Fat, four-eyed and useless
This task is about using evidence to make inferences about a character.
The text below comes from Fat, Four-eyed and Useless by David Hill.
Read the text below to answer questions a)-f)
WEDNESDAY
I've written a poem for tomorrow's Writers Group meeting. I rang up Kim, and he's writing something he reckons you call a 'soliloquy'. Never heard of it–but I bet snobby Emma Jensen has. I left something out yesterday. I'll write it down now. I've decided Mum and Dad aren't going to read this journal after all.
Why: I joined the Writers Group for other reasons, too.
- Because if you don't like sport, there's nothing else to do at lunchtime in winter.
- Because there's these couple of Form 2 guys who give Kim and me a hard time. Athol Maxwell hangs around with them. He's good at games and classwork and the girls all reckon he's spunky. Sux! Anyway, these two other guys say "G'day, 8-eyes!" or "Jeez, it's Kim and Ben, the Mini-Men!", or they grab you and grind their knuckles into your arm. It hurts and I always end up yelling. We go to the library to keep away from them.
- Because I'm useless at everything else.
Yeah, that's also why I joined. I feel better after writing it down.