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Elements of The Story
Elements of The Story
CONFLICT:
The internal conflict occurs between Theodore Finch and himself and Violet Markey and herself. The external conflict occurs
Theodore Finch and other people, such as Violet Markey, his mother, his father, Roamer, the teacher, friends, and his enemies.
DIALOGUE:
“The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.” “We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
“The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.”
“The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.”
THEME:
The main themes are suicide, death, grief and the mood varies throughout the Film.
PLOT:
Theodore Finch and Violet Markey are two teenagers who badly want to escape from their small Indiana town of Bartlett. Violet is
a popular girl who is secretly dealing with survivor's remorse, and Finch is a boy obsessed with death, labeled a freak by his peers.
CLIMAX:
The climax starts with a bottle of sleeping pills, one night, as Finch is in a terrible, desperate state of mind, he takes too many,
realizing what he has done, he literally runs to an emergency room. After he is alright, he goes to a support group for suicidal
teenagers called 'life is life'.