Slam

These questions are related to the novel called, Slam, written by Nick Hornby (1957-)

Why does he hope it could be anything?

Sam hopes that Alicia is crying because of something completely different than a positive pregnancy test. I think he hopes that, because he's just not ready for a baby, and to enter the parenthood at the age 16. 

What is not quite right about what Alicia is saying?

I don't think that Alicia is very wrong,I think she is just confused. She says two different things. Alicia wants Sam to stay with her, and that they figure out everything together. "We. When we are going to tell my mum and dad." She obviously doesn't want to be alone in the whole situation alone which is quite understandable, but she also says that SHE is going to keep the baby. " Because while the baby's in there, it's my body." This argument doesn't really seem right, since it's Sam's child too. It's something they should have at least discussed together, but it looks like Alicia already decided.

How does Sam feel? Have you ever felt like this? When?

How does Sam feel?! This is probably a nightmare for him. He is on the edge, he is desperate but he seem still pretty calm and he hasn't lost his sense of responsibility either. No matter how much he doesn't want this baby, he says that he's not going to leave Alicia in this alone. He could just dump Alicia or he could have disappeared for weeks in Hastings, but he didn't. He understands that they are in this together, so they have to stay togehter. He tries to avoid the ominous conversation with Alicia's parents of course, but he knows that this is something that needs to be done anyway, so I think he's going to be ready for it soon.

I personally feel like this with every single presentation or home assigment. Not that I'm proud of it, but I procastinate every single thing I have to do. I know, this is a bit different than Sam´s situation but, serously, you could give me like 30 years to make a presentation and I still wouldn't do it until the night before. I know that I have to do it, but I try to avoid it as much as I can. That's a bad habit tho', and I should really get rid of it!