Dear Evan Hansen by Emmich, Levenson, Pasek and Paul
Good morning Books Lovers,
finally, after too long, I managed to remove Dear Evan Hansen from the books I had in reading and I can finally talk to you about it.
Dear Evan Hansen has everything a book needs to be considered a good book. One might think that four heads to create a single story are too many and instead Val Emmich, Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul did a great job together.
I am sincere with you, it took me a long time to read it because in this period so many interesting books came out and I put it aside for a while because I had arrived at what was probably the only part of the book that has me bored we say, taking away the desire to continue, but I am very happy to have picked it up and completed this refreshing reading.
Our protagonists are precisely Evan Hansen and Connor Murphy, two completely different people, and in my opinion it is these differences that make them similar, I don’t know if you understand. They have two completely different personalities, but at the same time they are both marginalized, without friends and it is precisely this factor that will make everyone believe that before Connor disappeared they were linked, also because Connor’s signature was the only one that Evan had on the plaster of the broken arm.
In short, the themes of this book are well understandable, being invisibility, friendship, suicide, and the way in which these themes are expressed is very strong. In the end I almost regretted not having read it in one breath the first time I picked it up. More could not be expected from this book. Often while reading I have tried to imagine it as a musical, but probably seeing it live would be totally different from how I see it in my imagination.
The reading is aimed at teenagers, but in my opinion it would not hurt at all to make adults read and enter into the psychology of teenagers. Even if everyone has been a teenager they sometimes tend to forget the sensations they feel at that age and therefore it would be a nice way to bring to mind that it is not an easy age for the boys who always feel under analysis, always at the center of everything, even when it isn’t for real.
