The continuing of "Going Home"

What happened after Vingo came home to his wife and children?

When Vingo walked of the bus he was so nervous. He stood a long time outside in the garden wondering if there was somebody home. It was so quiet. The children always used to play in the garden, but now it wasn’t a toy to see. Vingo just stood there thinking; “Well my oldest son is 17 years, and my only girl is 15 years and my little boy is now 10 years. So they maybe don’t play outside in the garden anymore?” Vingo maybe stood outside in the garden on the same place for about 15 minutes before something happen. Out the front door came a beautiful woman. She had a beautiful dress on with flowers in every color. Her hair was dark brown, and he could see her beautiful dark eyes from the garden. Vingo was speechless; he just stood there gaping with his mouth. The woman started to run to Vingo and right in his arms. This beautiful woman was his wife. She started to cry when Vingo took his arms around her and kissed her in the forehead, Vingo started to cry too. He didn’t expect this kind of homecoming. After Vingo and his wife had stood there for a wild, his children came running out the front door. They had really grown up now, wow! It was only Samatha, his daughter, who cried. Lucas and Nathan was boys, and they shouldn’t cry, but Vingo could see that they had a tears in their eyes when he hugged them. To Vingo’s big surprise it seemed like they had really missed him, this was better than his dreams and his expectations! They realy didn’t say a word before they sat down and started to eat a delicious dinner that Lucy and Samatha had made. After the dinner they got dessert. It was the two boys who had made this. Vingo hadn’t eaten good food on a very long time. Prison food stinks and it isn’t good!

The first two weeks it was a little bit strange. Vingo didn’t felt home before he had got used to all the routines in the house. And he got a job, a good one too! The children hadn’t asked Vingo where he has been all this time. Maybe Lucy had told them? They were one happy family now. They laugh with the table and watched TV together every evening with popcorn. Every Sunday they had to visit Lucy’s parents. They seemed very happy to see Vingo. Vingo thought that they would tell Lucy that she was so stupid to take him back. But do they know what he had done? They didn’t ask eider.

After some few weeks Vingo felt that he had to ask Lucy why everyone was so happy to see him, and why they didn’t ask him where he had been. Lucy told him that she had told them where he has been and why. So you properly wonder why he has been in jail. Well, for some few years ago his wife struggled. She used drugs, drank every day and she was just a mess. On that time it was only Vingo that worked, Lucy got fired when she came drunk on work one day. They didn’t have enough money for this. Vingo worked overtime as much as he could, but still they didn’t have enough money. They hadn’t enough money to send Lucy to rehab, and they didn’t have enough money to get food. Vingo had some few friends that well.. They were criminals. They could help him to rob a store or something. They planned for weeks, but Vingo had to do it alone because they had family now and they wouldn’t get in trouble. The plan didn’t work out, as you all know he went to jail. So Lucy had gilt and wanted to do something back to Vingo that she loved so much. She told the children, every neighbor and friends, including her parents. They thought that Vingo was a strong man, and they had all respect for him. He did what every husband would do. He did something to help his wife and his children.

Vingo and his family lived happy together since this. Vingo and Lucy had good jobs until they got retirement, but they had a lot of money to live the rest of their lives without any concerns. They paid for all the three children’s educations. Samatha got a husband and three lovely boys. She also got a killer job; she is a very good and paid lawyer. Lucas got a wife and two girls and one boy. He owns his own company. Nathan got a wife, he has a son, and they are expecting twins to the summer. He owns the company together with his brother Lucas.

