Reader’s Annotation: After crashing his mother’s car while driving drunk, Alex is sentenced to hang out with a grumpy old man at a nursing home. Of course it is only a garden gnome, but the moment speaks to the more serious elements of the book.
#NOTES FROM THE MIDNIGHT DRIVER SUMMARY FULL#
Our narrator may sound snarky most of the time, but when he thinks he has killed someone, he is devastated and feels the full weight of his actions. But I don’t mean to suggest that there is no weight to the book.
I keep returning to the funnier elements of the book, like the funny way that Laurie berates Alex for his drunk driving or the pranks Solomon plays on the residents at the nursing home. I do not recall a specific setting for this book, which says to me that it is meant to be more universal, representing a friendship between sixteen year old and senior citizen in almost any town. And we see his halting conversation skills with girls that he likes, or has just realized that he likes. We also briefly see his drunken voice, which unfortunately for him is reserved for the cops who arrest him. So we get Alex’s conversational, inner monologue, as well as his more formal and polite voice as he uses with authority. Most of the story is told from Alex’s perspective, but he also includes his repeated letters to the judge on his case asking for a community service reassignment. Alex isn’t so eager to finish his community service hours anymore, but Solomon’s health is getting worse.Ĭritical Evaluation: This book combines several styles of storytelling, which I particularly enjoyed. Conversations turn into guitar lessons, and concerts held at the nursing home. Gradually, Alex finds out that Solomon used to be a jazz musician. But the letters to the judge asking her to switch his assignment don’t work. Solomon Lewis doesn’t want him there, and he makes it very clear by berating and insulting Alex every chance he can get.
He is sentenced to community service, which turns out to be keeping an old cranky man company at a nursing home. So he gets drunk and tries to drive his mother’s car to his father’s house to yell at him. Plot Summary: Alex is mad at his mother for going out on a date, but he’s mostly mad at his father for running off with his 3 rd grade teacher. Notes from the Midnight Driver by Jordan Sonnenblick, ISBN: 9781611065862
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