Its Kind of a Funny Story Response
Title: It’s Kind Of A Funny Story
Author: Ned Vizzini
Date Started: 4th April
Date Finished: 6th May
Text Type: Novel
Genre: Drama
Country of Origin: America
Craig Gilner is a clinically depressed teenager. He gets accepted into exclusive school in Manhattan, promising him a good future if he is to excel. The pressure of being the average kid in class, piling up homework, pot smoking “so called” friends and the daily thoughts that he’s a failure beats him down into a deep depression. Craig has trouble keeping his food down and finds himself by his mother’s side when he goes to sleep on a ‘bad’ night. One night he finally decides that he cannot bear living, and that he is to kill himself. Craig doesn’t have the guts to do it at the time but he knows he’s at danger to himself, so he calls a suicide hotline. The operator tells him to check himself in to the nearest hospital. The doctors don’t think much of the state he’s in and tell him to start taking the medication, he stopped taking. He pleads for them to take him in as he can’t stand living on the outside. Craig gets admitted to Sixth North, the psychiatric ward. There he meets a few interesting characters who he befriends over the few days he is there. While there Craig tackles his depression, realising that he has it pretty good in his life compared to most of the patients in there. As some are homeless, waiting to be accepted into homes. Have drug addictions, or a serious problem like thinking the world is upside down. Unexpectedly he finds himself in art, drawing “brain” maps, which he finds he’s really good at. While in hospital Craig changes his outlook on his life, he sees things in different perspectives and learns how to see things in a better light. This story of Ned Vizzini’s may have been his perspective on things while he was in an adult psychiatric ward for 5 days.
Ned Vizzini is clever in using Craig Gilner as a character to give an outlook on depression. Craig shows you the different
Author: Ned Vizzini
Date Started: 4th April
Date Finished: 6th May
Text Type: Novel
Genre: Drama
Country of Origin: America
Craig Gilner is a clinically depressed teenager. He gets accepted into exclusive school in Manhattan, promising him a good future if he is to excel. The pressure of being the average kid in class, piling up homework, pot smoking “so called” friends and the daily thoughts that he’s a failure beats him down into a deep depression. Craig has trouble keeping his food down and finds himself by his mother’s side when he goes to sleep on a ‘bad’ night. One night he finally decides that he cannot bear living, and that he is to kill himself. Craig doesn’t have the guts to do it at the time but he knows he’s at danger to himself, so he calls a suicide hotline. The operator tells him to check himself in to the nearest hospital. The doctors don’t think much of the state he’s in and tell him to start taking the medication, he stopped taking. He pleads for them to take him in as he can’t stand living on the outside. Craig gets admitted to Sixth North, the psychiatric ward. There he meets a few interesting characters who he befriends over the few days he is there. While there Craig tackles his depression, realising that he has it pretty good in his life compared to most of the patients in there. As some are homeless, waiting to be accepted into homes. Have drug addictions, or a serious problem like thinking the world is upside down. Unexpectedly he finds himself in art, drawing “brain” maps, which he finds he’s really good at. While in hospital Craig changes his outlook on his life, he sees things in different perspectives and learns how to see things in a better light. This story of Ned Vizzini’s may have been his perspective on things while he was in an adult psychiatric ward for 5 days.
Ned Vizzini is clever in using Craig Gilner as a character to give an outlook on depression. Craig shows you the different