Shattering Glass 1-100

Simon Glass is a very unpopular student. He’s a nerd and everyone picks on him, especially Lance, who was the most popular guy in school. That is, until Rob transferred in. Pretty much everyone liked Rob. However, the reader gets the idea that Rob’s not as “perfect” as he’s made out to be. Rob rules the school, and he wants to see how much power he truly has. He wants to turn Glass into a popular guy with the help of his posse; Young, Coop, and Bob. Young, the narrator, is a really good, friendly guy. Coop has a tough home life, and he’s not real smart. He’s afraid he’s just going to turn into a jobless alcoholic like his dad. It doesn’t tell a whole lot about Bob, but you know that’s he’s quite the ladies’ man. They start to sit by Glass at lunch and take him shopping to get some decent clothes. They work with him so he can lose some weight, and they take him to the beach. Glass’s parents don’t really care about him that much, and he hardly ever sees them. Young has some troubles at home, too. He wants to take a creative writing class, but his dad is dead set on him becoming a doctor someday. Young nearly threw up dissecting frogs in class, and he doesn’t want to be a doctor, so he dropped biology class for a creative writing class. His dad, however, made him transfer back in. Young is upset about not being able to take his creative writing class, so Glass hacks into the school system to make it look, to Young’s dad, like he’s in biology, while he’s actually in creative writing. Young also has a huge crush on Ronna, one of the girls from his school. When hacking into the school system, Glass and Young found that Rob is not who he says he is. He told them his name was “Robert Haynes”, but in the school system, it’s “Robbert Baddeck”. He also told them when he moved there that he was from some out of state town, but the system said he transferred from a town a few miles down the road. Glass started to be the guy in the mascot outfit at football games, and people were really intrigued by him, but nobody knew who he was. They planned to “Unveil the Wolverine” at Homecoming, which Rob insists is the most important part of making Glass popular. Young ends up going to Homecoming with Ronna.