The Tragedy Paper

The Tragedy Paper is a story that starts with an albino, teenage boy named Tim telling his side of a tragedy that shook an entire high school for years to come. Tim tells his tragic story through a series of CDs that are given to another teenage boy named Duncan. The book itself revolves around a tragedy that no one dares to speak of while being tied together with a teenage romance. The book keeps the interest of the younger readers and serves a good purpose for learning about tragic stories. I believe that The Tragedy Paper should continue to be taught every year and remain on the FCCC’s junior English curriculum because it is relatable, it teaches tragedy, and helps you learn from the mistakes of others.
The Tragedy Paper is more relatable to our age group. The problems they face in the book are also the problems we go through today. Some of these problems include: relationships, drinking, and the immense pressure to fit in with your peers. The main teenage …show more content…
A part of junior English is learning about modern tragedies, which this book happens to be. In the book, the students are assigned a tragedy paper and learn how to relate situations to a tragedy. While being entertained by the story itself, were also learning about what a tragedy is and how to relate it to real life events. This story is a tragedy itself because it follows a specific tragic story arc. The tragic story arc includes the peripeteia, climax, anagnorisis, catastrophe, and the resolution. “The peripeteia is the reversal of fortune and the Anagnorisis is the discovery or recognition” (sparknotes.com). In this story, the peripeteia is when Tim’s eyes are starting to go bad and the anagnorisis is when they are going down the hill and he realizes he is going blind. This story would not include those parts of a tragic story arc if it was not a tragedy. The tragic story plot points are easy to identify and easily indicates that the story is a