It shows that we are not just one thing, not just one label, but that our lives are shaped by many aspects and many people. The same goes for a central character having a mental illness, but the mental illness not being the entire story. To those who may not understand what I mean: it is just nice to see representation in the background it normalizes things. It is especially pleasing that, while the LGBT themes are very frequent throughout the book, they aren’t the whole story. It shows that we are not just one thing, not just one label, but that our lives are shaped by many aspects and many people.”Īs one of the few books with LGBT themes out there, it is really heartwarming to see how much literature is diversifying. I guarantee that you’ll fall in love with at least one Will Grayson and hopefully not want to strangle the other and you’ll get to see them fall in love as well. ” You’ll laugh and you’ll cry for your favorite characters, and you’ll learn to overlook the flaws of others (except for one character if you’re like me). My emotions took a few hits during my read of “ Will Grayson, Will Grayson. One Will Grayson meets another, and their lives become intertwined, for better or for worse.
Will and will never would have met if it weren’t for a very horrible night in Chicago, a night of failed love connections and new encounters. The only two people he ever seems to talk to besides his mom are Maura, a girl who writes depressing poetry and who seems to be obsessed with will, and Issac, a boy from Ohio who will is desperately in love with. Will’s chapters are filled with IM-ing and hatred for almost everything and everyone. Levithan writes of a boy suffering from depression, and his stylistic choice of writing in only lowercase letters strengthens the meaning behind the words.
Now the best way I’ve been able to describe will is as a boy who is tragically homosexual. Their adventure begins with a 1990s band called Neutral Milk Hotel, fake IDs, and the cold air of Chicago.īut before we go any further with Will Grayson, let me introduce will grayson, David Levithan’s will grayson (I didn’t forget to capitalize his name this is how it is written in the book). Now Will has Tiny, a boy who is writing a musical about himself and who falls in love with someone new every five seconds and Jane, a girl who may or may not be gay but has a fantastic taste in music, a taste that Will shares himself.
Will loses touch with his “Group of Friends” because of the letter, and his life is turned upside down.
The first two pages of this book draw you in with the type of comedy one would expect from a John Green book, as Will Grayson describes his old friend Tiny Cooper as “the world’s largest person who is really, really gay, and also the world’s gayest person who is really, really large.”
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