Thursday, December 22, 2011

Exit Here: Cross-Book Inquiry

I am currently reading the book Exit here by the author Jason Myers. This book really relates to the college/teenage life and scenecs that would probably appear in any place at any time. Well it seems very closeto the party scenes that you would expect at a college age, which relates  to another book that I have read pretty recently. The book that this book relates to is called Be More Chill, it is similar to this book because it just relates to the social life that is a  hugepart in both books, and for the same fact that they are bothsimilar ages living in our world. They are both searching for something in their life too.

In both books, they seem to be searching for a girl they both seem to always need to find that missing part in their life.Like in Be More Chill,he takes a pill in order to be cooler so he can get this girl of his dreams. The main character in Be More Chill seems to have a verystrong need for the girl to be his girlfriend, without it seems as if his life isn't complete. Also in the current book I am reading now it seems as if the main character, Trevor, is missing something in his life without his old girlfriend Laura. People in the book start to notice it a bit that he seems less excited. It probably is the fact that he doesn't have his old girlfriend like he used to.

In both books it kind of seem that drugs and the party scene is a bad problem in their lives. They both seem to have a dramatic downfall in their lives because of the drugs and craziness that goes on in these parties. Especially for Trevor, Trevor faces serious problems in his life because of this. He started to drop his grades very low, andd it led him to getting arrested. Tome it seems like away to get rid of his loss of Laura. It makes him forget the moments that he;s in and justt forget them as if it never happened, it's his own healing mechanism. For the main character in Be More Chill, it's just tomuch for him to engulf at once,it makes him do things that he's not prepared for. He starts doing crazy things like cheating with a boy's girlfriend.

In conclusion,they are both close because they face similar problems, in life that affect them greatly (in bad terms). They can't seem to face their own problems truly without anything else.

1 comment:

  1. Great post Thierry! I really like that you wrote about how pressure from anything, even getting a girlfriend can cause people to turn to drugs. You did a great job of connecting the two books that you wrote about because of a similar issue.
    Good job!

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