Literary analysis
Travis, the main character in the story, is the main character of the story and lives and normal teenage life. Living in a trailer park, canoeing, and playing basketball. His background how ever is not as normal as most teenagers would have it. In the story, he lives with a grandma who has been diagnosed with cancer and a grandpa who has an addiction to smoking and watching baseball on TV. His mom, who is only talked about in the book, has a severe addiction to heroin and apparently hasn't seen her son in a few months(pg 1-50). Natalie is another character that would show up from time to time and would soon become Travis' girlfriend (pg 135). She is described in the book having black hair, dark eyes, and is also very athletic. Then theirs one more character in the story who happens to be Travis' best friend. His basketball name is Creature and specking of basketball, he also plays the sport with Travis but in a more competitive way. Just another average teenager would unfortunately have his life cut short at the end of the book (pg 320).
The setting of the book takes place in the woods by a lake where Travis was chasing a pair of small alligators, he unfortunately wasn't able to hang on to them and they would escape into the woods. Little did he know that they would be back to haunt the trailer park. Later Travis would meet the love of his life and little did he know as well that she loved him at first sight too. Travis and Creature would go through many different scenarios together involving basketball...and also not. Toward the end of the book Creature would get stabbed and meet an tragic end to his young life. The book would end with the last article of A Perverts Guide to the Russian Princess (pg 320).
The setting of the book takes place in the woods by a lake where Travis was chasing a pair of small alligators, he unfortunately wasn't able to hang on to them and they would escape into the woods. Little did he know that they would be back to haunt the trailer park. Later Travis would meet the love of his life and little did he know as well that she loved him at first sight too. Travis and Creature would go through many different scenarios together involving basketball...and also not. Toward the end of the book Creature would get stabbed and meet an tragic end to his young life. The book would end with the last article of A Perverts Guide to the Russian Princess (pg 320).