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Okay For Now Book Report

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In Okay For Now, written by Gary D. Schmidt, he wrote about certain people who talk about their rough times, and they say okay for now because things could always get worse. In the book, the characters best for the topic is Doug, Lil, and Lucas. They all struggle with something, but they keep it to themselves for the most part. Okay For Now means the characters feel good and Doug, Lil, and Lucas all feel okay at the moment.

Doug, he is a very exciting character to watch develop into such a great young man. Doug’s family just moved to the city Marysville. He absolutely does not like it at all. When they get settled in, his life begins to go on a rocky journey. He will not let anybody in. Doug has bad behavior during school, he gets into trouble almost everyday, he altogether fights with other kids because they all now know about the tattoo on his side, and so he happens to be embarrassed. Everybody teases him just because he has a tattoo that says, “Mama's boy”. The teachers help him out with his reading. Now the teachers are helping him he does start to accept the fact about people knowing about his tattoo. Hardly anyone says anything about the tattoo now. People around him can tell he has been changing. He will get used to living here in Marysville. He always hangs around Lil. As of lately he goes to the library every Saturday with Lil and Mr. Powell, so they can work on their drawings of the birds. He makes sure to not let his dad’s meanness …show more content…

Doug is okay for now since he likes Marysville now. Lil is also okay for now even though she has been in the hospital because she knows that she can battle through cancer. Okay For Now happens to explain Lucas because he has a job, his eyes heal, and he is happy with where his life is taking him now although he still has to make some progress. The characters feel okay for now, and they will always eventually be okay for

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