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- - - - On page 87 there is a sketch that Caden made that reads "Don't walk with". There are other scribbles and miscellaneous words thrown in the drawing, but that seems to be the main message. This comes at a time in the book where his anxiety is at a high and walking is his only escape from it, but his family who only knows about his pacing, not his walking, tries to portray it as a bad thing.
    - - The drawing that stuck out the most to me was the drawing on page 309, the last page of the book. This drawing takes up the whole page and seems to be a moshpit of random shapes and lines drawn across a page with no real importance. This sticks out because the topic of discussion on the page before is about how Caden realizes that "He is always waiting, I realize. He will never go away. And in time, I may find myself his first mate whether I want to or not...". This refers to his journey with mental illness wherein he realizes that he may relapse, but is ready for it and will always fight to be better. This drawing, while random, doesn't seem as chaotic as some before it in the book and gives me the sense that it represents the peace that Caden has found within himself.
  - - - Another example of purposeful confusion is on page 33, where the book cuts from the story of the voyage to a questionnaire that has presumably been given out by the captain. The contents of the questionnaire seem to be random and have no connection to other questions or either of Caden's stories. At the end of the questionnaire the reader is thrown straight back into the story of Caden's life without any context to what happened or why.
    - - The first example of this happens right away on page 1. The book starts with the line "There are two things you know. One: You were there. Two: You couldn't have been there". The book continues with seemingly random sentences strung together to form incoherent chapters that make up the first section of the book.
- - - - On page 179 the chapter is titled "The skin of who we were". This shows Caden's struggles within the real world which is a subject that doesn't get addressed often without being in Caden's mind. This shows Caden being in touch with himself and his issues within the outside world, which is an important step for him to take.
    - - On page 258 the chapter is titled "Like he never existed". This encapsulates Caden's despair at the situation of Hal's death, while again addressing the situation within the real world instead of inside his mind.
  - - - My favorite example of this is from chapter 82, starting on page 143. Caden is getting an MRI in reality, but in the world in his mind he believes that he is cleaning a cannon. He describes how the MRI feels and what goes through his mind in the moment, while also confusing the reader as to why he continues to see things in this way. This is the first time that there is a real tangible connection between the voyage and reality, which sets up the rest of the book nicely to represent Caden's internal struggles.
    - - In chapter 156 starting on page 295 there is another good example of this. In reality Caden is in the middle of his final downward spiral before he finally decides to pick himself up and try harder to get better. This downward spiral is represented as the end of his voyage and pictured as an actual spiral of water downward to Challenger Deep. This shows off the symbolism of the world in Caden's mind very well because of the way that the author portrays the voyage's end as a new beginning in reality for Caden.