Billionaire Boy

Billionaire boy is about a boy who was brought up in a very rich household and was sent to a very rich school but was bullied because he was the richest out of everyone and had no friends of his own. His father then sends him to a public school of the boys choice and meets a girl that he wants to have a relationship with. Little did the boy know that she was being paid by his father to have a relationship with the boy and the boy then finds out throughout the story and becomes sad and is angry at his father.  

A character that I found interesting was the boy’s father. I found the father interesting because the father is very wealthy and can afford pretty much anything in the world. It would make sense that he would send his child to a rich school but his son did not like it. As a father who wants his son to succeed he does not force him to stay at the rich school. I would assume he would because they are rich. A point in time in the story where this happens is when the boy comes home from school and begs his father to send him to a public school because he has had enough of the bullies. I find this hard to relate to because my parents are not billionaires who force me to go to a millionaire school but instead I go to a normal school which I am happy with. I am happy with my school because of the friends I have here and I like the school in general. I would feel the same if I were in the boys situation, going to a school and having no friends and wanting to switch schools.

A message I took from the text is that money cannot buy happiness. This story illustrates this message really well because the boy has everything any kid in the world would dream about “He would ride around in his formula 1 racing car every evening.” But that still did not make him happy because he did not have any friends or any happiness in his life and wished he was just a normal boy. The author wants people who read this text to know that money won’t make you happy as most people think. You sure can buy the nicest house, the nicest car, or the best boat but have no real friends and some people might even use you for your money and that will just make you sad. So living a happy life is also an important aspect of life because who doesn’t like being happy.

A challenge the character had to deal with was being rich. It is an unusual challenge because who doesn’t like being rich. But this boy was so rich that he did not like it. A point in time in the book where this happens is when the boy comes home from school and is very sad and sits in his room because he was bullied by his classmates for being too rich. The boy comes home from school after being bullied and asks his father “can I switch schools?” He said to himself that he wishes he was a normal boy. My response to this is that I can see why he doesn’t like being rich because he was bullied and I understand why he wanted to switch schools. If I were in the same situation as him I would also think the same way because I would rather be myself now rather than being very rich and being bullied for it. I find this hard to relate too because I have never been bullied for being ‘too rich’.

I don’t think the text title matches the story because ‘billionaire boy’ doesn’t match the story the characters deal with. When I first read the title of this book I assumed the story would be about a boy who is making millions of dollars by himself. A text title I think would suit this story would be ‘The boy with a billion dollars’ because reading that title I would assume that this is about a boy who has a wealthy family and how having this family went for him. 

I would recommend this story to children because a lot of children assume that money will make this very happy and being able to buy whatever they want will make them happy. But after they read this, it will hopefully give them an insight on how happiness beats money.