Boy Meets Boy

Transported both forward and backward in time, to a town where the songs are still records, candy is still a dime, but everyone excepts each other for who they truly are, there is a fifteen-year-old gay boy named Paul. Paul lives in a fictional town in the fictional novel Boy Meets Boy written by David Levithan. Boy Meets Boy is a good book because it’s diverse characters and descriptive language. In the small town, there lives a colorful group of friends. Paul the main character and speaker of the story, Noah Paul’s love interest that he wants to have a boyfriend, Tony Paul’s best friend who is gay and has overly religious parents, Infinite Darlene a drag queen who’s also the school's star quarterback and one of Paul’s close friends, Kyle Paul’s ex who
This allows for more people to find someone in the book to connect to. This is especially true for this book because it gives light to the people we don’t normally see around ourselves, such as closet cases, drag queens, and bisexuals. ““I still like girls” “so?” “And I also like guys”” (Levithan, 85). Another reason the novel is good is because it’s descriptive language. Though the author does tend to occasionally overdo it, the descriptive language is helpful in understanding the text and thought processes in Paul’s mind. It helps us better understand the strange town around the protagonists and understand the inner struggle he faces as he gains and loses friends. “This close, I can see through all her layers. Beneath the mascara and the lipstick and the chicken pox scar on her lower lip, beneath the girl and the boy to the person within, who is confused and sincere. I wonder if she can see through my layers as well, right through my badly held peace to all of the love confusion underneath” (Levithan, 106). Overall Boy Meets Boy is a good book because of its descriptive language and diverse