Angus Essay
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High school can be the most utterly impossible obstacle in life to be faced. In Chris Cutcher's short story, "A brief Moment in the life of Angus Bethune," he shows the entagled, complex difficulties of high school. Angus is a senior, and being named after a cow didn't make his experience in high school more endurable for him. He was troubled in having an abnormal existence in the halls of high school, stammering his homosexual parents, and constantly being teased at his hefty, blimpy appearance. These matters made Angus's occurrence in high school the most appalling, atrocious ever... well... at least he thought so. He had seen him self as a fat kid with perverted parents, who couldn't even get the one girl he's liked since kindergarden to notice his being...