All The Bright Places Analysis

A quest involves five rules; a quester, a place, a stated reason, a challenge, and a real reason to go, as stated in How to Read Literature Like a Professor for Kids. In All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven, the questers are Finch and Violet Markey, and the place they are assigned to visit are the Wonders of Indiana. Violet’s and Finch’s stated reason to go is a project for a U.S. Geography class to discover and observe the Wonders of Indiana. The student’s mission is to “go there and see each one, take pictures, shoot video, delve deep into their history, and tell him just what it is about these places that makes us proud to be a Hoosier” (Niven, 30). A challenge is presented when Finch grows tired of a peer, named Roamer, who has been

The ledge also represents a new beginning for mostly Violet, but also for Finch. As Violet confesses to her parents that Finch was the one to save her from jumping off the ledge she says, “On the first day of school after Christmas break, I climbed up on the bell tower ledge. That’s where I met Finch. He was up there too, but he was the one who talked me down, because once I realized where I was, I was scared and I couldn’t move” (Niven 308). After the school bell incident, Violet and Finch began to get closer and start to heal themselves with eachother’s company. The ledge of the high school bell tower represents both grief and a new beginning. Robert C. Frost writes in his novel, How to Read Literature for Kids, that “Political is writing that thinks about human problems, about how human beings in groups get along, about the rights individuals possess (or should), and about the wrongs committed by those in power”(Frost 68). Jennifer Niven conveys the social problem of suicide in her novel All the Bright Places. Niven mainly targets the causes of suicide which consist of labels, mental illnesses, judgement, and a lack of care and sympathy people show towards suicide. Niven writes in her novel, “People