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Making rules. As if that's something Bradley Gold wants to get involved in. If it weren't for his buddy, Coll, who roped him into adding his "student input" to Roblin High's new code of conduct, there's no way Brad would have been within ten miles of the parents' committee meeting that turns him into an unwilling activist. With high humor and exquisite farce, Perry Nodelman reveals a side-splitting view of high school law and order.
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"This first person account of life in a 1990s high school is dead-on accurate". -- VOYA
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The Comedy, the Satire, and the Reality of Behaving Bradley
Behaving Bradley is a satiric farce, with a certain amount of exaggeration and stretching of the truth for the sake of the comedy. Or is it? Some people I know who are familiar with life in high schools tell me there's no exaggeration at all--that the people in the schools they know often behave at least as badly and even as humorously as the characters in the book do. And my daughter Alice, upon some events in whose life the book is very loosely based, tells me that the school in the book in a much nicer place than the actual high school she herself attended--and that what really happened to her was much more nightmarish than what happens to Bradley. Bradley, who tells his own story, has a keen eye for all the ways in which the people around him (especially the adults) fail to live up to the standards they claim to live by, and since he tells the story as he sees it, the book might seem to some readers be a little cynical and negative. But I don't think it is. Perceptive readers will realize how often Brad's perceptions of things are distorted by his own feelings of inadequacy, that they are never quite the whole story. And he himself often realizes just how implicated he himself is in the human condition, how he too is often less noble than he might like to think he is, how the inevitable failure of all of us human beings to live up to our own ideals does not mean that they are wrong ideals or that we should not always keep on trying to live up to them. That I see as true and positive, and not cynical at all.
Behaving Bradley is a satiric farce, with a certain amount of exaggeration and stretching of the truth for the sake of the comedy. Or is it? Some people I know who are familiar with life in high schools tell me there's no exaggeration at all--that the people in the schools they know often behave at least as badly and even as humorously as the characters in the book do. And my daughter Alice, upon some events in whose life the book is very loosely based, tells me that the school in the book in a much nicer place than the actual high school she herself attended--and that what really happened to her was much more nightmarish than what happens to Bradley. Bradley, who tells his own story, has a keen eye for all the ways in which the people around him (especially the adults) fail to live up to the standards they claim to live by, and since he tells the story as he sees it, the book might seem to some readers be a little cynical and negative. But I don't think it is. Perceptive readers will realize how often Brad's perceptions of things are distorted by his own feelings of inadequacy, that they are never quite the whole story. And he himself often realizes just how implicated he himself is in the human condition, how he too is often less noble than he might like to think he is, how the inevitable failure of all of us human beings to live up to our own ideals does not mean that they are wrong ideals or that we should not always keep on trying to live up to them. That I see as true and positive, and not cynical at all.
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- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0613229681
- ISBN 13 9780613229685
- BindingLibrary Binding
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