Butter, by Erin Jade Lange, was an inspiring book and it is one of a kind. Butter was an extremely inspiring book about a boy, nicknamed Butter, that can no longer live with being overweight, and plans on New Year’s Eve to eat himself to death. However, as New Year’s Eve gets closer and closer, Butter begins to become more and more popular in school, and he starts to question whether he should go through with it. Butter all in all has helped me understand that sometimes even though the task seems unreachable, you still have to be able to believe in yourself, because every task is achievable.
Butter was really a person that did not believe in himself, and this is really why he became overweight and stayed overweight. As it was proven at the end of the story when Butter was told “you weigh 372 pounds.”(Lange 279), he really should’ve believed in himself all through out because he was able to cut down to 372 pounds after being 423 pounds. Even at the time in the hospital, he still distrusted himself, and said “No, that’s wrong. I was 409 at my last weigh-in.” Though there was some shock factored into this reaction, you can clearly tell Butter up until that point didn’t want to believe that he could cut down…show more content… I think the saxophone represented the life of “SaxMan” Butter was living. In the book, Butter seems to live two lives, one being a quiet overweight guy in high school, the other on the internet, known as “SaxMan”, where he would talk to his crush, Anna. As Butter gets more popular, he beings to less play his saxophone, which concerns his mother enough to go into his own room, where she then says “‘You haven’t played in weeks,’”(Lange 185). Clearly, the saxophone represents his life as “SaxMan”, and as he gets more popular and spends more time as Butter, he plays his saxophone significantly less, meaning he is not living his life as “SaxMan” as
