Breaking Point in a 2002 young adult novel by Alex Flinn. It was an 'Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers' in 2003.
Bulletin for the Center for Children's Books said that the book was "a dark drama of self-destruction that should make for grimly satisfying reading" while Voice of Youth Advocates called its characters "brilliantly twisted."
Plot
Paul Richmond, moves from homeschooling to a fancy private school, Gate-Brickell Christian, after his lieutenant colonel father has an affair and divorces his teacher-mother. On his first day at Gate, he meets a girl named Binky and a boy named Charlie Good.
Without Binky, life would be pretty terrible for Paul. The kids at school look down on him because his mother is a teacher there. Thanks to his father, Paul looks down on her too. His father, busy with a new wife and baby, ignores his calls and finally tells him to go away. He feels responsible for being a surrogate man of the house for his mother, who is clingy and insecure. This is far too much pressure for Paul, and only drives him away from confiding in his mother about anything happening in his life. Binky knows the score from way back, and knows it wasn’t that much easier on David Blanco, son of the school janitor. When David’s dog is found killed, the school population tacitly blames David, because it’s easier than figuring out which one of the children of privilege is the corrupt one.
Breaking point or The Breaking Point may refer to:
Psychology
Books
Film and TV
Film
In human psychology, the breaking point is a moment of stress in which a person breaks down or a situation becomes critical.
The intensity of environmental stress necessary to bring this about varies from individual to individual.
Interrogation
Getting someone to confess to a crime during an interrogation – whether innocent or guilty - means the suspect has been broken. The key to breaking points in interrogation has been linked to changes in the victim's concept of self - changes which may be precipitated by a sense of helplessness, by lack of preparedness or an underlying sense of guilt, as well (paradoxically) as by an inability to acknowledge one's own vulnerabilities.
Life
Psychoanalysts like Ronald Fairbairn and Neville Symington considered that everybody has a potential breaking point in life, with vulnerability particularly intense at early developmental stages.
Some psychoanalysts say that rigid personalities may be able to endure great stress before suddenly cracking open. Such breakdowns may, however, offer favorable opportunities for therapists to get clients.
Breaking Point! is the ninth album by trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, recorded on May 7, 1964, and released on the Blue Note label. Featuring performances by Hubbard, James Spaulding, Ronnie Mathews, Eddie Khan and Joe Chambers, it "constitutes some of the most powerful jazz music of this time period".
Track listing
All compositions by Freddie Hubbard except as indicated