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The Role Of Mouth In Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie

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Mouth changed the most in Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie because he went from talkative and being fearless, to being suicidal by the end. Mouth changed the most because at the starting of the book Mouth was the most talkative person their was. That was originally how they introduced Mouth into the book, as this bubbly talkative kid who loved to say the first thing that had popped into his head. "Hey Scottie, watcha think? High school. It’s the big time. Were in high school man, that's so cool. Man, that is so so so cool. That is soooooo cool"(Lubar 8). This quote supports my answer because it shows how excited Mouth was to start the school year. He was bouncing off of the walls about how excited he was that he was in high school with his friends …show more content…

There was a dance at the highschool and Scott decided to go with Lee. When Mouth decided that he wanted to go to the dance he figured that he would have to have a date. So he started to ask girls and they sadly had all declined him. He asked out every single girl in the grade. He kept track just to make sure that he asked everyone. After all of the girls that he has asked none of them said yes. “Mouth was there, too. He got turned down by at least seven girls in the brief time I was watching. I had to give him credit for being resilient. Nothing seemed to bother him. If I asked a girl to dance and she said no, I’d want to crawl into a hole and die”(Lubar 184). The day after the dance had occured Mouth went over to Scott’s house so he would return Scott’s money that he had given to him. “But he didn't ask to come in. “Here,” he said, holding out a couple of dollars. I figured he would spend another fifteen minutes describing the whole event, but he just said “Thanks” and left”(Lubar 195). Scott did not think anything of it. Scott’s thoughts was just that he was going to give him his money and he did not think about all that much the way he was acting. Scott, if anything, was thankful that Mouth came here and left with no complications. Mouth changed the most because if Mouth had have given that money back, and was …show more content…

They believe this because of Scott Hudson’s personality at the starting of the book was that he was almost anxious and panicked to start high school. But towards the end he knew exactly what he was doing and he made friends that he would have not usually make friends with. Also they might have thought that Scott changed the most because his choice in who he wanted to dance with changed from Julia to Lee. Even though he still liked Julia he went to the dance with Lee. He had the choice to go with Julia because she ended up liking Scott, but he still decided to go to the dance with Lee. However, they are wrong because Scott Hudson never really changed that much. The only thing that changed about Scott was who he had a crush on and whether he was anxious about high school or not. In addition, Scott had major personality changes. Therefore, Mouth has changed the most in Sleeping Freshmen Never

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