Summary Of It's Kind Of A Funny Story By Craig Gliner

High school is a big time for change in a teenagers life. They go through problems with friends, family, grades, and sports. For Andy Jackson, a 17 year old student at Hazelwood High School, he went through all of those troubles. He plays for the basketball team with his friends Rob Washington, Tyrone Mills, and B.J. Carson. One night after basketball practice, Andy was drinking alcohol and driving which led them to get in a car crash. Andy, Tyrone, and B.J. escaped the car with a few cuts and bruises, but Rob got stuck and burned to death. Rob’s death brought Andy to blame himself. He turns away from his friends, his girlfriend, Keisha, and his family. Andy changes negatively after the car crash; he becomes insecure, he closes up his feelings, and he turns emotionally weak.

When he gets to the school he goes to the gym to see all of the students at the school this year, and when he walks in he sees Chris immediately. Later that day Coach Fulton goes to the lady in charge of all of the student records, and finds out that Chris came from a high school in Indianapolis, but he is disappointed when he finds out that Chris didn’t put basketball as an extracurricular activity. So after about a week Coach Fulton decides to call Chris’s old coach in Indianapolis to see why Chris doesn’t play basketball. When he calls him he learns about Chris’s accident, and finds out that that is the reason that Chris doesn’t play basketball anymore. Chris’s accident was just that an accident where the player that got hurt was out of position, and when Chris was going for a rebound Chris hit him with his elbow in the eye socket. This left the player temporarily blind in that eye, but after surgery he was able to regain his eyesight. After the accident Chris made a promise that he wouldn’t play basketball again, and his parents decided to move him to a new

Feeling worthless is an abnormal trait because people tend to be less interested in any form of social activity. Stress also played a major part in Craig’s depressiveness. In the movie, we see the amount of stress being placed on him by his dad in other to finish a University application that he wasn’t so much interested in. Stress is considered abnormal when inappropriate, excessive, or prolonged relative to the person’s situation. (Nevid, 2012. P. 420). (Word count 297)

5.  On page 38, John Danalis says he had “something sensitive” to discuss with Craig. Briefly recount what it was.

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.

The story begins with introducing Greg’s school life, his goal in high school is not to make any friends so he can’t be judged, criticized, and disliked. Greg is also insecure about himself which is stopping him from being truly alive. Greg only has one friend in school named Earl Jackson, another senior at his school which they share the love of filmmaking and they make shorts about their favorite movies. But Greg and Earl never show any of their films to anyone.

So his mom got him into a art school he loved it but then there were two bullies who also loved him and their names where zeke and kenny but rafe also made a freind his name is maddy and he is a troublemaker. Anyway maddy invited rafe to some fun he was going to water balloon zeke and maddie new rafe was gonna want in so rafe said yes and they went to the top of the school and

To have hope is to be able to see the light amid the darkness. This is a notion shown in Ned Vizzini’s “It’s Kind of a Funny Story”. The protagonist is a teenage boy named Craig, who struggles with depression. One night, Craig checks himself into a hospital because of his suicidal thoughts. He then gets placed in the adult psychiatric ward called Six North. The novel “It’s Kind of a Funny Story” demonstrates that it is crucial to remain positive during hard times as there will be better days, with the usage of conflicts and characters. This is important because everyone undergoes hardships at some point in their life and must be able to prevail.

I have decent expectations for this book, yet I cannot help but feel like this might be another romanticized novel about depression and that Craig will just be another idealized character. Nonetheless, I am excited to finally have the chance to read the novel and share the experience with you.

Scott overhears Kelly, Julia’s best friend, asking Julia is she finished her book review. The only people that do book reviews is the club that writes the school newspapers. Therefore, Scott decides to join the school newspaper club, so he can try to get closer to Julia, only to learn that Julia was a guest and never actually joined the club. Scott also finds out that Kelly and Julia are planning to join the drama club. By giving Scott another chance to get closer to Julia, he decides to join the drama club. After a horrible performance, Scott joins the stage crew, later to find out that Julia did not even make the cut. After failing twice trying to get closer to Julia, Scott finds out that Julia is running for student council. So again, Scott decided to run too. As usual, Julia does not make student council and Scott does. With piles of homework, a new baby brother on the way, and tons of activities to do Scott is barely getting enough sleep. After learning how hard starting high school was for him, Scott decides to start a survival guide for his upcoming younger brother. Later in the year, a new girl, named Lee, comes to J.P. Zenger High

Ned Vizzini does a fantastic job on making sure the main character is not the least yet boring. Craig struggles with lots of depression, but he is more than just a depressed teenage male. He is crazy smart, which is shown in a variety of ways, from his school to the way he thinks things out. To show, Craig wants to get his lady friend Noelle alone in his room, but Craig’s roommate, Muqtada, is in there. He lures Muqtada out of his room for the first time ever by playing his favorite kind of Egyptian music. Craig

His friend, Aaron throws a party which people get drunk and smoke pot. Craig falls asleep during the party and wakes up around 2:30 in the morning. The two friend goes to walk to Craig’s house even though it’s across the Brooklyn Bridge. Craig gets this stupid idea to get on top of the bridge and walks across it with traffic below. He yells “Eulalia,” because of a book he read that used that as a battle cry. That’s when he starts to gain

This newly discovered offbeat comedy about a psychologically disturbed former actor, who decides to help problematic teenagers at Grusin High, is the first full-length feature from Canadian Pat Mills, who also stars as the main character. He confidently plays his alter ego, David Gold, who a promising TV star in his childhood, but was completely forgotten in his adulthood. He doesn’t have an acting role for so long that he decides to apply for a school guidance counselor job under the stolen identity of Dr. Roland Brown, whom he studied thoroughly. Moreover, the sudden, direct, insolent, and occasionally furious David, who was also diagnosed with skin cancer, has serious problems with alcohol, exhibits immoral behaviors, and still lives in

Irrepressibly funny, but almost by default, Little Failure is a record of existential homelessness, of living in a midpoint between two different countries and identities. Gary Shteyngart tells his story where he persists in regarding himself as a failure. In a more autobiographical way, he prosecutes his permanent disagreement with himself, with his family, with Russia (that would probably have killed him if he had stayed there), and with America (that even more unforgivably saved his life).

The year was 2009. It was a nice clear warm August day. The whistle blew and I lined up by the doors to the cafeteria. Now that I was in fifth grade I felt so much older than the fourth graders standing beside me. I was small and unaware of the big year I was about to experience.