![]() ![]() ![]() A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality study guides that feature detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, quotes, and essay topics. In every chapter, he shows a little bit of his journey toward his career as a comics artist, from trading cartoons with Leslie while she’s in halfway houses to studying in a middle-school comics class to first getting a cartoon published in the paper. Thanks for exploring this SuperSummary Study Guide of Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett Krosoczka. But now that I am in my teens, I fill sketchbooks just to deal with life. ![]() In junior high, I drew to impress my friends. As he describes it, “When I was a kid, I’d draw to get attention from my family. All through the story, Jarrett learns to be the artist who will draw the narrative he’s currently telling in Hey, Kiddo. The constant note in his personality is his love of art. He learns to value loving behavior over blood ties: His grandmother, he decides in the end, is more of a mother to him than his biological mom Leslie ever was. However, he’s also a sweet, regular kid who loves Disneyland and playing with trucks. He has frequent horrific nightmares of monsters and betrayals, which emerge from the frightening unreliability of his mother and the violent tempers of his grandparents. In this moving memoir, a teenage boy grapples with all the problems that arise from an addicted parentand finds a way to survive through his art. As a child, Jarrett is both sweet and troubled. ![]()
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