It's Kind Of a Funny Story
By:Ned Vizzini
(p. 382-444)
As the end part of the book approaches, Craig has the biggest shift. He is discharged from Six North and into the real world. He has decided to switch from Executive Pre Professional because he decided that ever since he had started there, he had been faced with so much stress that he was depressed. He is now going to go to an arts school so that he can thrive to become a professional artist and show the whole world his Brain Maps. His parents and his sister, Sarah, come to take him out of the mental ward and he says goodbye to everyone, makes them their own personal Brain Map, and even gets some of their numbers. Most of them are going off to an adult housing center when they get out and Craig believes that he will eventually run into them out in Manhattan. His roommate, Muqtata finally leaves the room and that is when Craig decides that some day he wants to come back and visit everyone, even try and help them like the guitarist. There is a quote that is the last sentence in the book that states; "So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live. Live". The quote really sums up that to live for real, you have to have a real shift in your life, Craig had been though so many fake shifts in his life until when he left Six North, he experienced the real shift. This book was overall a wonderful book and can teach a lot about the way you can express yourself in diversity and truly live your live, no matter what you have been though.
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