Tyrell Coe Booth. Transform this Plot Summary into a Study Guide. Tyrell , a contemporary urban fiction novel for teens and adults by Coe Booth, follows Tyrell, a poor fifteen-year-old from the Bronx, in his struggle to take care of his younger brother and provide for his family after his parents fail to make enough money to pay the rent.
Tyrell and his new friend Jasmine come up with a scheme to make some extra money, but pulling it off is more complicated than it appears at first glance. Furthermore he t Tyrell is very troubled teen. Furthermore he tries to make money but by throwing parties like his father; however, he's missing something.
He needs back up because he's not trying to get locked up like his pops. Finally in the end of the book this is what happens This book may look really intresting but it even looks it. This book changed my perspective on life. Also it may just have the back of a boy's head but look's can be deceving. This book is just like real life in the Projects. Tyrell is a boy trying to take care of his mom and brother Trey. Trey is in special edd and he needs help and his mom does not take good care of him.
Tyrell also has a girlfriend and he is trying to keep her and not loose her, but theris this other girl that likes him and i This book may look really intresting but it even looks it. Tyrell also has a girlfriend and he is trying to keep her and not loose her, but theris this other girl that likes him and is vary pretty but he cant loose his current girlfriend.
If this sounds intresing to you. You should read it. Jan 19, Stephanie Bolton rated it liked it Shelves: ya-general-fiction. Tyrell's father is in prison Tyrell is doing his best to be the man of the family. At home he's working to keep his mother from completely falling apart, he has dropped out of school and is finding small ways to make a little money to keep them fed. All the while he is dreaming of the day when his girlfriend, Novisha, has finished high school and they can get married and move away together.
When Tyrell and his family get placed in an especially rough hotel for a weekend Tyrell is forced Tyrell's father is in prison When Tyrell and his family get placed in an especially rough hotel for a weekend Tyrell is forced to step up to make sure his family stays together. To do this, Tyrell has to come to terms with what risks he is willing to take. Mature themes and language fill this realistic, and somewhat bleak, story. The writing style is casual and it was written in dialect.
I really appreciate this book for being representative of poverty and the African American experience. I think it is important to illuminate to a younger audience how fighting to keep your family fed and in a house can get you entrenched in debt and in trouble with the law. This can either help to make an audience more empathetic to the struggles of their fellow man or allows less fortunate readers to see a comrade in Tyrell. Tyrell's character development was really well flushed out.
His struggles with the difficulties of his relationship with both Novisha and Jasmine does help to illuminate him; but, in some ways, Novisha and Jasmine seem a little two dimensional. Oct 28, Michael A rated it it was amazing. This book was crazy, plain and simple.
It had a lot going on and the plot was just insane. It's about a year old kid named Tyrell and his whole mess of a life. His dad's in jail, like always, his little 7-year old brother, Troy, has to be taken care of, and his mess of a mother can't support or take care of the family for crap with her husband in jail.
They live in a homeless shelter and they really need to get out of there. Tyrell's relationship with girls is complicated throughout the story This book was crazy, plain and simple. Tyrell's relationship with girls is complicated throughout the story, with his girlfriend Novisha and then with another girl he meets at the shelters they're moving in and out of. Tyrell has to make money to get his family out of the situation with his dad locked up. How will Tyrell get his family out of their situation with all the things going on in his life?
This book can be a great read for anyone looking for something different or diverse. It really shows a different perspective not many people can relate to. Apr 26, Jaime rated it it was amazing. I think this book should be required reading for everyone. This is a perspective that we as Americans and definitely white privileged Americans should read.
I loved Tyrell and am so happy this is a trilogy. Nov 01, Yaritza rated it really liked it. This book is an inspiration to young kids who are going through some similar situations like the fifteen year old and shows how even the hardest life obstacles can be faced without guidance. I recommend this book to drama and non-fictional lovers.
Mar 10, Gunnar Wiltsie added it. Tyrell is Broke, homeless, with a mom who refuses to take care of his little brother and acts like the world owes her a living, Tyrell is under so much pressure, sometimes he feels like he's gonna break for sure.
