Analysis Of Waving Through A Window

The plot of this book is about the journey of discovering their own identities, and the journey starts because of the main characters’ friendships. Jonah, the main character, has been loved and cared for by his family his entire life and has never thought seriously about the fact that he is adopted until he gets two mysterious letters in the mail, both with no return address. Jonah thinks that these are just a prank letter, but his friend Chip gets panicked when he gets the same letters. Jonah finds out that Chip’s parents had never told him that he was adopted as well. Jonah thinks “He’d never met Chip’s dad, just seen him drive by. Jonah probably couldn’t have picked Chip’s dad out in a line-up. However, right now Jonah wanted to stolk over to Chip’s house, swing his best punch, and hit Chip’s dad right in the mouth.” (Peterson 35) Jonah feels angry towards Chip’s parents because they refuse to tell him anything else about his adoption. Later Jonah says “I swear, I’ll do everything I can to help you.” (Peterson 35) This quote suggests that Jonah cares deeply about his friend and wants to support him, and he promises he will do everything he can to help Chip. Jonah, Chip, and Jonah’s younger sister, Katherine begin the journey to find the truth about their past. Their friendship pushes them into a wild adventure for seeking their identity.

However, in the end, he leaves empty-handed, but full of the realization that sometimes you have to let people go. The story is told in the first person point of view so that the author makes you feel close to him. This was an excellent choice for this book because I could truly understand the struggle Chris experienced. The author’s language was thorough and her attitude towards the character and their problems was supportive yet realistic which added to my overall enjoyment of the novel. One of the major themes in this novel was that every now and then, one needs to say goodbye to people even if it’s not easy.

Jess, an 18-year-old girl, feels alone as she feels that she does not belong home. She wants to commit suicide after her boyfriend, Chas, leaves her because she then feels completely alone. Jess’s elder sister, Jen, disappeared a few years ago and Jess blames herself for Jen’s disappearance. JJ, a guy with dreams of becoming a successful musician is stuck in the past with thoughts his ex-girlfriend and failure to fulfill his dreams since his band broke up. He also feels alone since he is an immigrant and the people he considered his family abandoned him.

The author uses the idea of childhood innocence to his advantage through the novel. He is able to show the obvious bad parts of unwinding through various main characters feelings. Connor has feeling of betrayal that serve a way the reader can relate to the character, imposed when he explains his feelings of rejection “from the hearts of those who are supposed to love him” after finding out that he would be unwound. Lev also conveys with the readers his “fury at a universe pretending to be fair and just”. Along with clear faults in the process of unwinding, the author uses the viewpoints of his young characters to explore significant issue in our society. When Connor is being taken to the graveyard, he is forced to consider topics such as unwinding and abortion with three other boys in his crate. WHile they discuss issues regarding unwinding, Shusterman puts an emphasis on the topics that are relevant today. Emby represents the present day pro-life argument, while Connor takes the side of pro-choice, saying that a soul “comes when a baby’s born into the world”. Hayden admits to having started “our own little Heartland War”, connecting the boys’ discussion with the current debate of abortion. The author is not trying to push his beliefs

You are not the person on the outside that you are on the inside but the pain ties humans together. “Boy 21” a novel by Matthew Quick demonstrates a relationship between two characters who believe they are so different-but pain due to tragedy bring them closer.Quick’s novel addresses the coming-of-age tropes of identity and community, as well as the confusion often evidenced during this adolescent timeframe, a period often infused with love, hurt and clarity. They walk on the path to redemption while disorienting pain. Quick masters the authenticity of mystery also maintaining a sense of overwhelming sadness in the setting.

Tony finds that taking pills will numb the feeling of his father abandoning him and the feeling of his friends passing away. Tony ends up killing the boyfriend and is sent to prison before he ends up at Aspen Springs. Conner grew up with his twin sister and was raised by their parents. Conner’s parents were very tough on him and he always felt pressured in not being good enough, Conner was very intelligent and on the outside people could not see the real hurt and struggle he was going through everyday. Conner thinks the only way to deal with his situations to kill himself. Conner attempts suicide in his family living room. This mother finds him and he was able to get help. Conner’s mother was ore worried about her high priced clothing and lavish life rather than her son and his mental health. Conner struggled with feeling excepted from women since his mom wasn’t too worried about him. At a young age he was molested by a baby sitter then when he was older he had a girlfriend who was his teacher twice his age. After Conner healed from his attempted suicide shot to the heart he was placed at Aspen Springs. Vanessa grew up as an “Army Brat”. Her dad was currently over seas serving in Afghanistan. While her, her mom, and

Deej Logan was just like any normal high school girl. She woke up on her first day of school and combed her hair, picked out the “perfect” outfit and headed out the door. What she didn’t know is that after that day nothing would be the same. Nothing that day seemed to be going right. At school drama was swarming all around her, not exactly what she hoped the first day would be like. By the time the last bell of the day rang she was more than happy to get out of that school. She drove home as quickly as she could but as soon as she got home she realized that she had forgotten to pick up her sisters. “Great.” She thought sarcastically as she sat back down in her car and drove off. Just then she pulled out her phone to message one of her friends about her awful day. That one decision changed everything. Before she had a chance to send the message Deej veered off into oncoming traffic and was killed on impact.

