Me And Earl And The Dying Girl Analysis

In 2012 Jesse Andrew wrote the young adult novel Me and Earl and The Dying Girl. A boy’s mom forces him to hang out with a dying girl. Eve Ensler wrote I Am An Emotional Creature in 2010. Most young girls feel pressure to please others and lose their own voices in the process. Andrew uses dialogues and film script to show the introverted young adult like to hide themselves rather than expose themselves in coming-of-age. Ensler uses poems, monologues, fact and short stories to show the outside world have been oppressed girls’ want for a long time rather than releases the nature of girls. Greg, an ambivalent boy, who cannot associate with anyone. He can shun to be judged, to be laughed or to be detested by avoiding making friends to hide himself.

It sounds ridiculous the reason that Greg does not want to attend college. Andrew use dialogue to show Greg’s attitude to college with the information that “Do you have any interest in going on a-a college tour? Uh, not really” (Andrew 184) For Greg, attends college means he has to expose himself into the more complicated groups than high school. Andrew also uses some example like Mr. McCarthy warns Greg that his grades were falling and hard to get into college, to show what Greg actually do, even if he just help Rachel to go through her last life. It seems to the way he cares Rachel just for avoiding the outside world. At this time, Greg has realized that he cannot satisfy everybody’s need in a larger amount of groups and choose to conceal himself like an immature child hiding mom’s back, he is not ready for the adult life. For society, when you reached the required age, you are an adult. But for individual, the psychological line between young adult and adult is mature. Greg had not experienced any series setback in his boyhood, except for his self-conscious. By making friend with Rachel, Greg make her laugh, show his movie that he never show for anyone, and decide to make a film for Rachel, what he done for Rachel change him. Through Andrew descriptions, the reader can feel that Greg is not the person to heal Rachel’s feeling rather Rachel heals Greg’s self-conscious. He is no longer

Ensler uses letter to show how horrible a girl be brainwashed by every injustice around her. It shows with “when Brad slaps me. It doesn’t hurt as much as…he couldn’t bear everyone staring at you…” (Ensler 73). It is left to reader’s feeling that what is the meaning of “slap doesn’t hurt”, if it means that the girl think being slapped is a normal thing for her. The most terrible thing in reality is not male trying to suppress female by their attitudes and actions, but there are still a huge amount of females do not understand that they can have more choice if they want. A girl who was beaten by her boyfriend, a girl who was forced to get married and give up her career by her parents, that is not girl should deserve from the social inequality. When the girls who are tapped by the social value, a boy could not bear everyone staring a girl sounds like sexually objectifies girl. First, a girl who is in coming-of-age might listen to other’s word and lose their judgments. Finally, they do not know what self-respect is. In order to get self-liberation, girls have to break the tradition of being as a subject by men. We must admit that boys and girls are different, but the kind of this difference does not mean that a certain gender is more superior than another gender. A girl has the right like a boy to seek all she wanted when she came this world and not be told what kind of life should be by someone