The Theory of Everything is a biographical romantic drama film that was adapted from the 2007 memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Hawking. It was directed by James Marsh, and was adapted by Anthony McCarten. This memoir was about her relationship with her ex-husband Stephen Hawking, and his diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. It was additionally about his success in the field of physics. This film received five Academy Award nominations: Best Picture, Best Actress (Jones), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score (Jóhannsson), and won Best Actor for Redmayne. The film went on to win ten British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) nominations and won Outstanding British Film, Best Leading Actor for Redmayne, and Best Adapted Screenplay for McCarten. It also received four Golden Globe award nominations and it won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for Redmayne, and Best Original Score for Jóhannsson. It also received three Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations, and won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for Redmayne”
This book is about Cahalan's hardship with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis and the process by which she was diagnosed with this form of encephalitis. She wakes up in a hospital with no recollection of the previous month’s events. During those times she had violent episodes and delusions. It follows the struggle of her getting misdiagnosed, which she was by various physicians. They were misdiagnosing her with several theories like "partying too much" and schizoaffective disorder. After several physicians, including Dr. Souhel Najjar, began to suspect that Cahalan was suffering from an autoimmune disease. Dr. Najjar tested her by having her draw a clock, and this test is typically given to people suspected of having dementia or Alzheimer's disease. Rather than her drawing the clock normally she drew all the numbers from 1 to 12 on the right side of the clock. That was because the right side of her brain, which regulates the left side of her body, was inflamed. This diagnosis helped Cahalan to the road of recovery.
“Freedom Writers'' is based on the book The Freedom Writers Diary by teacher Erin Gruwell and students. It was a book compiled out of real diary entries about their lives that they wrote in their English class. They attended Woodrow Wilson Classical High School in Long Beach, California. This film was dedicated to the memory of Armand Jones, who was killed after filming Freedom Writers. He was fatally shot at the age of 18 in Anaheim, California. That happened after the confrontation with a man who robbed Jones of a necklace. “Freedom Writers'' is a film from 2007 and it was directed by Richard LaGravenese and it stars Hilary Swank, Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton, Patrick Dempsey, and Mario.
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Chaos Walking is based on the first book in a trilogy by Patrick Ness Chaos Walking. Chaos Walking is a science fiction series that takes a western set on a colonized planet. This is not any ordinary colonized planet, men’s thoughts can be heard by others. They consider that “noise” and it is declared that the Noise germ is what caused this. Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men, the Noise germ is what killed all the women. He knows the town is hiding something from him and is forced to flee from the town with his dog. While doing so he discovered a girl, he had so many questions because he thought all females were killed off by the Noise. Starring Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley, it was directed by Doug Liman.
Notebook is written by Nicholas Sparks, and it takes place during the 1940s in New Bern, North Carolina. The Notebook was inspired by Sparks’ wife's grandparents; they were “two wonderful people who spent over 60 years together.” It starts with a man with a notebook on his lap, he is reading to a woman. The Notebook begins with the story of a thirty-one-year-old Noah, who is a rural Southerner who had returned from World War II. He is trying to restore a plantation home to its former glory and he is reminded of a beautiful girl that he met fourteen years earlier. He loved her, unlike any other woman, and he can’t forget the summer they spent together. He was content with his memories of her and that summer because he couldn’t find her. Until she unexpectedly returns to the town to see him once again. That woman, who is madly in love with is Allie Nelson, a twenty-nine-year-old who is engaged to another man. She realizes that the love and passion she felt for Noah has not gone away with the time that has passed. She is forced to face her feelings because her wedding is only weeks away. The story of “the story of Noah and Allie is just beginning.” The Notebook did not win awards but the film won multiple teen choice awards and won MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss in 2005. The actress who portrayed Allie Calhoun was nominated for the MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance.
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before is written by Jenny Han. It is about a Sixteen-year-old named Lara Jean Song. She writes love letters to all her crushes that she has strong feelings for. She keeps these love letters in a hatbox her late mother gave her. These love letters were for herself and herself only, meaning they were never meant to see the light of day. That is because when she writes these love letters and pours her heart and soul out, she says everything that she couldn’t say. One day these letters are suddenly sent out and her love life goes from nonexistent to out of control.
“Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance.” This novel was published in December 1815 and it explores the difficulties of the women living in Georgian-Regency England. “Before she began the novel, Austen wrote,‘I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like.’”This novel is about Emma Woodhouse who is“handsome, clever, and rich”, but she is actually“spoiled, headstrong, and self-satisfied; she greatly overestimates her matchmaking abilities; she is blind to the dangers of meddling in other people's lives and her imagination and perceptions often lead her astray.”
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Five feet apart is written by Rachael Lippincott, Mikki Daughtry, and Tobias Iaconis. It is about a seventeen-year-old named Stella. She has spent most of her time in the hospital due to a genetic disease known as cystic fibrosis. Due to her being a cystic fibrosis patient her life is full of routines, boundaries and self-control until she encounters Will. Will is a “charming teen” who has the same illness as Stella. There is instant chemistry between them. The connection gets stronger over time and so does the temptation to “throw the rules out the window and embrace that attraction.” Since they both have the same genetic disease, they can not come in contact with one another. It received awards like Goodreads Choice Winner, Best Young Adult Fiction of 2019, and A YALSA 2020 Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers. The movie received an award for People's Choice Award for the Drama Movie Star of the Year.
The Sun is Also a Star is by Nicola Yoon, about Natasha and Daniel, two high school seniors. Natasha is a Jamaican American while Daniel is a Korean American. This takes place on the crowded streets of New York City. Natasha's family is in the midst of being deported back to Jamaica, and she starts to fall in love. Daniel, on the other hand, has been a great student and a good son as he lives up to their expectations. However, when he sees Natasha, he believes fate has something in store for them. Sun is Also a Star was inspired by Nicola Yoon’s own life. This novel has received these awards #1 New York Times Bestseller, was also a National Book Award Finalist, a 2017 Michael L. Printz Honor Book, and a New York Times Notable Book of 2016.
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The Outsiders is written by S. E. Hinton. The novel is about a fourteen-year-old boy named ponyboy Curtis. It is about his struggle to see himself in society because he struggles with right and wrong. With that struggle, he sees himself as an outsider. Ponyboy lives with his two older brothers, Darrel (Darry), who is 20, and Sodapop, who is 16. They have recently lost their parents in an automobile accident. They are allowed to stay as a family (together) under Darry’s guardianship if they behave themselves. The boys identify as greasers, a class term that refers to the young men on the East Side, aka the poor side of town. The greasers' rivals are the Socs, short for Socials, who are the "West-side rich kids."One day Ponyboy is walking home from a movie, and he is jumped by the Socs. They badly injure Ponyboy, but stop when his gang shows up. This sets the tone for the rest of the book as well as the movie.
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