In our last session Mia and I finished the book, we discussed the overall ending of the book. It was amazing and good that Luther realized the wrong actions of his mom. It was shocking how the Sarge was able to kick him out of the house due to his science fair project. Instead of being proud of him she was angry at him for provoking an issue for her.

We discussed about the overall theme of the book being that those around us can influence us but, it is up to us to let them do so. Luther is controlled by many incuding the Sarge and Darnell. I think that sometimes those that are closest to us can be controlling of our lives. I experienced this and it is surprising how you don’t realize it as much until you had enough like Luther did.

Sometimes we have to be the bigger person, realize the bad influences, and stay away from it even if it can be family.