what lov said "Nick always think of her ex girlfriend because he feels guilty and shame of what he had done to his ex girlfriend. So he wants to make them all up to try to get his girlfriend back.

Anonymous said...

Nick had a anger,and it's makes Nick immoral and aggressive? For that he should go to his anger management class to control his anger? And im agree what gretterm said "Nick shows what can happen when someone becomes completely out of control. He needs to go to anger management to control his anger or he will turn into a monster. This is the only other option to help himself. No one else can help him, the only person who can is Nick himself.

Anonymous said...

Nick is showing that he's doing his job by writing in his journal every week. It seems he's meeting the requirements for his anger management class and the court by doing his journal. If he keeps this up, he could be let off from the court and maybe get out of his anger management class.

Anonymous said...

alegrejhenry2
Does tom like caitlin? because It seems that he usually talks about her, tom asked nick one time if he was going to get back to her and nick started suspecting from there that he likes her, althought it is not really proven throughout the story it looks like he has a crush on caitlin.

Anonymous said...

i think in the story of "Breathing Underwater". Almost every boy in the school like Catilin, because she is pretty and so she is precious to some of the boys in the school.

Anonymous said...

alegrejhenry2
is nick obsesed with caitlin? because he is always talking about her, in his anger managment he should talk about his problem, like with his obsesion on her. caitlin should go to another school so she won't have any more problems with nick and tom, if she left there wouldn't be anymore problems.

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