Blubber by Judy Blume Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Blubber
Book Review: 4 stars
Summary: 4 Stars
The main characters (Bullies) are 5 year olds and the victim was an overweight girl who did a report on whales and didnt know the kids in her class were making fun of her and they were calling her Blubber. In halloween Jill does a prank on someone and when she finds out the person who she had pranked on found out Wendy told her Blubber had told. Jill starts to find out that she and Wendy werent really friends nor was Wendy and Caroline.Book Review: A Challenge for Some Parents
Summary: 4 Stars
Jill is in the fifth grade; she's a good student who talks too much and at the wrong time in class. She's working hard to break her nail-biting habit, and she deplores her younger brother's annoying habit of constantly quoting from the Guinness Book of Records. At school, she follows the lead of the class bully in repeatedly humiliating a chubby classmate, nicknaming her Blubber. Jill and her best friend, Tracy, put rotten eggs in a neighbor's mail box at Halloween because they think he's an old grouch.
Children's books are typically morality tales; that's why we know at the outset that Jill is going to triumph in her struggle with nail-biting, that she is going to develop a loving appreciation of her brother, she will realize the harm of her bullying and apologize and become friends with her besieged classmate, and that she and Tracy will discover their grouchy neighbor is a kind old man who still grieves for the loss of his beloved wife. But that's not what happens.
Maybe it's because Judy Blume's story formula imitates reality, or maybe it's because this story is reality (based on a true incident in her daughter's fifth-grade class), but the story does not unfold as the expected morality tale. Jill does free herself from her unhealthy relationship with Wendy, the class bully, but she chews off all her fingernails in the process. She and Tracy do have to make amends to their grouchy neighbor, and in the process Jill's father discovers that their neighbor really is a mean-spirited child hater. And Jill and the rest of her classmates eventually do stop harassing Linda ("Blubber"), but no one apologizes to the girl who seems always to be wearing a kick-me sign.
Blume's characters take some getting used to -- a mother who sneaks cigarettes while she's trying to stop smoking, a father who yells at the top of his lungs to get obedience, and children who are allowed to use bad language at home, with the off-hand warning that they need to use good sense about using it in public. So maybe the moral in Blume's books is that something is always going wrong and something is always going right, life goes on, and we usually learn something from our mistakes. Whatever her message, children of all ages have been flocking to her books since the first one was published in 1969.
Book Review: A girl that gets made fun of
Summary: 4 Stars
A girl gets made fun of because she is fat in the book. No one likes her and no one hangs around either. Well now two girls get made fun of because of what they done to their math teacher. During halloween they had put six rotten eggs in his mailbox. I felt sorry for the girl when I read the book. I would recommend this book because you would learn not to make fun of people no matter what they look like or how they talk or what kind of clothes they were. One day when they were in music class, that is were they have lunch at, and she was having a peanutt butter and jelly sandwhich the other people were calling her a mommas little babey. Then they started calling here blubber because she said was going on a diet. I like this book because it tell's you not to make fun of kids. Eventhough they are fat or it is because of there clothes. The people that makes fun of people they should stop doing that. In conclusion this is why I choose this book because I don't think kids should be mean to otheres because of what they look like. If you make fun of people I would stop doing that because that could hurt someone.Book Review: A lesson to all people to learn
Summary: 4 Stars
I liked reading this book. I think everyone should read it. It helps to show why people need dignity and compassion towards other beings.Book Review: A literary masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
One cannot even begin to discuss literary masterworks without including this brilliant piece of work. "Blubber" is a sublime, haunting and yet accurate portrayal of America's youth. A book such as "Huckleberry Finn" pales in comparison. The hapless Linda Fischer, dubbed "Blubber" by her cruel classmates, is derided ceaselessly throughout the first half of this tale. Then the tables are turned, and our narrator is the one who is made to look the fool. Woe is me! By the end of this book, the reader is exhausted by the exposure to such coldhearted cruelty, yet exhilerated to know that goodness triumphs over adversity. By reading this book, you will end up not only loving "Blubber", but anyone else who looks the whale!