My impression of the 15 year-old main character, Bobby Phillips, was that he seemed like the sort of person to not do his homework, or the person to be most likely to be sent to the principal's for falling asleep in class. In the first chapter of the book, Bobby doesn't seem disappointed at all that he's missing school. He looks at school like something that isn't a necessity, as he says quote en quote from the text, "Most of the time I can barely tolerate it," and he also says, "But if you're me, it's just school."
We learn in the second chapter of the book that Bobby likes to read books, despite his dislike of school. His mother apparently gave him a book every time he said he was bored when he was little, so he read all the time when he was younger. When Bobby turned invisible, he went to the library a lot, which shows that he was dedicated to reading desipite his situation.
I have mixed feelings about Bobby. One on hand, I resent him because he loves his parents, but he literally says in the first couple pages of the book that, "....they're okay in small doses, and they can be useful. Them knowing what I'm up to makes them less useful." On the other hand, I like the fact that he was brave enough to go outside and even though he was freaked out in the beginning, he adapted quickly to the fact that he was invisible. As the story has progressed, I've decided that I like him more than I don't like him, because he is kind to a secondary character named Alicia who is blind.
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