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Someone Is Watching.
Someone Knows. It was a nightmare come true for
seventeen year old Ethan. It's hard hiding a secret.
It's even harder keeping that secret when someone else
knows. Who is the mysterious note-writer, the secret
tormentor? Who is the enemy that hides among Ethan's
friends and teammates? Who holds Ethan's secret over his
head, threatening to destroy his entire world?
Someone Is Watching is the story of a young high school
wrestler who must come to terms with being gay. He
struggles first with himself, then with an unknown
classmate that hounds his every step. While struggling
to discover the identity of his tormentor, Ethan must
discover his own identity and learn to live his life as
his true self. He must choose whether to give up what he
wants the most, or face his greatest fear of all.
Thoughts about
Someone Is Watching:
Someone Is Watching is
actually four stories in one. It is the story of Ethan
and his love for his best friend Jon, the story of Ethan
learning to live his life as a gay boy, the story of the
developing relationship between Ethan and Nathan, and
the story of Ethan being tormented and blackmailed by a
straight boy.
On the surface, the main tale seems to be how Ethan
deals with is secret tormentor, but the story is really
more about Ethan learning to live as his true self.
Every gay boy fights this battle at one point or another
in his life, and it is a difficult one. Someone Is
Watching is meant to give gay youth an idea of what the
process is for someone else. The book also has something
to say about how our society uses the sexual orientation
of gays against us. Ethan is blackmailed because he has
a secret he feels he must keep. He feels the need to
keep this secret however because of the way he knows he
will be treated if it is revealed. Our society is more
responsible for the blackmail and oppression than the
blackmailer himself, because it is our society that
creates the problem. assistance.
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