Finishing YDWKYA

Thank God Yaqui Delgado Wants to kick Your Ass had a good ending, kind of. The whole time I was reading, I had a bad feeling that the story was going to end on a bad note. I was so happy to see that Piddy got out of Yaqui’s reach, but to me, it kind of seems like Yaqui still won. Piddy was forced to leave schools and that isn’t right. I think it is good that the school was able to realize what was going on and then take action to help Piddy, but she still kind of lost in the end and had to leave school because of a bully. That didn’t seem entirely right to me. If I was in this situation, I bet I would probably jump at the chance to go back to my old school too, but I wish that we would have seen Yaqui put in her place somehow. Looking back at Lila’s comments to Piddy, however, and I think maybe Piddy did win. She got accepted to McCleary, and seems to be on a much better track than Yaqui. In that way, I guess Piddy won. The book doesn’t tell us, but hopefully Yaqui got expelled, and I really wonder if Piddy and her mom pressed charges. Something that also upset me, was how Piddy still had to live with the trauma of Yaqui’s bullying. She knew she was safe at her old school, yet she found herself always watching out and wondering if Yaqui was going to be around a corner to get her back. That is not a way anyone should have to live. I have to say, all in all, I think I was more pleased with the ending of this book over both E&P and Feed. I enjoyed reading this book, and it might be my favorite of the books we have read in class thus far.

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