Me And Earl And The Dying Girl Analysis

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The Novel Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews deals with a lot of things from cancer to high school cliques to filmmaking but the topic that I am going to talk about is overcoming insecurity. Other media texts that deal with this topic are the movie The Way Way Back and the song Secrets by Mary Lambert.

A film that also deals with the theme of overcoming insecurity is The Way Way Back. The Way Way Back is about Duncan, an insecure and shy 14 year old boy, who’s forced to go on vacation to a beach house with his mother Pam, his mother’s condescending boyfriend Trent, and his mother’s boyfriend’s daughter Steph. In attempt to avoid spending time with his family and his annoying neighbours, Duncan wanders off to the nearby water park, the water wizz, where he meets Owen, the wisecracking slacker who manages the water park. Owen and Duncan become fast friends …show more content…
This song is about all of the things the singer is insecure about and how she’s no longer afraid to tell people about these things. The lyrics to the chorus are “ They tell us from the time we're young, To hide the things that we don't like about ourselves, Inside ourselves, I know I'm not the only one who spent so long attempting to be someone else, Well I'm over it,” this talks about how she’s hidden things about herself from other people and pretended to be someone else but she’s not going to do this anymore, she’s just going to be herself. I can connect this to Greg in Me and Earl and the Dying Girl since in the beginning of the novel he was so insecure about his filmmaking skills that he would not let anyone watch the films that he made with Earl and didn’t tell anyone that he was a filmmaker. But after he made what he describes as “the worst film ever made” and decided to retire from filmmaking, because of Rachel’s support he was able to overcome the insecurity he had about his filmmaking abilities and apply to film
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