Essay On It's Kind Of A Funny Story By Rand Vizzini

Although some people may think this book overexaggerates the stress in a teen’s life, , the author just tries to show the perspective of one teen’s life. The book shows that everyone has their own story and every teen experiences different things, rather good or bad. The book educates readers on teenagers and what some may experience, as well as provides solutions for the hectic lives teenagers may face. Whether a teen uses poetry, like Gabi, to challenge emotions or other activities, teenagers can all relate to each other with the stressful, hormonal life they all

It’s kind of a funny story is about Craig Gliner a very studious teenager is eager to have a good life, to do that he has the pressure of getting into the correct highschool that will put his best foot forward for the future on the way to finding the right High School he meets this boy named Aaron and nia, He ends up having a slight crush on nia, who is arons girlfriend, aron is his best friend .Craig regularly sees a psychiatrist and gets put on the medication zoloft an antidepressant and after a while he decides to stop taking his medication. His dream highschool is Executive Pre-Professional High School, he puts himself under enormous pressure and begins to stop eating and sleeping. He ends up getting into his dream High School but that

This movie is mainly about a sixteen year old kid named Craig Gilner. Craig is a young kid who comes from a pretty normal family, has friends, goes to school and has somewhat a social life, but yet still suffers a psychological disorder known as depression. This disorder Craig is battling with makes him afraid he might commit suicide, so he seeks help by going to a psychiatric facility having the mindset that he would be prescribed some drugs or at most treated that same day. Little did he know that he was going to be checked into the facility and had minimum of 5 days before he could be discharged. While in this facility he encountered different types

Have you ever read a book with so much irony that it knocks your socks off? Irony takes place in all these stories we are talking about. The Merriam-Webster definition of irony is “the use of words to express something other than, and especially the opposite, of the literal meaning.” These stories will keep you wondering what’s going to happen and when you least expect it, irony will come out of no where and surprise the reader. In the short stories, “The Veldt,” “Just Lather, That’s All,” and “The Ransom of Red Chief,” Irony is active throughout the whole story.

How parents act towards you affects how you act towards other people. In the book Okay for Now by Gary Schmidt, Doug’s father causes many problems for Doug and the family. When Doug has to move to a new town because of his father’s job, he has to start a new life. Doug not only has to deal with going to a new school but he also had to deal with his hard family life that his dad causes them.

Homeroom Diaries In Homeroom Diaries, by James Patterson and Lisa Papademetriou, Cuckoo, a 16 year old girl, has experienced a lot of tragedy. Her dad abandoned her when she is young, and her mom left her a few months ago, but her friends were always there for her. However, when things get tough, for the whole Freakshow, not just Cuckoo, their friendship is tested. But in the end, when you have a friendship as strong as the Freakshow’s, you don’t give up on each other.

Everyday Craig Gilner studied laboriously to get into the high school of his dreams. When he finally does get into Manhattan’s Executive Pre-Professional High School the pressure becomes unbearable. He feels inadequate to his overachieving peers, academically and socially. The stress then evolves into an eating disorder, poor sleep habits, drug use, depression and suicidal thoughts.

From the moment I picked up the book It’s Kind of a Funny Story, the straight-forward, relatable voice of Ned Vizzini, the author, caught my attention and made me want to read on. With the simple language of a teenager and imagery so descriptive that made me feel like I was there in Craig’s depressed brain, experiencing the ups-and-downs of his life, some parts began to sound strangely familiar. Like Craig, I feel as if everyone else around me is so much smarter, talented, and better at life than me, but unlike Craig, I do not feel it to the point where it is depressing me so much that I want to kill myself.

Anything to do with the word “adolescence” sucks. For 15-year-old Craig Gilner this is an inalienable truth. To him, it opens the floodgates of navigating friendships, rejection, and self doubt. Craig is the protagonist of It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini. It’s Kind of a Funny Story takes place in Manhattan, New York and is a memoir which recounts the events of Vizzini’s emotional decline under the guise of the protagonist.

The novel “It’s Kind of a Funny Story” by Ned Vizzini says a lot about adolescent mental illness and how teenagers cope with stress. The main character, Craig Gilner, is a freshman in the Executive Pre-Professional High School, the most prestigious school in his area. He studied for weeks to pass the test to get in, but once he succeeded he felt overwhelmed by school work and anxiety until he stopped eating, started doing drugs, and eventually admitted himself into a mental health ward for suicidal thoughts. Of course, I’ve never experienced that kind of severe depression or been in a mental ward, but I could easily relate to Craig as a teenager with my fair share of school-related stress. Craig shared a lot of qualities with me, like his ambition, social life, and many aspects of his personality.

I am reading It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini and I am on page 140. This book is about Craig Gilner who suicidal. In this journal I will be questioning and

The book, It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini features a teen boy named Craig, who suffers from depression. Craig goes to regular therapy lessons in an attempt to ‘cure’ his sadness and intense amount of stress. Vizzini describes this stress admirably by showing Craig’s thought process. This quote stood out because of the way Craig describes his stresses as a made up term, Tentacles. Vizzini allows the reader to see how Craig’s anxiety can affect his decisions, and how much thought goes into each and every choice he makes. This reveals a significant part to Craig’s character. Vizzini writes, “[...] which meant I’d get depressed, and that was the big one because I knew what that did to me: it made it so I wouldn’t get out of bed, which

Over 350 million people suffer from depression worldwide. It’s Kind of a Funny Story, written by Ned Vizzini, is a realistic fiction novel about a high schooler named Craig Gilner who struggles with depression and suicidal thoughts. This story was a great read and for multiple reasons. Vizzini does a great job of making Craig, the protagonist, a very interesting character, and the novel itself is very relatable to anyone who is/was a student. Craig has many intriguing qualities that are hard to ignore.

As Kasy just got out of a mental institute and is headed to school she “... can’t do this anymore” (22). After going through so much, the expectation to act normal is expected from her peers, which tends to overwhelm her. Kasy is very perturb that she will disappoint not only her peers, but herself too. Carter, Alexis’s boyfriend, is described as an emotional and curious character. Once Alexis is swirled into paranormal activity, Carter has no clue. As he strives to figure out “...what’s going on” (337), he encounters something he wished he’d just left alone. After all curiosity does kill the cat. All in all, the worried actions the characters take make this book completely different from the

I remember one incredibly funny day from last year. It was the day I fell through the glass display case at school. Boy, I tell you that sucked so bad. I know for a fact I’ll never live it down. I’m known for being pretty accident prone so it was no surprise to people when they found out I was the one who had left the blood stain in the hallway.