Tyrell's father is in jail again, his mom thinks the world owes her a living, and his girlfriend Novisha wants more than he can give. Tyrell, his mom and his little brother Troy got kicked outta their apartment because his mom refused to look for a job, and they couldn't pay the rent Tyrell is Tyrell, his mom and his little brother Troy got kicked outta their apartment because his mom refused to look for a job, and they couldn't pay the rent.
All she wants to do is party with her friends and rag on Tyrell all the time, blaming him for all their troubles, when it's a clear as a freshly cleaned that it's really her fault. Now they've stayed in the shelter as long as they can, and they're gonna have to live in the Bennett Motel, the worst roach infested motel in the worst part of the Bronx.
Tyrell's worried about Troy, who's only seven, and their mom ignores him most of the time, letting him eat whatever he wants and leaving him to stay alone with the roaches, even though he's only seven.. Basically tyrell just has to overcome to provide for his family. Nov 24, Miguel Rafael rated it it was amazing. The most interesting part of the book was when the children's care took away Tyrell's brother because where they lived was not an appropriate place for tyrell's brother and also because the mom left alone tyrell's brother and tyrell had to go to school.
I recommend this book because it has some parts that maybe the reader has gone through and if you like to read non fiction book this is the right one. Mar 11, Sarah Donovan rated it liked it. Tyrell's father is in jail; he's living in a shelter with his mom and brother; he's dating a good Catholic girl whose mother cooks for him; he's dropped out of school; he's a budding DJ, and he's trying to figure out how to be with raw expression my students will love but their parents won't.
Jan 16, Malik rated it it was amazing. This book was one of the best books I read this year so far. It comes with different varieties such as comedy, love, and suspense.
I would recommend this book to a friend who is maybe going the the same things tyrell was going though and maybe once they read it it can give them some advice. This book is mainly about a boy that grows up not having the best life.
He understands now that he is older he does more grown man stuff and helps out his mother to take care of his little brother since ther This book was one of the best books I read this year so far. He understands now that he is older he does more grown man stuff and helps out his mother to take care of his little brother since there father is locked up.
A lot of children today are having to take care of them selves and family members to help them get through this life. Single parents having to take care of their children are having their older child take care of them to the best they can. I like having my girl take care of me this way. I can't wait 'til she finish high school and we can live together somewhere on our own.
I'm support her while she in college, pay all the bills and shit, and she can take care of me like this everyday. Man, that's the way I wanna be living. This book is also a good book to recommend to a friend because if you having relationship problems this book tells about how tyrell and his girlfriend are in the beginning and then towards the end things get difficult and goes down hill.
The book Tyrell would not be a recommended book for younger children under age fourteen. I loved this book when I read it because it really showed me how helpful I should be to my family and get them through the hard times.
What Tyrell was going through people around the world are having the same problems. Where I belong. Its nothing like home and family there all you got you everyone should cherish their family once their gone their gone for good.
Tyrell loved his father, mother and little brother but once his dad got locked up he was to take care of his mom and little brother and be there for his girlfriend. They grew up in the projects of Bronx new york.
There's a lot of responsibilities having to be done and Tyrell mom thinks he should do everything and she says that she does everything for them but she lies about everything and that's how they got put back in to foster care. Sep 17, Alex Hughes rated it did not like it. This was the first book I read with my group. I wish it were not! There are several reasons for this. There was little to no character development throughout the book, which I wouldn't mind, except that the entire book was written in "slang" in point of view of the protagonist.
I felt that even the setting was lacking in strength of description and hindered the book plot development in my opinion. The characters is the fiction were more or less worse in morality than that of Tyrell's, with the e This was the first book I read with my group. The characters is the fiction were more or less worse in morality than that of Tyrell's, with the exception being his litter brother Troy who's in grade school.
As it turns out Ty's girlfriend of several months has been lying to him about her virginity shocker, right? It gets better. He has been cheating on her with some girl who's living down the hall from his room. He's a total hypocrite for getting mad at her. I don't even think he felt any remorse for what he did with Jasmine. Like I said before, little to no character development in this book. The author wrote this book in the shoes of Tyrell, a teenage kid living in the Bronx. This point of view as I predicted from the back of the book would contain the language spoken by a black kid in the ghetto.
