The Book: Boofheads

Essay on Boofheads by Mo Johnson. The book of account Boofheads is a story establish on prejudice. Prejudice is here in every day society. This book was written by Mo Johnson for teenagers that come the same fuss. The problem is sexism. The prejudice in the book is sexism and how it can affect people in such ways that they have to give up one of the most important things in life. With the troika seventeen category old male childs Ed, Steve and gobbler sexism is a big problem.In the book Boofheads by Mo Johnson sexism is a problem between young boys and daughters. The girl saying virtually girls being smart and boys being stupid. This was a clear demonstration of prejudice in Boofheads. In chapter three the three best-friends Ed, Steve and Tom were solely in side class. Their teacher had asked Tom a question about the book Pride and Prejudice which the class had been given to read for homework. One of the girls in the class named Amy Jones had spoke up before Tom could star t to tell his question.Amy then answered the question correctly and turned to Tom and Steven to comment on how dumb they were. Her arguments aim was to prove that girls were clearly smarter than boys and that they were not able to produce a single word of half decent English, Amy had commented. This example explains why this passage from the book has the prejudice of sexism. Boofheads by Mo Johnson has a main story line on three teenage boys pretending to be a 36 year old lady in order to have a column in a teenage girls clipping.The three boys Ed, Steve and Tom have had the opportunity to prove themselves right to all the sexist girls in their school. They are going to become a fake lady so that they can answer teenage girls problems in Toms mothers magazine. Each month they get an email from Toms mum with problems from girls around the state. They come up with solutions to the problem and send an email back to Toms mum with the answers. They only do this to prove that boys can p roduce a single word of half decent English.The girls in the boys school are adamant that the boys are dumb and these three boys want to prove that they are not. In Boofheads the seventeen year old boy named Tom has a mother that is a fussy magazine editor. One of the best in the country. She has a messy office and never relies on Toms advice. Tom is always giving his mother advice on the look of the magazine, contrasting colours and some fashion ideas. He is usually right as his mother gets the same criticism from her boss. She never even realises that Tom gave the same advice to her rior to her changes. She does not guess that a male has any brain for a magazine and they need to stick to the things that men are supposed to do. Tom could be right on the spelling of a word and she would still not believe him. This shows that women of an older age are still sexist to males when it comes to how smart they really are. In conclusion the book Boofheads by Mo Johnson was a book about sex ism. It was mainly based on sexism on males by females. This is why Boofheads is a book about prejudice.