Reviews by Tag: realistic

The Breakfast Club is a film about a group of students who all get called into detention. Each one of these students comes from a different background: a popular girl, jock guy, weird girl, rebel guy, and nerdy boy. During these long hours of being stuck in the same classroom together, they begin to find things they have in common, and they start to reveal things about themselves. Throughout this, they are able to all become friends, and understand the point of view of other stereotypes.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is about a teenage boy named Charlie. Charlie is struggling as a freshman in high school, and finds it hard to make friends. He battles difficult mental health conditions, and loneliness as well. His life begins to turn around when he meets two seniors, named Patrick and Sam. They invite Charlie into their friend group, when he begins to learn the reality of what high school is actually like. They help Charlie try to be happier, and battle his past trauma.

Franny and Zooey, written by J.D. Salinger, offers an intimate exploration of the Glass family, concentrating on the youngest siblings, Franny and Zooey. The narrative commences with Franny meeting her boyfriend for lunch, where her peculiar behavior becomes evident: she has lost her appetite, appears distracted, and diverts their conversation towards religious topics.

The Sun Does Shine is a captivating autobiography about Anthony Ray Hinton’s journey of being sentenced to 28 years on death row for a crime he didn’t commit. As years go by, Anthony tries his hardest to prove that he was wrongfully convicted, but the system doesn’t allow it. Even through the darkest times, Anthony has hope that he will see the light again. As time flies, he starts to lose hope. Will he ever live a normal life again?

Wilder Girls, the debut novel of Rory Power, is the horror story of best friends Hetty, Byatt, and Reese. They have been stuck in Raxter, the island in which their school for girls is on, for eighteen months, quarantined and away from the world because of the Tox, the deadly disease that has claimed the lives of teachers and students alike. The Tox, though, gives surprising but strange abilities to the girls that do survive it, as well as gruesome liabilities. Double heartbeats, gills, second spines.