What I did not anticipate was the excessiveness of the speech in the book, making it totally redundant to me. It's wasn't just when he was talking to other people in the same situation as him, but also to teachers, people he didn't know, and he even thought in it.
This made the book give off and ignorant view upon itself. I would recommend this book for people who are a fan of extremely one point perspective view protagonist. Not that I would highly recommend it, but two of my group buddies did. But beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Like dealing with a relationship and handling with difficulties at home. Those themes could relate with a lot of young adults who are living anywhere.
Nov 02, Desmond King rated it really liked it. The book I just got reading is Tyrell written by Coe booth. The book used language of a young boy that was brought up in the ghetto with nothing. He lived off assistants from the government such as shelters, food stamps, etc. The language was very hard to understand at times because when your reading a book you expect the grammar to be perfect and the structure of the sentence to make since.
But in this book she talks exactly like a young man would in Tyrell's situation and lifestyle. So you g The book I just got reading is Tyrell written by Coe booth. So you get a overall feel on what it was like if I were him in this story. I'ma support her while she in college, pay all the bills and shit, and she can take care of me like this everyday.
He's tired of being poor and not being able to have anything. The language of the book gives you a great glimpse inside of life of someone from the ghetto or that doesn't really talk that proper as one would expect.
In the book the way she uses Tyrell to speak, u see the corrections and automatically you feel like correcting it because u know what sounds right and better; but you can't do that because it mess up the complete feel on the book and the effect she wanted to have on you.
I would recommend this to anybody that loves novels because this a great book that would give you a good glimpse realism These books glorify an opportunisitic, materialistic, sexist, violent, and sometimes criminal world that teens live or wish to live.
Lest you think me some suburb-rised cultural elitest, let me set you straight. I'm straight up 'hood born and 'hood raised. I've seen some of these stories close up in real life and there's nothing good about them, so I'm baffled by the embrace of them.
It exposes the ugly side of project-life, hustling, and using sex as a tool. The protagonist, year-old Tyrell, is trying to keep his family and life together as he is trying to escape homelessness. But he is constantly angered and frustrated by a trifling mom, an incarcerated dad, a mistrustful girlfriend, and a needy female pal. Yet, by the end of the story, Tyrell finds light at the end of the tunnel. The ending doesn't pretend that the rest of Tyrell's life or his little brother's, mother's, father's or friends' won't be a hard struggle, but it does give hope that Tyrell won't succumb to the vices emotional and physical that traps everyone around him.
Tyrell is both sad and uplifting without being preachy. It is the perfect realistic fiction for today's teens. Littlefinger is successful in negotiating with the Tyrells, and the allied forces arrive in time to achieve a decisive victory against Stannis at the Battle of the Blackwater. Just as Stannis's forces were turning the tide and about to take the city, the Lannister army led by Tywin and the large Tyrell army led by Loras arrived from the Riverlands and the Reach, and caught Stannis's army in the flank.
Stannis' army was almost completely destroyed, though Stannis himself managed to escape with a small fraction of his men. To formalize the new alliance between House Lannister and House Tyrell, King Joffrey agrees to be betrothed to marry Margaery Tyrell, who subsequently takes place at court.
The marriage will be finalized once the war is over. Due to the new Lannister-Tyrell alliance, House Tyrell resumes shipment of its foodstuffs along the Roseroad to feed the common people of King's Landing , who were suffering greatly from the deprivations of the war, and the disruption in trade which began when Highgarden declared for Renly Baratheon.
Margaery says that wagons are now arriving in the city daily from the Reach, containing wheat, barley, and apples. Lady Olenna and her granddaughter Margaery have a private meeting with Sansa Stark in which Olenna asks Sansa to give her frank, truthful assessment of King Joffrey. Olenna bluntly tells Sansa that she feels her fatheaded oaf of a son Mace Tyrell made a major mistake in supporting Renly's rival claim to the throne, much to Margaery's embarrassment.
