Nick Hornby: a Long Way Down

His first apply feverishness Pitch was released in 1992. Its an autobiographical study more or less his rabid support for Arsenal Football Club. High Fidelity his second book and first saucy was published in 1995. The novel was adapted into a film in 2000 and a Broadway medical specialtyal in 2006. For his second novel About a Boy (1998) Hornby reliable the E. M. Forster Award of the American honorary society of Arts and Letters. Hugh Grant and Nicholas Hoult starred in the 2002 film version. A commodious Way Down was published in 2005 in the UK. The book received mixed reviews from critics.Johnny Depp bought the rights to the book before it was point published and has since chartered writer D. V. DeVincentis, who previously wrote the script for the film High Fidelity, to write the screen tour. The story takes place in London sometime these years. Martin Sharp Martin Sharp is a causality celebrity. We dont know his exact age but he is in his 40-s. Martins life-time wa s perfect he had a wife and two inadequate daughters, a well-paid job and was successful. He was host of a famous betoken but Martin made the mistake of sleeping with a 15 geezerhood old girl, for which he spent three months in prison.This made him even more popular as his case was stripped in the colour press. When he is released from prison he discovers that his marriage is ruined. From that point he kit and boodle for a cable TV channel with low popularity and has an affair with Penny, his former colleague. He does not make an effort to see his daughters or to finish off the tense situation with his wife. Hes very unhappy about his situation and feels that he has pissed his life away and thats why he wants to end his life. Maureen Maureen is a 51-year-old single mother of a disabled son named Matty.Her al unitedly life is turning around Matty. She believes that it is her cross she must bear for her mistake (Matty was natural out of wedlock). She has led a completely clo sed-in life for two decades reproduction him. Before she got Matty she was employed and outgoing. This has changed because she has to c be for Matty the whole day. She has no relaxdom and free time except the services at church she attends every Sunday. She wants to specify rid of her problems, which seems impossible to her. That is why she wants to frame suicide. Jess Crichton Jess is an eighteen-year-old girl. She does not have palpable friends.Jess is a person who pisses people off very quickly with her use up and rude subject because she says everything that comes to her mind. Jesss father is a local politician and the family is ideal by her mother. Her sister Jen, who is authenticly important to her, left the family a a couple of(prenominal) years ago and is thought to have committed suicide. The whole family, oddly the mother and Jess, ar still very upset about it. She wants to commit suicide by jumping from the tower block because of her family problems and losin g her ex-boyfriend though its too slightly impulsive.JJ JJ is an American who came to London with his girlfriend Lizzy. He used to play in a raft called Big Yellow and toured across the whole UK. For Lizzy he gave up his dream of becoming a rock star, the band broke up and Lizzy dumped him. Now he earns money by delivering pizza, a fact that he is really unhappy with. He comparings his own inspiration for suicide with the ambitions of well-known musicians These four strangers happen to meet on the detonator of a high building called Toppers House in London on New Years Eve, each with the intent of committing suicide. Their plans for death in solitude, however, are ruined when they meet.After telling their individual stories to the others, they find out to hold off on jumping and to protect themselves. Thus a group of four infelicitous and very individual people forms. Jess condition not to jump is that they do her to find her ex-boyfriend Chas. So they take a taxi and drive to the ships company they suppose Chas to be at. After finding and talking to Chas they decide to go to Martins place where they find Penny, who has obviously been crying. After this event the press begins to shack them. The freshspapers claim that Martin has slept with Jess and that they concluded a suicidal-pact.Jess suggests that they can try to profit from the suicidal-report in the newspaper. Jess tells a reporter that they saw an angel that looked like Matt Damon, who salvage them from jumping. Because of this silly lie their lives get worse. They go on vacation together and then plan next meeting for Saint Valentines Day. They meet at 8 oclock on the roof of Toppers House on Saint Valentines Day. spell they have a conversation, they detect a young man who is mean to jump from the roof. They try to stop him from committing suicide but he jumps. They are really taken aback.They decide to go home and to meet the interest afternoon. Martin tells them about a newspaper arti cle he read tally to which people who want to commit suicide need 90 days to overcome their ambition. So they decide to wait with their decision until the 31st of March. A lot of event happens during these three months. Things improve a bit. Maureen, JJ and Martin have new jobs now. Martin teaches pupils and wants to start a new life, JJ is a busker and is happy to make music again and Maureen works in a newspaper-store. Jesss relationships with her family come to normal.The 90 days have passed and they meet in front of the Toppers House again. They decide to go on the roof. On top, while watching the London nerve center they realize that their lives are not so bad. They decide to wait with killing themselves for another six months. The book is divided into 3 big parts. And every big part consists of many small ones, each is written in the first-person narration from the points of view of each character. The language differs significantly from one character to another. Jess and JJ use a lot of slang, rude words. Its interesting to compare British and American languages, thus JJ is an American.Though this is a book about four suicidal people, it is written in rather humorous and humourous way. There are a number of laugh-out-loud passages, but also moments of real heartbreak (scenes with Maureen and her son, the suicide of a young man) Ideas Jess, Martin, and Maureen can be seen to fight Freuds concepts of the Id, Ego, and Superego. The persons change and development, overcoming difficulties and love for life are the main ideas of the book. Though the changes in the characters appear slight, Hornby shows that such changes are a great deal the ones that lead to real progress in the right direction