In the book Challenger Deep the author adds purpose to how he wrote it. Throughout the book the author changes the mood from time to time. When the author was creating the book he wanted to show what it’s like to have schizophrenia as a kid. “ Well, it’s just that… there’s this kid at school… I think he wants to kill me” is a way to how somebody with schizophrenia acts and feels about certain things they are worried about(shusterman 6). The author shows how each person with schizophrenia can hallucinate different things. Caden believes that “even before there was a ship, there was the captain” which shows that Caden hallucinates about a ship and another person could be hallucinating about something different(Shusterman 1).
