Throughout this semester I read the books 1984, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, and Let’s Get Lost. They were all very different from each other but you could connect them all through one common theme: feeling trapped. Whether it was set in a dystopian futuristic society, or normal modern day life, you could see the theme present in each book.
In the beginning of 1984 by George Orwell, Winston has a gut instinct not to trust Big Brother, but Big Brother controls him. His every move is being watched through Telescreens and any act against Big Brother is punishable by death. He wants to escape this control but he would get caught so he’s trapped, he has to remain loyal and do as he is told. In It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini, the main character, Craig, is trapped too but in a different way. He is trapped in his depression. He remembers a …show more content…
He wants to just snap his fingers and go back to that but it’s easier said than done. He’s waiting for his doctors and therapists to “just cure him already”, one day he’ll walk into their office and they’ll say “this is what’s wrong with you ….” and he’ll be happy again. But that’s not how it works, so he’s trapped in his uncontrollable unhappiness. In the book Let’s Get Lost by Adi Alsaid, the main character, Leila, feels like she’s missing something. She sets out on a journey by herself to try and find that. You find out later in the book (spoiler alert), that she was in a bad car accident when she was younger. Both of her parents were in the car and neither of them made it. She had bad brain damage that made her lose her memory but one thing she remembered was her dad always telling her about the northern lights. So on her journey she sets out to go north and see the lights. Lelia, in a way, is trapped because of her memory loss and her
In the beginning of 1984 by George Orwell, Winston has a gut instinct not to trust Big Brother, but Big Brother controls him. His every move is being watched through Telescreens and any act against Big Brother is punishable by death. He wants to escape this control but he would get caught so he’s trapped, he has to remain loyal and do as he is told. In It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini, the main character, Craig, is trapped too but in a different way. He is trapped in his depression. He remembers a …show more content…
He wants to just snap his fingers and go back to that but it’s easier said than done. He’s waiting for his doctors and therapists to “just cure him already”, one day he’ll walk into their office and they’ll say “this is what’s wrong with you ….” and he’ll be happy again. But that’s not how it works, so he’s trapped in his uncontrollable unhappiness. In the book Let’s Get Lost by Adi Alsaid, the main character, Leila, feels like she’s missing something. She sets out on a journey by herself to try and find that. You find out later in the book (spoiler alert), that she was in a bad car accident when she was younger. Both of her parents were in the car and neither of them made it. She had bad brain damage that made her lose her memory but one thing she remembered was her dad always telling her about the northern lights. So on her journey she sets out to go north and see the lights. Lelia, in a way, is trapped because of her memory loss and her