Be More Chill

Aisa Radoncic “Be More Chill” In the book, “Be More Chill,” by Ned Vizzini is about a teenager named Jeremy Heere trying to be the popular kid in school. He can’t do it by just being him, so he buys this supercomputer pill that tells him how to be cool in every situation. The pill has a voice and speaks to him in his mind. The pill called, “squip” tells Jeremy how to get all the things a teenage boy would want most in life. The squip instructs him on everything from what to wear to how to talk and walk. The squip turns Jeremy from a complete geek to the coolest kid in class. I noticed in my book that Jeremy needed the squip in the beginning, but towards the end, when he uses the squip, it gets him in trouble. I think the squip gets Jeremy in trouble. For instance, when Jeremy wanted to have a conversation with his crush, Christine, the squip said, “WHAT ARE YOU DOING? LEAVE CHRISTINE ALONE. CHLOE IS GOING TO LEAD YOU TO A ROOM FOR ECSTASY-LADEN SEXUAL SHENANIGANS! REMEMBER, CHRISTINE WILL COME LATER...” Of course, Jeremy listened to the squip. He followed Chloe to the basement and Chloe’s boyfriend, a football player, ended up chasing Jeremy around the house until he lost him. This shows that what the squip said got Jeremy into trouble. Another way the squip gets Jeremy in trouble is the squip tells Jeremy to interrupt the school play and ask out Christine out. “CHRISTINE LIKES YOU MUCH MORE THAN YOU REALIZE. THAT’S WHY WE’RE DOING THIS. I WOULDN’T BE SENDING YOU OUT ON A LIMB IN FRONT OF ALL THESE PEOPLE IF I DIDN’T KNOW IT WAS GOING TO WORK.” When Jeremy did what the squip told him, he got rejected by Christine and made her furious at him. The final time Jeremy got in trouble from his squip was when the squip started to speak in spanish. Jeremy was in a bit of a pickle at a party that he went to. And when he turned to the squip for help, the squip could only speak spanish. “PATO Y JAB, JEREMY! GOLPEELO CON EL PIE EN LAS BOLAS!” Which means, “Duck and jab, Jeremy! Kick him in the balls!” Jeremy doesn’t speak spanish so he couldn’t understand what the squip was saying, so he almost got beat up for the squip’s mistake. I believe this pattern occurs because Jeremy lets it happen. He listens to whatever the squip tells him to do even if he knows that it’s wrong. I think that this shows that many teenagers of that age have a little voice in their head telling them to do the wrong thing, and they listen. I infer that Jeremy will do worse things in the near future because of the squip. As you can see, I think that the squip helped Jeremy in the past, but is making him get into a lot of trouble.