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Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz an amazing book that has won four awards. Yet it has a simple plot a Young-adult fiction coming of age novel of two unalike teenagers that become friends and their adventures from there on(goodreads). Though it much more than that it hits themes such as friendship, family, self-love and acceptance. Although it is targeted to young adults anyone can fall in love with this story.
Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe is an amazing book about growing up, self- acceptance, opening up, family, friendship and love. Aristotle is a fifteen-year old Mexican American angry loner who has a brother in prison and a withdrawn father with PTSD(Saenz). …show more content…

Like he is very friendly, outgoing, talkative, open, and loving. For anyone that cannot relate to Aristotle can relate to Dante. But most people can relate to both because Dante is representation to the good parts in a person. He does not struggle with communication, he knows who he is and is fine with that person and he lets himself love who he chooses. Although the story is told in Aristotle’s perspective the reader still learns a lot and watches Dante develop. One theme that occurs in the book that I have yet to talk about is homosexuality. This book has four awards two of them have to do with the LGBT+ aspects of this story. Those awards are Stonewall Book Award and Lambda Literary Award. Dante comes out to Ari early in the book and quickly catches feelings for Ari. Although Ari is ok with Dante being gay he is not ok with Dante’s feelings being targeted towards him. This book added the LGBT+ aspect so well it was not too much but it was enough to be a reoccurring theme. It was the perfect add to this story because it really shows how uncomfortable Ari is with himself. It shows teenagers his age that its ok to be gay someone out there still loves you for who you

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