Outside Reading Q1, blog 3

Wasted & The 400 Blows

This book can be related to many pieces of literature that we have studied in class. One piece that is most similar is The 400 Blows. The 400 Blows and Wasted are alike when it comes to their main characters. In the movie, Antoine asks his mom if he can not go to school, and just make a living on his own. Marya experiences this same drive, but its when she wants to go to boarding school and never come back. She shares this by saying, "I imagined calling my parents from school, casually telling them of my grand accomplishments," (88). This reveals that the two main characters both want to prove themselves to their families, and to themselves.

Also, Marya and Antoine are similar because they both do drugs and drink alcohol. Antoine does drugs twice in the movie The 400 Blows, once when he is with his friend Renee and another time when he was in the jail cell. Also, Antoine drinks when he is with Renee. Marya gets into drinking and drugs in high school. She comes clean when she says, "I'd stumbled high and drunk through and out of ninth grade." (88). This shows how similar these two characters are. They both want control over their lives, and want their parents to stay out of it a majority of it. Also, they both go to drugs and alcohol even though they are underage because it can solve their problems for that moment.

Another way these two characters are similar is because they both do continuous rebellious acts to get themselves into trouble and corrupt their families. Antoine does this when he runs away from home and tries to steal the typewriter. This causes his parents to fight, and they don't want anything to do with him anymore. Marya does this when she gets involved into bad things (drugs, alcohol, and sex). Her parents get exhausted with her wrong doings, and it makes the family fight. In conclusion, these two main characters have many aspects in common.