-This book narrates the experience of a boy who is suicidal and tries to Commit suicide. The Opening page gives us details about his day leading up to when he lit himself on fire through his inner dialogue

Inner Dialogue:

-tells a story of the narrator's experience in life through the use of inner dialogue. 

-”Im awake, listening to the radio, and mom is yelling at me to get out of bed. I don't want to get out of bed. I don't want to go to school. Maybe I should play sick but I've done that too many times this year already.”

Details-

-” I reach out and grab my big black bathrobe, like the ones boxers wear but without a hood, put it on, and step out into the cold air.”

Imagery-

-”It's like a black cloud hanging over my head, like in cartoons when it's only raining on the one guy and it follows him around wherever he goes, even indoors.”

Inner thoughts-

-”I run the whole thing back in my head. I did so many things wrong, i can't even believe it. I shouldn't have taken the matches from Adam. I should have lit that match. I shouldn't have set the whole pack on fire. I shouldn't have thrown them into the locker. And I really shouldn't have put that lock on the locker.”

Foreshadowing-

-”Its weird that this bathroom has three locking doors, but I like it. If i ever have to hide from anyone, like a burglar or something, or just really want to be by myself, i can in here and lock all the doors.”

This literary technique happens throughout his whole stay at the hospital. Consistently when something good happens to the main character, in the next paragraph something bad happens to him. For instance in the picture above he gets a gift phone call from someone famous that he likes and then the next paragraph goes to him getting a painful medical procedure. This technique is used to give the reader a sense of how awful what he is going through is. It also just sounds real which could make the reader have a larger reaction to what they're reading.

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