UNIVERSIDAD PEDAGOGICA NACIONAL FRANCISCO MORAZAN

CENTRO UNIVERSITARIO REGIONAL SAN PEDRO SULA

ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT

Student: Angie Abigail Vasquez Fernandez

Id: 0501-1999-09579

Activity: Report about Chapter #1 and #2

“Beautiful Disaster” by Jamie Mcguire

Class: Didactics of literature.

Facilitator: Lic. Reina Merlo.

Due date: Thursday, February 9th, 2023

 UNIVERSIDAD PEDAGOGICA NACIONAL FRANCISCO MORAZAN
CENTRO UNIVERSITARIO REGIONAL SAN PEDRO SULA
ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT

Report about Beautiful Disaster

Chapter #1 – Red Flag

Chapter one starts from the boxing ring of the Adams circle, where Abby Abernathy, an

innocent girl, with a dark past but willing to see the present and future as a new opportunity.

Abby was holding hands with America and Shepley, both of whom are sweethearts. America

is Abby's best friend so she asks her to advance into the circle, in the dark without getting lost

as there was a large crowd of people. As they went along, Shepley told Abby that these fights

were forbidden and secret, so they should keep an eye out for anything. Once they arrived,

Adam began to introduce one of the fighters, Marek Young, strong, muscular and ready to

break bones. On the other side, people shouted "Mad Dog", "Mag Dog", repeatedly, without

knowing why, people started to get excited and it was because the undefeated fighter, winner

of ALL the fights and the hardest to beat, appeared out of nowhere and it was nothing more

and nothing less than Travis Maddox, He advanced to give a blow to Marek, it was so strong

that it splashed blood on Abby's cardigan, blood fell on Abby's chest and Travis called him

"pigeon", referring to a bird that has a red spot on its chest. At the end of the fight, Abby

couldn't stop focusing on Travis. It was a crush, even though her focus wasn't on meeting a

guy, so when Travis was declared the winner after loud cheers, Abby, America and Shepley

ran off. The next day, the three of them were in the cafeteria, where Abby asked them about

Travis, who is he, what does he think, and found out that he is Shepley's cousin. During their

conversation about him, nothing more and nothing less than Travis Maddox appears. A kind

of denied romance begins, that is, they do not admit it, and in one of those spaces, Abby and

Mare (America) have biology exam where they know absolutely nothing, so Travis offers to

teach Abby and she accepts, they go to her room and study to such a degree that Abby

understood without hesitation. Abby goes out to lunch with Travis on his Harley Davidson in
 UNIVERSIDAD PEDAGOGICA NACIONAL FRANCISCO MORAZAN
CENTRO UNIVERSITARIO REGIONAL SAN PEDRO SULA
ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT

pajamas and flip-flops, where Travis gets a little closer to her.

Chapter #2 – Pig

In this chapter, everything becomes more confusing for Abby, she realizes that Travis

maintains a reputation of being the man who sleeps with everyone, coveted by everyone

without fail, she realizes that his treatment of her is special but refuses to believe that it is

anything more than friendship. Travis helps Abby again to study but in that, a tall and

muscular man approaches her to greet her, it is Parker, he greeted her by name and she

without knowing where she learned it, she asked Travis who he was and he told her that he

was part of the Sigma Tu brotherhood, where Travis also belonged as a family tradition. Also,

it should be noted that, in this fraternity there would be a party where America would not

want to go, Shepley insists but it is also the invitation that Abby received from Parker, where

she was denied since she told him that they had reached an agreement with America about

going to all the parties together. That same day, Abby hears that there is no hot water in her

building, so America tells Abby that they will stay at Travis and Shepley's while they fix the

boilers. Abby feels bad, but, at that moment, reflects that they need the hot water, the first

night, Travis takes her out to dinner in her pajamas and flip-flops, just as she was to go on his

motorcycle to eat pizza. There they share a lot of things about their family, their tattoos and

so on. Abby begins to open her heart a little to Travis' trust, but, she realizes that Travis looks

like a Don Juan so she stays away since there was a rumor that they were boyfriend and

girlfriend, besides that, they go to sleep, and when Abby needs to get ready, she gets in the

bath and Travis gives her a towel, comfortable clothes and a cream, Abby asks her to leave

and when she gets ready to sleep she opens Travis' drawer where there are a lot of condoms.

Before Abby slept in Travis' room, she told him she didn't want him to know how many
 UNIVERSIDAD PEDAGOGICA NACIONAL FRANCISCO MORAZAN
CENTRO UNIVERSITARIO REGIONAL SAN PEDRO SULA
ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT

women had slept there, and having seen Travis' treatment of a woman by telling her he

wouldn't call her after having sex with her, she called him a pig.