Butter (book pitch van docent)

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo t, mavo, havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 3,4

As soon as Butter makes a website saying he is going to kill himself, it becomes impossible for him to take it back. 

• What would his classmates and newly found friends think? 
• They would call him a coward and he would lose his recently grown popularity at school. 
• So for him there is no way out. 
• But what about those so-called friends around him? 
• What is his life worth to them?
  

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Characters

Butter - obese, diabetic, social outcast, plays saxophone, sarcastic, sympathetic, straightforward.

Anna - love interest, most popular of the school, genuine, caring, beautiful

Friends 

Tucker - amicable, determined, knows Butter from fat camp

The Professor – music teacher, finds Butter a brilliant saxophone player

Parents 

Mother - worries too much, overfeeds, overprotective.

Father - stopped talking to Butter, stern.

Nickname 'Butter'

Butter got his nickname because

 a group of bullies forced him to 

eat a stick of butter 

a few years ago. 

The music teacher however says ‘he plays as smooth as butter’.

“Is popularity changing him”?

Stijlvoorbeelden

uit de 'Butter pitch'

1. In-your-face
   
2. cheerleaders rallying

The aftermath

A lonely obese boy is going to eat himself to death during a live stream on the internet. Everyone is invited to watch.
He doesn’t expect cheerleaders rallying around his deadly plan. Yet as their dark

encouragement grows, it begins to feel a lot like popularity. 

1. deadly plan
   
2. young adult
   
3. dark encouragement
   
4. suicidal deadline

Oxymoron opposites

Oxymorons are often surprising in that the contradiction illustrates some wisdom or unexpected truth. This may be done deliberately to put over a message or create some other dramatic effect.

  

Oxymorons can also be used to create confusion, and so grab attention, distract the listener or give a moment of inattention in which persuasive words may be added.

Every text is intended to affect its readers in some way.

 

The purpose of persuasive language can be:

• To persuade us to buy products

• To persuade us to give to charitable causes

• To persuade us to agree with the speaker’s point of view

• In stories, to persuade us to like or dislike a character (or a book)