![]() The book’s most beautiful aspect is how it deals with extremely weighty topics and complex emotions, but is rarely depressing. The novel details Gilner’s stay at the ward – the highs and lows, the parts that make you cry and the parts that make you laugh. From each of these people, Gilner learns something more about the human condition. ![]() A variety of other patients interact with him throughout his five days at the hospital, from drug addicts to a man who refuses to leave his bed. Ned Vizzini’s casual but impactful masterpiece It’s Kind of a Funny Story made me remember how much I love novels after a stressful semester of school during which I barely read.Īt the beginning, clinically depressed teenager Craig Gilner considers attempting suicide but instead checks himself into a psychiatric ward. Like in ‘Animal Farm,’ which I read, all animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others? Here in the real world, all equals are created animal, but some are more animal than others.” “We’re all animals, high school is animals, but some of us are more animal than others. His are still full of death and horror, but in them I see my face reflected, and inside my tiny eyes inside his, I think I see some hope.” “We look into each other’s eyes as we shake. “Life can’t be cured, but it can be managed.” ![]() ![]() Quotes from “It’s Kind of a Funny Story” by Ned Vizzini ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |