The topic of the gay friend with whom to talk about the sentimental vicissitudes of the girls acquires a new concept in this novel. It is not about trivializing even more about the stereotype of the connection between girls and gay boys, it is more about presenting an integration scenario about a value as necessary as friendship, well understood.
There are friends and friends. But a good friend is one who can sacrifice something of himself to get to share the most real space of friendship, the friendship with which to go through less pleasant moments than those of simple leisure.
Maybe the idea of a homosexual person per seDue to its habitual adverse conditions that it must always overcome, it induces us to think of her as someone receptive to listening to emotions and capable of proposing solutions or acting as a therapist.
The point is that in this book Only you know me, David Levithan presents us with one of those typical scenarios in which the gay friend is presented as the outstretched hand and the shoulder on which to cry emotional deficiencies. But beyond rounding the circle even more on the hackneyed topic of this type of friendship, the author places us on the scene of the connection between two people who, although they do not love each other, under the standard concept of love, end up needing each other and coming together as they close that special connection.
Getting to know someone absolutely is practically impossible. Every moment, every circumstance can bring out unprecedented aspects of ourselves. But the harmony between two people can cause an extraordinary degree of knowledge, as if it were the greatest love.
Mark has just been dumped by his partner and Katie doesn't know how to deal with her emotions about Violet. Two emotional castaways achieve that harmony from which they approach each other in their innermost part. Mark and Katie speak from their hearts and what emerges from their time together will come very close to a new concept of love, in which absence becomes unbearable as if it were the love of your life.
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