All The Bright Places
Characters
Author
Symbols
Themes
Protagonists
Antagonists
Types
Flat characters
Theodore Finch
Violet Markey
The suicidal thoughts/
mindset of Finch
Jennifer Niven
Jennifer lives in Los Angeles with her husband Louis Kapeleris.
Jennifer is 50 years old and wrote
All The Bright Places when she was 47
Round Characters
Theodore Finch is a flat character. In the beginning of the book, he wanted to commit suicide. At the end of the book, he did. There’s been no character development whatsoever. His depression increased throughout the book with ups and down, but he ended up the same way he wanted to end up in the very beginning: dead.
Love
Mental health
Finch is a boy who has mental problems. He’s been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, which means that his mood can shift incredibly quickly, which is obvious throughout the book. He can go from happy and totally head over heels with Violet to distant and devestated with no real reason. He’s seeing a therapist but keeps up a facade to convince everyone he’s fine, even if he’s everything but. Finch’s mental problems are in the way of his happiness and the author has described it perfectly.
Violet Markey, unlike Finch, is a round character. In the beginning she was suffering from depression as the aftermath of her sister’s death, where she was present. In the book, she falls in love with Theodore and he helped her get on the right track. At the end of the book she has gotten over her depression and moved on with her life.
All The Bright Places has two very obvious themes, and one of them is love. The main characters, Violet and Theodore (who goes by his last name, Finch) are completely different. She’s popular, he’s not. She’s pretty, he’s the freak - and yet, one thing they share is love. A romance blooms between them because they’re so different, and that’s the beauty in their love story. To love because and despite of everything.
Even though, in the book, Violet
is portrayed as perfect and gorgeous, the
author doesn’t shy away from the dark side
of the it-girl. Due to her sister’s passing, Violet
is so upset that she’s slipped into a depression
that has put its claws in her. She’s gotten quiet,
upset and is balancing on the edge of suicidal -
which is why she was on the bell tower at the
start of the book, not to end her life, but to
envision it happening somehow, anyway.
Jennifer has written more amazing books like: Holding up the universe, American blonde and a book serie of Velva Jean is.
Connotations
Settings
Metaphors
Similes
- “Our mountain is waiting”
It means that their victory is waiting.(pagn.41.) - “This is the most exciting moment I have ever known. I flutter. I ripple. I stream like a plant in the river, flowing this way, flowing that way but rooted so that he may come to me. Come “I say come”.
That means that even do all the odds are against them she is to invested to let him go.( pagn. 76)
I feel like I just walked trought the back of the wardrobe and into Narnia.
Pag ( 103)
It means thats it feels like she is walking into another world. *
The story takes place in a small town called Indiana. The main characters travel to surrounding states a lot throughout the book. The book started in the first week of school, better yet, the characters final year in high school.
The air around us feels charged and electric, like if you were to strike a match, the air, the car. Violet, everything might just explode.
It means that the air between Violet and Finch was tenced and there will be a breaktrough in knowing how they feel for eachother. (pag 199/200)
Point of view
In this book you get to know the point of view from the two main characters, Violet Markey and Theodore Finch.
Tense
The story begins at the start of Violet and Finch’s senior year of high school and ends at the end of that same school year. It takes place in the present tense.