In the foreword of the novel, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, there is a quote that reads: “But it’s so much more than a book about depression. It’s about the promise of hope, strength, and the desire to live” (Cohn 1). This quote describes the feeling of the whole novel, which is about a kid named Craig Gilner who is battling depression, but also figuring out who he desires to be. Consequently, you’ll soon detect that Craig has an unexplainable strength that he doesn’t think he has till later through his journeys through a psychiatric hospital. In this journal I will be evaluating the person that is Craig Gilner, visualizing the psychiatric hospital he sojourns in, and predicting what choice he will compose when it comes to his life. To begin, Craig is exceedingly strong; even if he doesn’t believe he is in the story, he is as strong as a mother of four with children all under the age of 6.(: Furthermore, Craig goes …show more content…
The novel started off portraying Craig as someone who does not apprehend the point of living. Typically, he wondered “Who are we living for?” and “What are we here to do?” way too often. Craig Gilner is a depressed teenager, an art-loving nerd, and a person who just longs to know why certain affairs happen the way they do.(: However, through his journey at the psychiatric hospital it is not fatiguing to notice that he feels as if he is becoming a better version of himself. Eventually, he has a conversation with his friend Aaron and Aaron tells Craig to not kill himself and Craig says, “I won’t. I’ll see you soon man” (Vizzini 398). From this quote, one can predict that Craig is beginning to come to a pleasant point in his life and that he will not wish to terminate his life anytime in the near future. Since the beginning of the novel, Craig has made extensive strides in his happiness and one can understand that he is ready to take on the real