Maxwell is 12 years old and it seems to him that everything in his life is wrong: his parents are constantly arguing, his older sister is a bore and a nerd, he has problems at school, and his best friend is a jerk. But the worst thing is that Maxwell himself makes the situation worse: he is rude to his parents, provokes his friend, gets on the nerves of his teachers, and plays dirty tricks on his neighbor.
He drives himself deeper and deeper into a pile of problems with some kind of desperate glee and cannot stop. Maxwell himself knows this, the adults around him are not monsters and they understand this too, but the boy does such things that anyone would run out of patience.
Maxwell comes to the conclusion that he always ruins everything, and everyone around him would be better off if he didn't exist at all.
Click! And his wish comes true. He finds himself in a world where he was never born.
So, are all his family and friends happy here?
No and no! It turns out that no matter how Maxwell screwed up in his previous life, he managed to do good deeds. He saved a dog - and in the new world the dog died. He won a large sum in a drawing competition, and with this money his school made a complete renovation - and in the new world his classmates study in a shabby, terrible building. In his old life, little Maxwell gave his dad childishly naive, but sincere and correct advice - and dad decided to make changes and became happier. In the new world, no one said the right words to his father - and he pulls the strap of a joyless existence. And the same with the teacher: in the real world, thanks to Maxwell, his class teacher found real human happiness, confessing his love to a girl, and in the parallel world - alas, no happiness, decline ...
In the new world, Maxwell does not become an invisible man, no, everyone sees him, but no one recognizes him - Maxwell is a stranger to everyone. He is alone in the whole wide world, and he will have to get out of it on his own.
One of the most important themes in the book is how teenagers perceive themselves. Are they really that crazy and don't care about anyone? And don't they know what they're doing? Or do they really understand everything perfectly well? And why do they continue to behave like that? There is a serious discord in the soul of the hero of this book, and he strives to transfer his inner state to the world around him, and he is not at all delighted with himself.
- Relationships in the family and how they affect children
- RDivorce. Can it be a blessing?
- The ability to appreciate what you have, love your loved ones and respect yourself
- Can a person be completely alone and still happy, or do other people and shared memories become necessary for happiness?
- Work in a person's life
- The influence of our simplest deeds and even words on the lives of others.
The list is not complete. There is something to think about, something to discuss, and upon re-reading, something new to discover. This is such a multifaceted, profound work.
Psychologically, this is not a difficult story: everything will end well, Maxwell, pushing off from the bottom, will float to the surface.
And at the end of the book there is a twist - not fateful, but curious.
Trace the relationship between events in human life: "Erased".
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