She realizes that she doesn’t enjoy spending time with her former friend Amanda and Amanda’s boyfriend Roamer. As they continue to visit sites across Indiana, their chemistry grows-and Finch encourages Violet to start writing again so she can document their project.Īs their relationship progresses, Violet starts to heal and improve. Though she gives Finch directions to get there by bike, Finch insists they take Finch’s mom’s car, a Saturn that he calls Little Bastard.

Next, Violet insists they go visit the Bookmobile Park. Finch insists that it’s beautiful, but Violet is underwhelmed. After school one day, Finch and Violet bike to Hoosier Hill (the highest point in Indiana) for their school project. Though Finch is familiar with Virginia Woolf’s suicide note, he hasn’t read the rest of her work. They come up with their “Rules for Wandering” and begin to exchange Virginia Woolf quotes. Wanting to appear normal to Violet, Finch creates a Facebook account so he and Violet can communicate with each other. She hasn’t been in a car since Eleanor died and insists on biking everywhere. Since her death, Violet hasn’t been able to write-something she once enjoyed-and now she wears Eleanor’s glasses to try to connect with her sister. She knows that her death would devastate her parents-especially since Violet’s older sister Eleanor died in a car crash last spring. Violet feels awful for almost killing herself. Black, announces a project to “wander Indiana.” Finch tells the class that he’s going to work with Violet. Knowing that there are onlookers below, Finch makes it seem like Violet came up to save him, not to contemplate killing herself. He talks Violet off the ledge, and she convinces him not to jump either.

However, he realizes he’s not alone: a popular girl, Violet Markey, is on the other side of the tower.

Finch has spent the past few months “asleep” (his term for a depressive episode), but now that he’s “awake,” he’s fixated on death. Violet: Remaining wanderings 3 and 4Īs Finch stands at the top of his high school’s belltower, prepared to jump, he wonders if today is a good day to die. Finch: The night of the day my life changed

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