Finch In All The Bright Places By Jennifer Niven

The best book I’ve read this quarter is All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven. The main characters are Violet Markey and Theodore Finch, or Finch as his friends call him. Finch has always been the impertinent, emotional boy, or ‘Freak’ as his classmates called him. He never really had many friends besides Charlie, who, like everybody else, didn’t really understand Finch. But when Finch met Violet on top of the school bell tower while she was contemplating suicide, he began to think he found someone out there that could grasp his eccentric way of viewing the world, not to mention the episodes of sadness he goes through. In addition, Violet had been struggling with depression too. With the overbearing sadness due to the loss of her sister,

But when things began to slow down, Finch took charge and paired up with Violet for a geography project on the “Great Landmarks of Indiana” so he could get even more involved with Violet. They were supposed to find 5 different places in Indiana that were worth seeing, and write a paper about why they were important. Doing this together meant that Violet and Finch would be spending a lot of time with each other. Violet’s serene and quiet demeanor towards everything she did began to engross all of Finch’s attention. Violet was all Finch cared about, which distracted him from his deranged family problems, but also from himself. Finch used his wit and gentle love to help Violet conquer her grief, but that did nothing to help his own undiagnosed mental illness that seemed to be eating away at what little sanity he had left. It had been almost 6 months since Finch’s last episode of deep, dark depression, so when it suddenly started up again, Violet got scared. She got even more scared when she learned Finch tried to overdose, and almost died. That was when Violet made the precarious but needed decision to tell him he needed