The presentation by Allison and Jenny of the book Pedro and Me was very good. I really like the way they present their presentation, especially to the fact that they summarized all of important events that happen in the book. I have read this book back in summer quarter when I was taking EWRT 100 with Mrs. Patton. In my opinion, this is a really good book which describes a value of friendship between Pedro Zamora and the author itself, Judd Winick. In this book the author tells his experience being a person who is selected to participate in MTV's reality show, The Real World: San Francisco. And later on, he meets a guy in this reality show as his roommate named Pedro Zamora, a homosexual guy who has HIV/AIDS. Furthermore, Winick also tells about the exhausting pressure he gets from living in the house knowing that they are being documented. However, Winick makes a good friends, especially with Pedro, because they love to do same thing, and they share same feelings despite of having different background. “But mostly because we were not really the stereotypes our background or TV made us to be” (Winick 112). Their relationship become closer as Winick knows that Pedro only have limited time to live due to his chronic disease. Meanwhile, Pedro does not waste his limited time by having fun, instead he promotes AIDS awareness through seminars and lectures to the public, especially teenagers. This book is one of the best book I have read in my life, for it shows me the love and care of Judd Winick to Pedro in order to support Pedro fighting his situation. In conclusion, I would definitely recommend this book to anyone. I really like this book not only because of the comic-strip-novel that makes this book easy to understand, but also it teaches me the true meaning of friendship.
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