I.

Background Information
A. Information about the novel
1. The book is entitled, “They Both Die at the End”.
2. The book was published on September 15, 2017, by Harper Collins Publishing.
3. Adam Silvera is the New York Times bestselling author of More Happy Than
Not and History Is All You Left Me, and he was named a Publishers Weekly
Flying Start. Adam was born and raised in the Bronx. He was a bookseller
before shifting to children’s publishing and has worked at a literary
development company and a creative writing website for teens and as a book
reviewer of children’s and young adult novels. He is currently living and writing
full time in New York City.
4. Social issues such as sexuality, life and death are typically associated with
adults or mature minds however these issues are tackled in line with young
romance in Adam Silvera's They Both Die at the End. In this story, it is shown
that there is no life without death and love with loss. Death is portrayed as
forthcoming though no one wants to die. Events and actions that people deem
as inconsequential have large impact in the lives of others. Finally, becoming
the person one wants to be without fear and learning the meaning of "to live
and to die.