Breathing Underwater book ?

Question

Can anyone please sum up the book for me i have this test tomorrow and i have lost the book so if anyone can sum it up for me it be great thanks.

Answer 1

The breathing underwater book- i am a book , you don't loose me , you read me .  

Answer 2

Oooooh! Good book! Very, umm, detailed I guess. Sad book.

Anyways, here's my quick summary.

Book starts at court where the boy is charged for abuse I think. The judge sentences him to an anger management class. In that class, they make him write since he first met Caitlin. That takes up most of the book- him talking about it. At first everything is great until the day he slaps her in the car one day. Then it gets worse from there. He says he loves her and they have s*x(not right after he slapped her though!) Eventually he beats her up really, REALLY bad and she leaves him and that's basically it.

Fantastic story!

Answer 3

It was only a slap. Well, maybe more than one. And maybe Nick used his fist at the end when the anger got out of control. But his girlfriend Caitlin deserved it--hadn't she defied him by singing in the school talent show when he had forbidden her to display herself like that? Even though he'd told her that everybody would laugh at her because she couldn't sing and was a fat slob? Both were lies. Because Caitlin was so beautiful, the only person who understood him. Out of his desperate need for her came all the mean words and the hitting. But now Caitlin's family has procured a restraining order to keep Nick away, and the judge has sentenced him to Mario Ortega's Family Violence class, to sit around every week with six other angry guys who hit their girlfriends. And to write a journal explaining how he got into this mess.

Other teen novels--most strikingly Dreamland by Sarah Dessen--have shown dating violence from the point of view of a young girl trapped in an abusive relationship, but in Breathing Underwater, first-time novelist Alex Flinn tackles the difficult task of making us understand, if not sympathize with, the motivation of a violent young man. The story, like Rob Thomas's stylistically similar Rats Saw God, proceeds in two different time frames: the journal in which Nick relives the course of his tender but stormy love affair with Caitlin and the time after the restraining order, in which a desperate and friendless Nick struggles to understand and overcome his anger. This extraordinarily moving novel is highly relevant reading for all young men in our violence-prone society.

That's what I found on Amazon.com.

This was on wikipedia:

The story of 16-year-old Nicholas Andreas, a wealthy Miami teen who is sent to anger management because his girlfriend, Caitlin, takes out a restraining order against him. Ordered by the judge to write about his relationship, Nick tells of falling in love with her, and the eventual time when his anger took over. The book is set in Miami and Key West, Florida.