Depression In All The Bright Places By Jennifer Niven

Depression is a common and very prominent issue in today’s society. Many are fighting a war behind their eyes without anyone around them knowing. In the novel All the Bright Places, by Jennifer Niven, depression and mental illness is a recurring theme. The novel features two main characters that go by the names of Violet and Finch. They are both in their senior years of high school, the difference between them is that Finch can’t wait until death and Violet can’t wait until graduation. The theme or mental illness appears again and again with Finch, he suffers from what we the reader can assume is bipolar disorder. He refers to his normal days free from the clutches of depression as the “awake” and the rest of the time as being “asleep”. Their