Book-Review: "SLAM" by Nick Hornby

Sam is a nice boy who lives with his mum. They live in this little apartment, but the apartment is a nice place to live think Sam. Sam’s mum and dad got Sam when they were only sixteen years old. After they got married they split up, they couldn’t stand each other’s face. Sam loves to skate, not ice skating, but skateboarding in the park. When Sam started to skate he got this Tony Hawk poster of is mum. The poster hangs over his bed in their apartment. When Sam has something on his hart that he would like to talk about, he just talks to the Tony Hawk poster. He has also read the book about Tony Hawk’s life, about five or six times, and he has all the pages and words from the book in his head. When Sam went from fifteen to sixteen he got a girlfriend. She named Alicia, and they were together every single day, and they loved it. They had sex too. Alicia was a beautiful girl, and she loved Sam so much. After some few months Sam got bored with just being around Alicia all the time, so Sam broke up with her. Alicia was heartbroken. She cried, but Sam agreed with himself that this was the only right thing to do. Not long after they had split up Alicia wanted to meat Sam, she had something to tell him, something very important. Sam had made up an idea what Alicia was going to tell him, but he was hoping for the best of course. The little idea that Sam had made up in his mind was not wrong. Alicia was pregnant, and Sam was the father of the baby. Sam was going to be a parent in the age of sixteen, just like his mum and dad. This wasn’t how his life supposes to be, being a father in the age of sixteen. Sam got panic and ran away from home to Hastings, only for a night, but his mum was worried to death. Sam came back home because he had homesickness. When he came back, Alicia had tried to contact Sam, but Sam had thrown his mobile phone in the sea in Hastings. He contacted Alicia when he came home. They told Alicia’s parents about the pregnancy first. Alicia’s parents got very mad, and went home to Sam’s mum and told her what he had done to their daughter, of course it was Sam foul all of this. Sam’s mum wasn’t happy about this. After waiting in nine months Alicia got a boy, and they called him Rufus. Sam lived with them a little wild, he and Alicia got together again, and Sam went to collage again. After a wild he moved out, and he never moved back. One thing that Sam was very worried about was that he didn’t want to lose the contact with his son, only Alicia could stop him from that, and she didn’t. They never went together again. In one dream Sam had, where he was thrown in the future, he got a new girlfriend, and Alicia had got a new boyfriend. Sam’s mum got a baby too, a little girl with Mark, only a year after Rufus was born.
Theme:
This book is about being teenage parents. All the challenged you meet when you get a little baby in the age of sixteen. What are you going to do? How can you live with this? How are you going to take care of the baby and yourself? The book is also about love and relationships. When you get a baby with someone in the age of sixteen, how are you going to live? Are you supposed to live the rest of your life with this person, and if you not are going to live with him or her, are you going to be friends for the baby’s best, or enemies just because he or she didn’t want to live with you? Think about the baby’s best first, then after that you can start to think about yourself. Sam and Alicia consider the situation like this. They handle the situation very well, they ended up being just friends, and that’s good. It’s not good to be in a relationship if you don’t love the other person, you only trick yourself, and the partner gets heartbroken when he or she finds it out.

I think that “SLAM” is a book for teenagers in the age 13-19. Because the book is about teenagers parents, and Sam who is the main character is 16 years. We are meeting Sam’s problem not only with his girlfriend, Alicia, but also his problems with his mum and dad, and problems from school that is usual when you are a teenager. Adults’ people can also read this book, but I’m afraid that it is a little bit boring for them. I mean when Alicia and Sam told their parents that she were pregnant, an adult person know how he or she should respond. So I think that this book is only for teenagers.
I really liked this book a lot. It is so real, and the book is about Sam and Alicia who is about my age when they get into this huge problem. When I say that the book is so real I mean that Nick Hornby has brought all the problems that a teenager can meet, and how they can work things out. The way Hornby tells us all the time what Sam is thinking and what he would like to do or answer, all that is so real. Many teenager boys maybe feel that they are in the same situation, and think that they are not the only one with this huge problem, many teenager boys have it just like them. The book is a very directly book, everything that Sam is thinking and how he does it is so directly described, everything is so perfectly described, just like that! When he describe a thing it is just like that, you can’t see it interpret it another way, only how he has describe it! Not a line or word too much, just a perfect describable book. I enjoyed reading this book, but I didn’t like the ending of the book. A perfect ending would be that Sam and Alicia went back together and married, and lived the rest of their life together happy with Rufus and their other babies. I didn’t like that he were thrown into the future, and that he got another girlfriend, and Alicia another boyfriend. Sam and Alicia are made for each other!