"Life."
Craig is a freshman in high school when the "shift" happens. Craig suddenly becomes depressed and can't eat or focus. This quote shows that Craig is suicidal. This sentence is what Craig tries to deal with for the rest of the book, trying to make life into something that is not a nightmare. Craig goes to a very elite private high school that only turns like into a bigger nightmare. With homework piling up each week.
I think that later on in the novel as the plot develops more Craig will make his life into something much better than a nightmare, either by joining an activity, meeting a girl, or just solving it with himself. Craig was talking to his therapist when he said this so I think that he might get depression pills to take. This is the most important line from this chapter because it shows that Craig has a bad perception of the world, and of life. This line shows that life makes him stressed out. I also predict that Craig is going to get worse before he gets better, that he might become very depressed before he is happy again.
I really like how you make predictions on what will happen next and how he will get through his struggles. Good job!
ReplyDeleteI agree with Allison about the predictions, it's a good strategy. Also I like the picture because it gives us a visual of morecontext of the page.
ReplyDeleteI have a feeling that Craig is going through a life stage that changes his life and I know that a simple adjustment such as looking at things in a different way can make people happier in an instant. I feel that because of depression, it creates a domino effect that isn't easily reversed, so becoming happy again takes more than twice the effort used to make one depressed, but yes all in all, aid from a therapist can help and of course, if Craig ever becomes happy again, he must go through depression first since he already is.
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