Phone Calls

Outside Reading Blog #3

It's Kind of a Funny Story

By: Ned Vizzini

(p.155-227)

Now Craig gets into Six North, the mental ward. This is a psychatric ward for both adolescents and adults because the other ward is having construction. The first thing Craig does at the phone is call his voicemail since he doesn't have his cell phone, he has messages from his science teacher, one from Nia and one from Aaron. He decides to only call Nia back, but Aaron is with her anyways. After Craig tells Nia where he is, she tells Aaron and he makes fun of him, which makes Craig extremely mad and he hangs up the phone. As he does, the whole ward is looking at him. Though this was bad for Craig, it triggered many conversations with other people. Ebony, an older woman, introduces herself to Craig and tells her that she's in because she's a teacher who is deemed with the most stress ever. In Six North, Craig makes a lot of friends. A girl who has scarred her face with a pair of scissors, Noelle. Self-elected President Armelio. Bobby and Jimmy who were huge druggies back in the day. And Muqtata, his roommate who still has not introduced himself or gotten out of bed for the 2 days Craig has been there. I think the phone calls that Craig make are really important to being in Six North because he then realizes that no matter what he is still going to face the outside world at some point. As Craig begins to dig himself into the world of Six North, the book gets better and better and harder to put down.