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Val Emmich is the author of the book ‘Dear Evan Hansen’.
He is a 42 year old man from New Jersey, USA.
He is really successful in the music- and actor industry.

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That’s him

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Evan is a guy, who is now in his last year of highschool.
Actually Evan is his second first name, his first one is Mark.
But he never wants to be called like that.

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He is pretty much unstable, and mentally not that strong like others.
He has some social anxiety and isn’t able to talk random to other persons and he doesn’t trust other people fast.
That’s why he is in therapy, so he can open more up.

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That’s Ben Platt.
He’s playing Evan in the musical.

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In the first chapter of the book, is Evan in his own room.
In the beginning he start’s talking about his name.
That his first name is Mark but nobody calls him like that, but only teachers on the first day of school till he tells them to call him Evan.

Then he talks with his mom about therapy and the letters.
Because the therapist told him to write letters to himself, but he doesn’t really know how.
And they argued a bit, because Evan didn’t used the money to get some food and rather ate nothing, so she got concerned.

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Evan want’s to get close to some student and make some friends.
So he tried to sit next to someone in the cafeteria.
He asked Jared, but Jared said no, and after that he started to have a small fight with Connor
the ‘most dangerous guy’ of the school.
When Evan started laughing at the comment Jared said about Connor, Connor pushed him at the floor, where later Connor’s sister Zoe asked him if he was ok.
He was pretty much shocked that she knew his name, because that means for him that he isn’t that invisible for others.
He wanted to talk to her, like about Jazz but at the end he wasn’t able because he was too shy and had to many anxiety.

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In the beginning he is in the school bus where he tries to talk to some other students.
But at the end he talked to nobody because some were talking to their friends or looking at their phone.
Later in school Alana Beck came to him when he was standing at his locker.
She asked him how his summer was and what he was doing. She told him how she spent her time and that she made great new friends.
Evan told her, about how he broke his arm.
The same he told Jared later who he calls friends, even tho they are only family friends and not ‘real’ friends.
After they talked he went to class.

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Later Connor talked to him and even signed his cast.
Connor said to him that both can pretend like they have friends now, and Evan thinks that he made a impression on someone.
After they talked about it, Connor showed him the letter he found.
He started reading it and realized that it’s about his sister Zoe. He get’s mad and shows Evan the middle finger.

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He isn’t really that shy, like he is able to talk to other people, he is just afraid that someone will backtalk him or tells him to go away.
He isn’t able to say who is his friend and who not, like Jayden who doesn’t wants to spend time with him but still Evan things that they are friends.

Every morning he wakes up and does actually  regular thing, but he doesn’t really meet up with friends, because he has none. He writes every morning and evening a letter to himself.

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He isn’t really a open person and he has some social anxiety.
He lives in his own world.
Awkward in society.

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What does Evan think of himself? And how is his relationship to his mom?

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What does Evan think of himself? And how is his relationship to his mom?

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He doesn’t really likes himself and thinks that he isn’t even worth so much, that someone can say ‘fuck you’ to him or need to spend time to yell at him.

He has a good relationship to his mom is really good and she is like the only person he talks too everyday and tell everything.
But sometimes she doesn’t really understand him.
She tells him that she is always with him but actually she doesn’t really has time for him.

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That’s the one who play’s Connor in the musical

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That’s the one who play’s Connor in the musical

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His name is Colton Ryan

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Michael Billington thinks that the musical is good but that there are some plot holes.(l.2)
Some things should have been get intensiver explained, but still it shows perfectly the agonies and sad side of youth.(l.3)
He likes it that the whole internet can be fake and everyone believes what they read even tho they have no clue about it or that there is a confirmation.(l.14-15)
The music of the show is so good, that nobody thinks about the plot holes that happended.(l.19-20)
And it shows that you can cure social anxiety but not so fast, like it needs time.(l.33-34)

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Elements that got used to criticise the show

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Elements that got used to criticise the show

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He didn’t used some bad words to describe the show he wrote more positive words like “great role”,“good enough” etc.
But he wrote freely and said discreet about what he liked and what not and how he thinks about it.

He started with something positive about the actor who played Evan.
Then he said something negative like about the plot holes and so on.
He used to make it a kind of pro-con-pro-con… .
But still he tried to show that the musical was good.

The last paragraph is like supposed to explain some roles more and to show that the target he had can be reached but that it takes time.

The text it really useful for the reader, because it explains the story line further more and

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Evan gets called to come to the principals offices, where Conners parents are waiting for him. The told him that Conner killed himself and that they found a letter where he was mentioned.
They thought that the letter ist from Conner to Evan, but actually it’s the letter Evan wrote for his therapist and Conner found, but they didn’t understood him.
They always thought that Conner had no friends( and he didn’t really had some) till they found the letter and now they think Evan was Conners friend.

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He is worried about the letter that Conner found, and about the things that might happen.
The next day Conner and his sister Zoe Murphy aren’t at school, and the day after that too.
But still is Evan scared, that Conner could might be exposing him.
When he talks to Jared he isn’t really a big help.

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Caring, but also workaholic, relationship to Evan is quite distanced

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Evan does not has many friends and is too shy to talk to other people

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Passive role in the novel, Evan’s therapist, wants Evan to engage with his peers.

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Evan’s “rich” friend

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Commits suicide, rude to Evan, signs his cast, “Dear Evan Hansen” letter

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His really talkative and ambitious classmate

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Evan’s crush

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Evan meet’s Conners parents at school

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Evan went back home after Connor’s funeral.
On his way he texted with Jared who told him to go to the dinner with Connor’s family, but he shouldn’t say that he was never Connors friend and that he should just nod when they talk bout him.

When he arrived at home, his mother came to his room, because she wanted to know if he knew Connor. He lied and said no, but she saw his cast but he said that it was a totally different Connor who is new at school.

They mattered that they will go together at the next day to Bell House.

When they were sitting in the restaurant she started talking about a short-story contest he once won in 3th place.
And now is there a new one where she wants him to participate in.

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Evan went to the Murphy’s house, because the invited him over for dinner.
For dinner they ate some chicken and rice.
They started talking about Evan’s and Connor’s relationship..
Zoe was really suspicious about the things Evan said.
He said thing like that Connor was to embarrassed to talk to him in public and school, so that they only talked private and that Connor had a secret Email account, where they texted each other

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Evan texted Jared about the evening and Jared means that Connor’s family might now think that they two were gay lovers and that they probably want to see the e-mails they wrote each other.

Evan mom comes home and asked him if he ate and Evan wanted to make something up.
She told him that she wants to make a takko night with him and talk about the essays.

The next day at school he watches Zoe at the school cafeteria and she just stand up, throws her food away and goes out.
Jared told him that he can fake the e-mails for him but he needs to give him money.
20$

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Jared and Evan are at the gym where they are faking Connor’s e-mails.
Jared thinks that it sounds like that Evan and Connor where secret gay lovers and that’s why he had a secret e-mail account.

They started faking them and after that Evan went to print them.

Later you can see the view of the dead-Connor who was remembering the time at the apple orchard and when he used to spend time with his family and later he went to Zoe’s bedroom where he saw her singing.

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Some students went to Evan in the school cafeteria to tell him that they are proud that he can deal with this situation so well.
And that Jared told everyone that Connor and Evan were best friends.

And he found out that many students are making money if Connor’s suicide.
He doesn’t like it.

He gives him in some points the fault that Connor killed himself.
Connor’s mum want’s more from hime like e-mails and names to probably go to the police station with it.
His mum can’t make the taco night with him cause she has work and he is sad about it.