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We All Looked Up
by Tommy Wallach
What would you do when you know there is a 2/3 chance that the world will end in 6 weeks?
The book is looking for the answer. It is told from the perspective of 4 very different teenagers with different approaches on life and different philosophies, who try to make the best out of their numbered days.
The topic is probably very common, although mostly found in books about cancer. In the novel, we had not only "how to make my life count" but "does it really count" and "what makes my life count", and again, the different understandings were super interesting.
In contrast to Your Typical Cancer Novel, the novel also told how the world in general was reacting, how different groups of society were reacting to the news and how they interpreted the freedom that comes with the seemingly inevitable death.
In the bubble, the main characters were described by labels.
Since I recently watched The Breakfeast Club, I couldn't hinder myself thinking about the message of the film - labels are only superficial, the real you is made of many labels - in comparison to the book. And I think the characters, who probably couldn't be more different, got to see beyond the labels and realise that labels, although to us millenials superior to anything else, aren't that important and there is so much more to a person.
This is one of the messages the book sends very clearly, the others - everything is unimportant and everything counts - are rather ambivalent due to the character's different philosophies.
Still, I think it was very clever by Tommy Wallach to tell the story from different angles, because probably every single reader found someone to identify with. Right in the beginning, a teacher says that it's not the books that talk about something we didn't already know count, but the books that talk about what you thought only you thought about, that give you the feeling that you are not alone.
And I think with the different perspectives he did not only show great creative skills but gave every reader at least a bit the feeling that they are not alone.
The book is looking for the answer. It is told from the perspective of 4 very different teenagers with different approaches on life and different philosophies, who try to make the best out of their numbered days.
The topic is probably very common, although mostly found in books about cancer. In the novel, we had not only "how to make my life count" but "does it really count" and "what makes my life count", and again, the different understandings were super interesting.
In contrast to Your Typical Cancer Novel, the novel also told how the world in general was reacting, how different groups of society were reacting to the news and how they interpreted the freedom that comes with the seemingly inevitable death.
In the bubble, the main characters were described by labels.
Since I recently watched The Breakfeast Club, I couldn't hinder myself thinking about the message of the film - labels are only superficial, the real you is made of many labels - in comparison to the book. And I think the characters, who probably couldn't be more different, got to see beyond the labels and realise that labels, although to us millenials superior to anything else, aren't that important and there is so much more to a person.
This is one of the messages the book sends very clearly, the others - everything is unimportant and everything counts - are rather ambivalent due to the character's different philosophies.
Still, I think it was very clever by Tommy Wallach to tell the story from different angles, because probably every single reader found someone to identify with. Right in the beginning, a teacher says that it's not the books that talk about something we didn't already know count, but the books that talk about what you thought only you thought about, that give you the feeling that you are not alone.
And I think with the different perspectives he did not only show great creative skills but gave every reader at least a bit the feeling that they are not alone.