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\"Your dad's idea,\" she explained. \"He named you Wade because it literally means 'the advancer.' He figured he'd give you a head start. So if you want to start sitting at the adult table, then start behaving like an adult. Help me with this cooler and don't tease your cousins anymore.\" Wade looked for his dog in case he'd been captured and couldn't escape. It wasn't hard to find the 150-pound Bernese mountain dog. \"Shredder. SHREDDER!\" Wade called, but Shredder had already found the waterhole and lowered his woolly mammoth body till he was lying in a foot of pond scum. One kid was sitting on top of him holding onto his collar and splashing his feet. Another was facing Shredder holding his shirt down so the dog could lick chocolate off it. Traitor, Wade thought. Shredder definitely wouldn't be moving up to the adult table. He'd always liked kids; he just had something personal against paper. \"Hey, big guy luggin' that refrigerator with handles!\" Uncle Angus yelled at Wade. \"Do ya need any help? Of course ya don't! just look at the size of laddie's guns!\" Angus laughed and gripped Wade's biceps as he put the cooler under a table. Wade braced himself for the hug that he knew could squeeze the life out of Loch Nessie. \"When you get bigger legs, I'll buy you a proper kilt. Right now you'd make it look like a tennis skirt. And you'll see no Scots at Wimbledon!\" Angus said as he released him. \"Sure,\" Wade choked.
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More Than You Can Chew
Lily plays a pivotal role as the one character who breaks through [Marty]'s tough shell. When Marty takes the little girl under her wing and tries to nurture her back to health, she is symbolically looking after the little girl inside herself who wants to be loved and noticed. Lily's death coincides with Marty's suicide attempt, and it is a turning point in the book. Marty realizes that all the love she pours on Lily cannot change the outcome. Marty resolves to love herself and not rely on others to save her. In a way, Lily's death is symbolic of the death of Marty's eating disorder. Similarly, the characters are cleverly drawn with sarcastic humour, but they're not forgive the pun fully fleshed out. Marty's fellow patients are so cartoonish that no reader at risk of an eating disorder would recognize themselves in any of them. Marty's boyfriend Zack should be a major character, yet he only appears at the beginning and is then tacked on in a scene towards the end. My visual image of Marty's parents keeps on changing as the novel progresses. This may be intentional to show how Marty's view of them changes over time, but it jars the reader out of the story. Also, there is an allusion to sexual abuse as the novel opens, but this is never developed. The novel would be stronger with fewer day to day anecdotes of treatment and more time spent on Marty's life prior to and following treatment.
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