It's Kind of a Funny Story 11/4-11/8

Pages: 279- 444 (end)
Prompt Test Readiness: Define what is needed to make a good setting
                                      Spoiler Alert 

                          Ending of It's Kind of a Funny Story
     This weekend I finished the book It's Kind of a Funny Story and overall I really didn't like the book too much. I would give this book a 3 out 5 stars, but at the very end they kind of give a moral or lesson.
The first thing that happened was that Aaron called Craig in the hospital and apologized for all of the mean things he said the other day. Aaron mentions that he broke up with his girlfriend Nia after finding out that she took drugs. The reason Nia took drugs was because of her depression and mental illness and she actually took the same pills that Craig took. Nia visits the hospital and is planning to date Craig but Craig rejects her offer. Throughout the book Craig mentions how much he loves Nia but in the hospital he started dating Noelle. At the end of the book Craig spends his last hour in the hospital watching Blade II with his new hospital friends. Craig is released from the hospital and tells the reader to live, live, and live.



                      Defining the Perfect Setting

      The one thing that I did like about this book was the setting. Craig gives us specific details by telling us that he lives in lower Manhattan and each type of food they give in the hospital. He evens tells us if he lives in the upper or lower part of Manhattan. Craig liked Noelle so much that he gives us some background information about her and even specific details about her eyes. He mentions that she has beautiful green eyes that looks like fresh cut grass. He cuts look like the wrinkly face of an elderly person. The Noelle description has nothing to do with the setting but I just wanted to point how she looks in the book. Anyway the hospital in which Craig is staying seems similar to MacNeal Hospital because of the food. Craig mentions that it's huge hospital that has about 4 to 5 floors and that's exactly how many floors MacNeal has. Since Craig is staying in the part of the hospital that has the people with mental illness I picture a huge nurse's station, food carts, and a public telephone.


                 Recipe for a Perfect Setting/Hospital Setting

     The last few details that Craig mentions about the hospital is that the cafeteria is a huge place lined up with dozens of tables. Since I've been to a hospital cafeteria  they usually have tables of four and other tables that are reserved for other patients. Craig mentions that his table has four seats and that the height of the chair is like 5 ft. I think that some things that make a perfect setting is when the writer tells reader the height of a chair or table. The writer uses the five sense every time the main character goes to a new location or setting. The writer describes each color with feeling such as the buss was so yellow that it looked like one of Zeus lighting bolts. The writer doesn't  just say the old man was very old because a good writer says the old man was old that his wrinkles were growing wrinkles. The writer for example mentions the size of a brick from a building and the texture the brick has. That is what I think makes a perfect setting.

This picture represents the ending of It's Kind of a Funny Story. At the end of the book Craig tells the reader to live, live and be happy for yourself. Throughout the book he was worried about school, future job, and the future. The hospital changed him by making him enjoy life more instead of sitting at home studying. Overall he went from boring to excitement.

       I will comment on Gabe, Steven , Nadrian this week for my blog.