It s Kind Of A Funny Story By Ned Vizzini - 1404 Words

It’s Kind of a Funny Story – Blog 0.5 It is currently 2:23 p.m. four hours before the birthday party was supposed to begin. I march back and forth between isles of the Indigo teen section, briefly scanning each of the shelves before moving on to the next. I’m looking for the perfect book to gift to my friend and it’s exhausting. After looking through multiple dystopian fantasies and lite reads about star crossed lovers with chronic diseases, a pastel yellow book caught my eye. It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini. The name was familiar, it was a movie with Zach Galifianakis and an actress that used to be relevant in 2005. I never saw it, however I was sure I saw a gif on Tumblr about it. I ended up buying the book and making a mental†¦show more content†¦He stops eating and sleeping until one night he falls into a suicidal episode. I have decent expectations for this book, yet I cannot help but feel like this might be another romantici zed 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. It’s Kind of a Funny Story – Blog 1 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. Craig then begins to see a psychiatrist who prescribes him Zoloft. For a brief period, his thoughts shift back to the way they were before. Thinking that he no longer needed to be on Zoloft, he threw them away. His suicidal thoughts build up until he loses it. He calls 1-800-SUICIDE who refer him to a psychiatric hospital. My favourite part so far, about the novel is Craig. He’s raw and authentic, Vizzini does not romanticize Craig’s depression as something that makes you seem cool. Nor does he write Craig to be an adult’s idea of a teenager. Craig and his friends are what makes the novel relatable. There are so many times that me and many other