Olenna nonetheless chides that the men of House Tyrell have never been very intelligent: her own husband the late Lord Luthor Tyrell rode off a cliff to his death during a hawking accident because he was too focused on the sky, Loras is good at knocking men off horses with a stick but not politics, and her son Mace is an oaf who is determined to see House Tyrell marry into the royal line. Thus, she says, the more politically savvy women of House Tyrell are left to clean up the mess.
Sansa confirms the rumors that have been coming out of the capital: Joffrey is a monster. Lady Olenna says this is "a pity" but takes the news calmly. She thanks Sansa for her honesty, and assures her that her son Mace is too set on entering Margaery into a royal marriage to call off the wedding at this point. Tywin takes action as he does not want the Tyrells to take control over the North after the defeat of Robb Stark and decides to marry his son Tyrion to Sansa and daughter Cersei to Loras, preventing Sansa and Loras from marrying each other and placing the North under de facto Lannister control.
When discussing the prospect of marrying Cersei Lannister to Loras Tyrell, Tywin Lannister and Olenna Tyrell discuss the scandals surrounding the pair. In response to Tywin's suggestion that Highgarden "has a high tolerance for unnatural behavior", Olenna states that while House Tyrell doesn't "turn [itself] in knots over" homosexuality, incest is still very much frowned upon.
On a more practical note, she says that the Tyrells cannot take the risk that Cersei will be unable to give Loras any heirs, as otherwise Highgarden will revert to the Baratheon children of Margaery and Joffrey. Tywin, using his position as Hand of the King , forces Olenna to consent to the marriage when he threatens to place Ser Loras in the Kingsguard.
At the wedding of Margaery Tyrell to Joffrey , Olenna Tyrell discusses the Iron Throne 's tremendous debt owed to the Iron Bank of Braavos with Tywin Lannister , who brushes them off, though Olenna openly comments that she knows Tywin is smarter than that. Olenna later meets with Sansa Stark and offers her condolences for the Red Wedding.
Margaery's wedding to Joffrey takes an unexpected turn when the king dies from poison after sipping his wine. Margaery and her brother Loras are present at the court trial of Tyrion Lannister. Mace is personally taken aback by Shae 's testimony when she admits to being Tyrion's whore.
Margaery and Loras are surprised when Tyrion demands a trial by combat at the end of the hearing. Margaery Tyrell is present at the funeral of Lord Tywin Lannister in the Great Sept of Baelor ; while walking up the sept 's steps, Cersei Lannister exchanges a glare with her.
Later, Margaery walks in on her brother Loras having sex with his squire, Olyvar. After consummating their marriage, Margaery convinces Tommen to offer to send his mother back to Casterly Rock.
When Tommen offers this to Cersei, she tells Tommen her place is in King's Landing and realizes just how much Margaery's influence has grown over her son. Cersei plots to empower the Faith of the Seven in order to break Tommen and Margaery's marital union. She has Tommen name a peasant called the High Sparrow , the leader of the radical Sparrows , the new High Septon after the previous one was caught in a brothel , and reestablishes the Faith Militant , of which her cousin Lancel is a member of.
Lancel and a group of Sparrows arrest Loras Tyrell due to his homosexuality, a sin in the eyes of the Faith. Margaery tries to convince Tommen to take action, but when Tommen arrives to the steps of the Sept of Baelor, he and his Kingsguard are stopped by the Sparrows, preventing him from speaking to the High Sparrow. Tommen decides to leave in order to avoid violence despite a Kingsguard advising otherwise. Hearing of this, Olenna Tyrell returns to the capital and tells Margaery that she will deal with Cersei.
However, Olenna realizes in a conversation with Cersei that she cannot convince the Queen Mother to release her grandson. Loras denies the accusations, as does Queen Margaery, who is surprised when she is called forward. Before they may break, Olyvar is brought into the room and confesses to having sex with Loras, his proof being a birthmark on Loras's upper thigh. The Sparrows arrest both Loras and Margaery as a result. Cersei smirks at Olenna. Olenna confronts the High Sparrow in the Sept of Baelor, who refuses to release Loras and Margaery because of their sins before the gods.
