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Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Will Grayson, Will Grayson (2010) is a novel written by two young-adult fiction authors John Green and David Levithan. John Green is the author of well-known novel The Fault In Our Stars. David Levithan’s production includes works like Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist and Every You, Every Me.

The novel tells a story about two teens, both of them named Will Grayson. Other one tries to live his life without being noticed and the other has an online relationship with a guy he has never met. Boys have different lives which are suddenly going new directions. And then there is Tiny Cooper, huge and determined high school student and playwright. He is best friend of Will1 and later Will2’s boyfriend. So Tiny is gay and he definitely doesn’t hide it or his largeness.

In the book every second chapter is about Will Grayson1 and every other is about Will Grayson2 and those chapter have written with small letters. Green wrote capitalized Will Grayson’s story (Will1) and Levithan wrote about lower case will grayson (Will2). Novel’s narrator is first-person, Will1 or Will2, so narrator and point of view change always when new chapter begins. The plot of novel itself is pretty simple so characters’ growth and development comes out well.

Will Grayson, Will Grayson is a story about friendship and life. It’s about menthal growth and exceeding yourself. But I have to say that two stories which have main characters with the same name is a little bit challenging equation, but you get used to it quite quickly. In spite of all I liked the novel. Characters were all different and that’s why they complete each other so well. Especially I liked Will Grayson2 who exceeds himself in the end of the story only because of Tiny Cooper and his greatness. The novel ends to the Tiny’s play which is totally worth reading. All in all novel was good and I can recommend it to everyone and I’m sure that I’ll read more John Green’s and mayde David Levithan’s novels.

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Remember me

Remember me (2010) is a drama film directed by Allen Coulter. It tells about two young persons, Tyler Hawkins (Robert Pattinson) and Ally Craig (Emilie de Ravin) and their rough past and present.

The movie starts when young Ally is on the subway station and suddenly she is forced to witness her mother being murdered. Ten years later there is Tyler who is a ragged and rebellious 21-year-old man who has a complicated relationship with his father. One night he and his friend get in trouble and the police arrests him. Lately when Tyler has got out of jail he meets Ally, the daughter of the police who had arrested him earlier. Tyler’s friend wants to avenge to the police and persuades Tyler to meet Ally and then dump her. Tyler agrees but after spending time together they get to know each other and begin to fall in love.

I think that Robert Pattinson fit in the role very well and the character was believable. Tyler was gloomy and maybe little ironic but also very protective and loving big brother. But in my opinion especially Ruby Jerins’ role as Tyler’s sister Caroline was really good and surprised me in a positive way. Caroline was a young artist who is bullied at school. She was authentic and sincere and the role totally impressed me.

The end of the movie was really surprising and schoking. It turned everything upside down and gave the whole new point of view to the film and the name of it. It got to realize that everyone of us matter and we leave behind to our loved ones.

I’m not sure wheter I liked the movie or not. It is described as a romantic movie but I find it wasn’t so romantic that I thought it would have been. That side of the movie was kinda cliche. Boy meets a girl who acts elusive and first they don’t like each other but then fall in love and so on. But as a drama movie it was good and all in all worth watching.

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