Jason Taylor

Jason Taylor is the main character and narrator for this novel. He is the son of Michael and Helena Taylor, and the younger brother of Julia Taylor. In January, when the book opened, he had just turned thirteen. Even though he was a boy, Jason enjoyed writing poetry and submitted poems to the parish magazine under a pen name. Because of these poems, he made friends with a strange German lady who encouraged him to think about his writing and word choice along with the real meaning of beauty and truth. Jason didn’t want his friends to know he wrote poetry because he believed it would cause him to be labeled a loser and/or gay. He also didn’t want his friends to find out that he stammered as he believed this disability was another detail about himself that would cause him to be labeled...