Dante is a teenage boy living in El Paso, Texas. He lives with his mother, and father, and close by is his best friend Aristotle and “Ari” for short. They both are similar and different in many ways, Dante is more secretive than Aristotle, but Aristotle has more rules than Dante. Whenever Dante is feeling an emotion he has no trouble showing it to people around him. He starts the book out feeling lots of negative emotions (Ex - Fury, Sadness, and Guilt) and more towards the end when he starts realizing his true feelings for Ari he starts having less negative emotions and more positive emotions (Ex - Happiness, Love, and Pride). Dante’s emotions bounce around a lot until he and Ari realize their actual feelings for each other. Dante’s fed up with his emotions and he feels lost. Dante is a person going through a maze. A person going through a maze may often share the same emotions that Dante’s encounters. For example Dante and Aristotle …show more content…
An example of these emotions would be when Dante wouldn’t stop crying over Aristotle’s injuries from the accident. Feeling sad is quite a common trait for Dante throughout the book. The author of the book showed how much Dante cared about Aristotle. This was presented in how Dante’s guilt made him miserable about the accident. His guilt made him feel responsible for Aristotle’s injuries. His guilt won’t let him stop asking Aristotle for forgiveness. Dante’s amount of guilt may make him feel as if he were stuck in the middle of a maze not knowing which way to go. When Dante starts to calm down his emotions they start back up again but this time not as strong but his anger starts to flare up again. It's almost being at the end of the maze but you take the wrong turn. His anger returns when they start talking about the accident. Ari telling Dante it wasn’t his fault and Dante feeling guilt and