Who Is Theodore Finch In All The Bright Places

The book All the Bright Places is about two polar opposites coming together and falling in love. Theodore Finch is a “freak” who was fascinated with death, and liked to cause a scene. Nobody at school likes him, and he has blackouts that he refuses to tell anyone about. He is just the freak nobody likes, until he wanders to the top of the bell tower at school just to know the feeling of standing on the ledge, and he meets Violet. Violet was a happy, popular girl that everyone liked her. She was happy with her life, until her sister died in a car accident. Violet and her sister, Eleanor were driving home from a party and Violet told Eleanor to take the bridge home. The bridge ices before the road, and the car slipped and Eleanor died. Violet blames herself and now, she is broken. Without thinking, she goes to the top of the bell tower and stands on the ledge, and when she realizes what
When Finch goes home, he walks into a house where his mom only really talks to him and his two sisters at dinner to ask what they learned. She feels she’s doing good because at least she talks to them more than their father. Finch’s father? They visit him for dinner every Sunday with his new family that he doesn’t abuse physically and mentally. Everytime Finch and his sisters’ go to their father’s house, they break a little more inside. Finch is jealous of a seven year old boy, because clearly Finch must’ve done something wrong for his dad to hate him so much. Violet, on the other hand, goes home to two loving parents who are trying to help pick up all of Violet’s broken pieces. But, Violet is distant, tells her parents she’s had a good day and that she’s okay, even if she’s not, just so she doesn’t have to talk. Violet’s parents try very hard to help her, which is something that Finch will never know of because his parents don’t care enough to