Cutting Class

Cutting Class

Cutting Class begins with P.B. initials short for PonyBoy, named after<br />the famous book that his mother was once obsessed with. P.B. is very<br />angry, and partly blames this on his father having been in prison for<br />P.B.'s entire life. His mother refuses to talk about why his father is<br />in prison for murder, an act that his father committed when he was 18,<br />the age that P.B. will soon be, so P.B. finds his mother's journals from<br /> when she was 15 and begins to read them in hopes that it will help him<br />understand how he ended up a fatherless kid. The journals portray the<br />tragic love story of his unpopular parents in the public school system,<br />where his mother is a loner who talks to no one, and his father is a<br />cute book worm who all the girls fawn over, but who has an angry side<br />that is soon pushed to its limits by the high school football team. P.B.<br /> is nothing like his father, he is in fact a star member of his schools<br />football team and quite popular, at least until he starts pursuing<br />Pixie, the school token "weird girl". Maybe father and son are not that<br />different.