The main character, Charlie must navigate through it even while feeling motionless and scared. He tells his story to the reader from his perspective. The reader sees life from exactly the way he sees the events and understands those events through a teenage boy’s eyes. The crisis is introduced when the town outcast Jasper Jones asked Charlie, a bookish young nobody of a boy for help. The reader sees Charlie’s internal conflicts of wanting to go with Jasper, feeling terrified, excited yet so wanting to be accepted by him Charlie does in fact sneak out in the middle of the night with his new friend. Jasper takes Charlie to the scene of the crime where Jasper’s girlfriend is hanging from a tree. The manner that Silvey describes Charlie’s reaction to the hanged girls is true to human nature, “I’m screaming, but they are muffled screams. I can’t breathe in. I feel like I’m underwater. Deaf and drowning.” This description foreshadows the solution to hide the body and Jasper and Charlie throw Laura Wishart into the lake. Unknown to either is Laura Wishart’s sister, Eliza. She witnessed the suicide of her sister and wrote the word “sorry” on the stump of the tree before she leaves. Charlie and Jasper find this word, assume that the killer wrote it there, and immediately jump to the

This theme is brought through the song by showing multiple literary devices. Such as “I'm the one at sail, I’m the master of my sea”. This metaphor shows the realization and empowerment that oneself can give in a depressing situation. This simile “Falling like ashes to the ground, Hoping my feelings they would drown” compares his feeling of sadness and depression to ashes, and wanting them to drown and vanish, from his life. This line, “All the hate that you’ve heard has turned your spirit to a dove” explains how all of the hate that he has experienced and gone through has turned his feelings around, and decided to look on the bright side of things. Personally I think this is a great

At first, Wes A lost his fathers in the same day and his mother couldn’t handle the death of her husband so they moved in with her parents. As Wes A realized that the rules were stricter, he made some friends outside of the house and slowly he joined an unbreakable group of friends; one that had both its good sides and its bad sides. His mother sent him to private school where he discovered that he became an “alien”. Too good for his neighborhood friends and too poor for his school friends. One day Wes decided to hang out with Shea one of his friends and they ended up being thrown into the back of a police car, “I became aware of how I had put myself in this situation… The possibility of losing all control of my life was like a depthless black chasm

Imaging your brother or sister, daughter or son gone in an instant, just like Chris, that causes any family to have deep heartbreak and damage. Chris left for two years not telling anyone what he was doing or where he was going. He had compassion and sympathy for the poor and his environment. “How is it ... that a kid with so much compassion could cause his parents so much pain?”(104). This confirms that he did cause his parents great pain, also how he has so much compassion to others but he could not even show that to his parents is heartbreaking and selfish. Chris was out of his family's’ sight for a long time. He felt he needed to get the full experience and shut his parents out. McCandless had chances to mail his parents and sister about his travels but chose not to, creating a lost connection between them. “When Gallien asked whether his parents or a friend knew what he was up to— whether there was anyone who would sound the alarm if he got into trouble and was overdue—Alex answered calmly that no, nobody knew of his plans, that in fact he hadn’t spoken to his family in nearly two years. “I’m absolutely positive, ” he assured Gallien, “I won’t run into anything I can't deal with on my own” (6).

The boy unmasked the gaping void in Franz’s life even as he helped fill it. When McCandless departed as suddenly as he’d arrived, Franz found himself deeply and unexpectedly hurt. ”(56) Chris did not at all consider how Ronald would feel after he left. While waiting intently for Chris’ return, Franz learned of Chris’ death and was utterly heartbroken.

Many people, throughout their teenage years, struggle with signs of depression emotional challenges. Intensified depression may begin to cause suicidal thoughts. In this case, teenager, Conrad, in the book "Ordinary People," experienced intense depression because of the death of his brother: This caused him to have suicidal thoughts and attempt to end his life. Because Conard attempted suicide, he was sent to a hospital. At which, Conrad ended up building a deep friendship with a girl named Karen. With the similar issues Karen endures as Conrad, such as depression, Judith Guest, in "Ordinary People," shows how Conrad idolizes Karen, which could have affected his path to recovery.

Melinda Sordino was just a young teenage girl trying to have some fun. Now, she is loathed by afar for something nobody understands. During a summer party, Melinda drunkenly fumbled for the phone and dialed the cops. As she enters her freshman year of high school, her friends refuse to talk to her, and she escapes into the dark forests of her mind. “I am Outcast” (Anderson 4). But something about that party was not right. Something she tried not to relive but to forget. “I have worked so hard to forget every second of that stupid party, and here I am in the middle of a hostile crowd that hates me for what I had to do. I can’t tell them what really happened. I can’t even look at that part of myself” (Anderson 28). Depression is a

Caitlin is a 16 year old high school girl who lives with her mom and dad. She also has a sister named Cassie who was supposed to be going to Yale but quit and went to live with her boyfriend in New York. Caitlin meets a boy named Rogerson at a party and they start going out, she is not very happy about the choices that he makes but is so in love she would not leave him. Caitlin starts falling back on school, family and cheer team, which she quit because Rogerson says that she isn’t spending enough time with him. Soon they breakup because Rogerson starts beating Caitlin that she has to go to the hospital. After Rogerson and Caitlin were done Caitlin says “After everything that happened, how could I miss him? But I did, I did”.