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Tyler, the main character, thinks his life is falling apart. He's being accused of committing a crime he had nothing to do with, his father isn't the best, his mother is upset, and he might just be losing his best friend. I wanted to draw an interpretation of his life falling apart, because that was a big part of this book. I shaded the entire page dark gray to sort of represent how his life was already pretty dark before anything started happening. I thought of his life like a piece of cloth. Every time something bad happened, the cloth tore and fell apart. Eventually, you can see what's underneath the cloth -- you can see all the badness that caused it to tear.
In the tears in the cloth, I wrote quotes from the book that show the different events causing his life to suck. "Migraine," represents Tyler's mother. His mom is very upset, I guess is the best way to phrase it. She resents her husband because of the things he does. She ends up arguing with him so much she drinks and gets migraines. Tyler knows why she gets them and it makes him hate his father even more. The tears in the lower left corner say, "Don't help." Tyler's best friend was trying to help him get through his problems. Tyler tells him not to help him because he'll just make everything worse in the end. I made that corner of the cloth not completely torn. You can see their are small fragments left. I did that to show that even though Tyler had hurt his friend, his friend still wanted to be there for him when Tyler needed it.
One of the larger sections says "I didn't do it. I didn't do it." Tyler is being accused of a crime he did not commit but it seems all he can say is that he didn't do it. There's no evidence to prove he didn't do it. It's all he can say in his defense. I made that section really big because it one of the things really tearing him apart. He's being accused of hurting someone he genuinely loved and cared about, but no one believes him. The other large section has multiple quotes in it. They're all quotes from when Tyler had spurts of violent thoughts or actions. A lot of those quotes came from moments where Tyler was fighting or when he was having thoughts of violence against his father. His father, who was in one way or another, connected to all the events.
On another note, this was a really good book and you should totally read it because it was such a really good book. Like really good.
Good book.
Like really good.
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