“It is lovely to be lovely to the one you love…” - Theodore Finch
Through his seventeen years of life, Theodore Finch has never known love; until he meets Violet Markey. Despite his troubled family life, rivals at school, and misunderstood philosophies, he develops into an affectionate, thoughtful young man who learns to accept most parts of himself. If he had never crossed paths with Violet, he would not have progressed as a character. Following my completion of this novel, I have concluded that when individuals do not feel loved, or the one who they love is taken away from them, they lose the desire to live. This theory derives from several sources from real life and other forms of media. Theodore lives in a family shattered by divorce and has two parents who …show more content…
She tries to understand Finch's sadness and blames it on the divorce and his dad. With his father gone, Finch feels that everyone in the family is "running off in three different directions." His feelings of abandonment slowly contribute to his desire to no longer live. However, he finds self worth as a result of Violet's loving presence; "For once, I don’t want to be anyone but Theodore Finch, the boy she sees. He understands what it is to be elegant and euphoric and a hundred different people, most of them flawed and stupid, part asshole, part screwup, part freak, a boy who wants to be easy for the folks around him so that he doesn’t worry them and, most of all, easy for himself. A boy who belongs—here in the world, here in his own skin. He is exactly who I want to be and what I want my epitaph to say: The Boy Violet Markey Loves" (202). The idea of belonging, especially to someone not blood related, is a prevalent theme in current literature for young adults. In correlation with All the Bright Places, in Paul Zindel's The Pigman, the main characters find a more loving home in lonely man than their own troubled families. This expresses
Through his seventeen years of life, Theodore Finch has never known love; until he meets Violet Markey. Despite his troubled family life, rivals at school, and misunderstood philosophies, he develops into an affectionate, thoughtful young man who learns to accept most parts of himself. If he had never crossed paths with Violet, he would not have progressed as a character. Following my completion of this novel, I have concluded that when individuals do not feel loved, or the one who they love is taken away from them, they lose the desire to live. This theory derives from several sources from real life and other forms of media. Theodore lives in a family shattered by divorce and has two parents who …show more content…
She tries to understand Finch's sadness and blames it on the divorce and his dad. With his father gone, Finch feels that everyone in the family is "running off in three different directions." His feelings of abandonment slowly contribute to his desire to no longer live. However, he finds self worth as a result of Violet's loving presence; "For once, I don’t want to be anyone but Theodore Finch, the boy she sees. He understands what it is to be elegant and euphoric and a hundred different people, most of them flawed and stupid, part asshole, part screwup, part freak, a boy who wants to be easy for the folks around him so that he doesn’t worry them and, most of all, easy for himself. A boy who belongs—here in the world, here in his own skin. He is exactly who I want to be and what I want my epitaph to say: The Boy Violet Markey Loves" (202). The idea of belonging, especially to someone not blood related, is a prevalent theme in current literature for young adults. In correlation with All the Bright Places, in Paul Zindel's The Pigman, the main characters find a more loving home in lonely man than their own troubled families. This expresses