In an ultimately strange direction, Erin Lange managed to take on a totally unique form of bullying – where the bullies appear to be your friends but encourage you and pressure you into doing what you don't essentially want to be doing. As well as obesity, the book deals with bullying, social cliques and suicide. Having no idea what it must be like to be obese, I personally loved this perspective of how someone so overweight must feel: embarrassed, pessimistic and lonely, in 'Butter's' case. The book is written in the view as someone who is obese, in the first person, so as a reader you get to understand what Butter is feeling.
The amount of tough themes that are tackled in this book is unbelievable. But with the looming deadline, he knows it can't last – whether the other kids believe he'll follow through with the suicide or not. Little did Butter know that it would make him incredibly popular within the school to the point where he can finally enjoy his life.
He knows everyone at his high school hate the sight of such an obese teenager (but perhaps not as much as he hates it himself) and after an incident in the cafeteria with the girl of his dreams and the school bully, Butter comes up with the idea to live stream his final meal on the Internet, for all to watch as he eats himself to death. Butter is a morbidly obese 423-pound (30 stone) teenager who lives and goes to high school in Arizona.
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