Abdulaziz Albeaijan
Professor: Emily Havey
ENG113A
15 October, 2014
Sexuality And Identity
The novel “The Realm of Possibility” by `David Levithan is a unique book which is characterized by intricate themes. It is presented as a collection of different interrelated free verse monologues that give a story of twenty teenagers struggling with challenges faced during adolescent life. Their stories are sad, touching and meaningful. Each chapter narrates its own moment and each of the twenty chapters is narrated by a singular teenager (Levithan). The novel invokes sympathy to all of them given that they all had issues that deserved pity. As a result, their common desire to fight back their personal problems drives them into seeking acceptance …show more content…
By extension, it provides an insight into how young young adults think about themselves and what other people perceive about them. The irony of the narration is that those around them do not seem to know what goes on. As a result, these teens are left to solve their own problems while talking about themselves, the characters find themselves disclosing information about others which they thought was a secret only for every person in the bunch to realize how seriously it collectively affects them all. This serves to remind the readers that it is possible for people to have diverse perspectives on the same …show more content…
Jed appears the most outgoing and she is seen to know all the characters and she becomes a link between them. Jed is also intelligent as she retrospectively announces that everything around them was once seemingly impossible. This is a clear indication that at one point in time, these teenagers were all innocent before the onset of puberty until life changed them.
As an analysis of the plot, many events are taking place in the novel. There are major internal conflicts whereby each of the 20 characters featured in the novel appear to have issues all pertaining to sexually active relationships. These conflicts by extension affect their mind to an extent that they decide to go public about the issues. The characters are found struggling with challenges of relationships as seen during adolescent while the world around them remains totally oblivious of the struggles.
In this regard the theme of sexuality is portrayed as the most dominant and the central idea behide the story, yet the writer in his appeal does not seem immoral as other writers would have made it to appear. It is assumed that this is a part of society and it subsides on its own. Hence in the long run, the plot makes the theme to appear natural and
Professor: Emily Havey
ENG113A
15 October, 2014
Sexuality And Identity
The novel “The Realm of Possibility” by `David Levithan is a unique book which is characterized by intricate themes. It is presented as a collection of different interrelated free verse monologues that give a story of twenty teenagers struggling with challenges faced during adolescent life. Their stories are sad, touching and meaningful. Each chapter narrates its own moment and each of the twenty chapters is narrated by a singular teenager (Levithan). The novel invokes sympathy to all of them given that they all had issues that deserved pity. As a result, their common desire to fight back their personal problems drives them into seeking acceptance …show more content…
By extension, it provides an insight into how young young adults think about themselves and what other people perceive about them. The irony of the narration is that those around them do not seem to know what goes on. As a result, these teens are left to solve their own problems while talking about themselves, the characters find themselves disclosing information about others which they thought was a secret only for every person in the bunch to realize how seriously it collectively affects them all. This serves to remind the readers that it is possible for people to have diverse perspectives on the same …show more content…
Jed appears the most outgoing and she is seen to know all the characters and she becomes a link between them. Jed is also intelligent as she retrospectively announces that everything around them was once seemingly impossible. This is a clear indication that at one point in time, these teenagers were all innocent before the onset of puberty until life changed them.
As an analysis of the plot, many events are taking place in the novel. There are major internal conflicts whereby each of the 20 characters featured in the novel appear to have issues all pertaining to sexually active relationships. These conflicts by extension affect their mind to an extent that they decide to go public about the issues. The characters are found struggling with challenges of relationships as seen during adolescent while the world around them remains totally oblivious of the struggles.
In this regard the theme of sexuality is portrayed as the most dominant and the central idea behide the story, yet the writer in his appeal does not seem immoral as other writers would have made it to appear. It is assumed that this is a part of society and it subsides on its own. Hence in the long run, the plot makes the theme to appear natural and