Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
After reading Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews in my cozy pajamas laying in my comfy blue bed the whole morning, I have discovered the adventures that I took while reading this wondrous specimen. Once I began to read the first page, I realized that this isn't a sappy book about a boy who is forced to befriend a girl with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia who then falls in love and just when they do, there's a tragic ending. I mean, in a way it's exactly like that but without the part of falling in love. But to try to understand what I'm blabbering on about I must give some sort of detail that might help fill in any sort of gaps. The book begins of a jewish guy going by the name Greg Gaines going on about how High School sucks and his failed attempts on trying to go out with girls in which he actually likes. How he has no friends except for a short, angry guy named Earl in which they join forces and make substandard movies then burned onto two disks and show no one but themselves. But one day, after coming home from the perfect first day of school, Greg is told the unpleasant news of a girl named Rachel Kushner who herself discovered the shocking news of having cancer, which will change the lives of everyone around her later in the book. Greg is forced to hang out with Rachael, and since Earl is Greg's friend, he decides to join the little pity party. But once the weeks go by, the connection between all of them grows stronger, and so does the cancer. Greg begins to hang out with Rachael during school, show her his not up to par movies and try to make her laugh as the cancer gets worse. But one day, one of Rachael's friends had commissioned a movie that might lift her spirits. The movie was filmed, edited and burned onto a disk with the help of Earl, but they didn't realize what was going to happen next. The movie was mediocre and it sure didn't put a smile on her face. With the downs of having not succeeding on making her smile, they failed to realize that Rachael's mom had found the disk and given it to Greg's mother, then giving it to the principle in which he showed to the entire school, making Greg and Earl a laughing stock. And so Greg and Earl had decided that they made the worst film ever and ended their hobby of making crappy films and saying goodbye to their close friendship.
I feel like this book connects to the relationships of friends and what they go through. It may not necessarily mean someone dies of cancer but it does mean that through every friendship there is a struggle and it may not end the way you expect it to be. Well, anyway, I feel that it also connects to The Fault in Our Stars which displays a similar book where two people enjoy hanging out with each other but then someone dies and everyone's sad and then people keep on living their life's. So basically, cancer and the relationship between two people (as well as the guy's best friend) are tying the two stories together with a nice big red bow. Something I wouldn't read if I wasn't recommended it to me, but the only reason I took it was because the owner of the book had lured me into what people are claiming to say that the book is similar to The Fault in Our Stars, which, like I stated above, is some what true. So I would totally recommend this book to fans of The Fault in Our Stars, as well as to people who like books that are written without all the fancy words and the fancy grammar. A book where the author writes like they're having a one-and-one conversation with the reader
very nice faye
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