Olenna then receives a letter from Petyr Baelish , who she meets with in his now ruined brothel. Olenna threatens to bring down Baelish if House Tyrell falls, reminding him that they murdered King Joffrey together.
Baelish offers Olenna a "gift," the same he offered Cersei: a handsome young man. The High Sparrow goes on to arrest Cersei when her cousin Lancel confesses to having sex with her, [25] and forces Cersei to walk naked in the streets of King's Landing from the Sept of Baelor to the Red Keep in a walk of atonement when Cersei denies most of her sins and begs to return to her son's side in the Red Keep.
However, for her help in forming a new holy alliance between the Faith of the Seven and the Iron Throne , she is exempt from the punishment. Margaery later meets with her grandmother Olenna, where she plays as a follower of the Sparrows to trick Septa Unella.
Margaery urges her grandmother to leave the capital. When Olenna refuses to leave her, Margaery discreetly slips a note to her grandmother with a drawing of the sigil of House Tyrell, communicating with her that she has not been fooled and that her true loyalty stays with family.
At the trial of Loras at the Great Sept of Baelor , which is attended by Margaery and their father Mace Tyrell, Loras confesses to his crimes and renounces his claim to Highgarden to serve as a member of the Faith Militant , playing into the High Sparrow. Shortly after his trial, the sept is destroyed in a plot orchestrated by Cersei Lannister and Qyburn to allow for Cersei to evade her own trial while destroying her enemies at the same time.
Olenna later meets with Ellaria Sand and the Sand Snakes in Dorne , where she recognizes that her direct line will not survive. However, Ellaria - and Varys - promise vengeance for Olenna, who pledges her house to once again support House Targaryen and Daenerys Targaryen 's claim to the Iron Throne. Some of House Tyrell's ships are later seen alongside Martell, Greyjoy, and Daenerys's own Targaryen ships, and set sail to exact revenge against Cersei and reinstate the Targaryen dynasty to the Iron Throne.
When Daenerys remarks that she does not want to become the "Queen of Ashes", Tyrell responds that Cersei will not give up the Iron Throne easily and makes references to the death of her granddaughter Margaery at the Great Sept of Baelor.
Following the meeting, Daenerys summons Olenna for a private meeting and tells her that she is aware that her motives are based on revenge rather than love for her.
When Daenerys insists that she will usher in an era of peace, Olenna counters that there never really was a lasting peace under the Mad King or any preceding Targaryen. She warns Daenerys that Tyrion is a clever man and that Olenna has outlasted many clever men by not listening to their advice.
She likens the lords of Westeros to sheep and tells Dany that she must be a dragon if she wants to rule Westeros. Meanwhile, Cersei summons Lord Randyll Tarly , one of House Tyrell's vassals, and attempts to convince him to cast aside his allegiance to House Tyrell. Despite Cersei's warnings about the threat of Daenerys and her Dothraki hordes, Lord Tarly is reluctant to abandon his loyalty to Olenna due to his distrust of the Lannisters. Jaime, however, convinces Lord Tarly to reconsider by painting Cersei as the lesser evil and offers to make him the warden of the south.
Left largely undefended , the castle is taken quickly despite the garrison's spirited defense and lost to the Lannisters.
Jaime gives Olenna, the last remaining Tyrell of the main branch, a poison which she chooses to willingly drink. Olenna's death is a blow to the Targaryen cause, as well as extinguishing the main branch of House Tyrell, and losing their ancestral seat of Highgarden. However, before she dies, Olenna reveals to Jaime that she was the one who poisoned his and Cersei's son Joffrey at the Purple Wedding and requests that this be passed on to Cersei, a last little gift from House Tyrell.
Tyrion makes it clear to Randyll Tarly that Cersei isn't the right choice for Westeros, as she destroyed House Tyrell Randyll's liege lords for good, before he is executed by Drogon on Daenerys's orders. Thus, in combination with Jaime's words about Olenna's entire House being dead, it is established that House Tyrell is no more.
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