![]() ![]() ![]() Even his loving father's patience is sorely tested by this particular weakness.Īnd patience is part of the point. He can react quickly enough to vomit in something, but not necessarily quickly enough to find the right container. Finally, for the first eight years of his life, he has a stomach disorder that leaves him subject to sudden vomiting. ![]() Spinelli does not romanticize Zinkoff's life. In Loser, we see the story from the point of view of the one living with the various handicaps that lead him to be labelled and shunned by others. In Jerry Spinelli's novel Crash, the bully who narrated the story showed us how unsatisfying it is to treat others as losers. All the things that make him conspicuous brand him either as a "loser" or simply as someone who wears his heart on his sleeve. Donald Zinkoff's name is not the only thing that makes him conspicuous. ![]()
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