#caden bosch

[cranberrylane]

forgive my poor articulation, it's been years since i've read challenger deep and idk if i'll ever pick it up again but i remember reading it in my early teens and it was the first book that really "traumatised" me. the idea of having your mental health deteriorate so quickly and unexpectedly is terrifying!! i distinctly remember reading about caden filling a multiple choice question paper (americans call them a scantron i think?) with that feeling that something is horribly wrong and then everything went downhill from there... the way neal shusterman described the progression of his failing mental state and descent into schizophrenia made the book feel painstakingly hard to read (for me)

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[vernalloy]

[ID: A series of bust drawings of various characters. First is Alex from Devil House. He is drawn as mixed White-Vietnamese, and has long black hair, a grey parka, acne, and a tired expression. The piece is done entirely in flat grayscale. The next two images are sketches of the original character Alaska Blanche. In the the first image, the left sketch shows her looking down, slightly irritated, and the second has her with a melancholy expression looking directly forward. Her hair covers one eye. In the second, the first sketch has her looking to the viewer and facing away, with a subtle expression that reads as slight disgust. The other two show her happy, with the first being more tentative. The last picture are two drawings of Caden Bosch from Challenger Deep, the lineart done with marker and the color digital. He is a pale teenager with a long, straight nose and light brown hair. He wears a gray t-shirt. The drawing on the left shows him with a neutral expression, and the other afraid. End ID.]

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Book Review: Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman

Challenger Deep Written by Neal Shusterman. Illustrated by Brendan Shusterman.

Genre or Category

National Book Award Winner

Target Age Group

7th-12th grade

Recommended for ages 14-17 years, grades 9-12th.

Format

Physical, print

Summary

Caden Bosch is changing. When he isn’t walking for miles under the guise of joining his school’s track team, he’s documenting a grand ship’s journey to Challenger Deep… but how is that possible? Caden Bosch is experiencing an onset of schizophrenia and he’s in for quite the journey.

Justification

This book was chosen because it fulfills the category “National Book Award Winner.” Specifically, this book received the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature in 2015. The National Book Award for Young People’s Literature is one of five National Book Awards, which are bestowed annually and seeks to recognize literature written by US citizens. In addition, it has also received the Golden Kite Award and was a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book. 

Evaluation

For this review, I will be evaluating point of view, illustrations, and accuracy.

Point of View

Challenger Deep is unique because it incorporates a dual narrative, which shows the protagonist, Caden Bosch, in both the first and second person. In the first person, Caden uses “I” and recounts his experiences in real-time, both in the real world and what has become his own reality, which has been distorted by onset schizophrenia. In the second person, typically the word “you” and other variations is used to refer to the reader. In this specific instance, “you” is used to refer to Caden. When the narrative is in second person, we see the world from outside of Caden’s own perspective and are seeing it from a spectator’s viewing. For example, we see Caden being admitted to a psychiatric facility in the second person (i.e. “To keep yourself from pacing, you focus on the fish tank.”) This transition between different points of view shows us the instability that Caden is experiencing, both internally and externally. 

Illustrations

Although Challenger Deep is a young adult novel, it does incorporate illustrations throughout the story. These illustrations are typically in black and mimic drawings done in pen or other writing instruments. They are also chaotic in nature and have erratic linework, usually with jagged or swirling lines. Sometimes the illustrations attempt to mimic things found in reality, such as snails, but it will be drastically disfigured. They are often used to illustrate what cannot be said through text and help to convey emotions that the main character is experiencing. The illustrations in this novel were created by Brendan Shusterman, the son of Neal Shusterman, who had similar experiences with schizophrenia.

Accuracy

In the “Author’s Note,” Neal Shusterman states that in order to capture “the descent” he collaborated with his son. In addition to speaking about his son and other loved ones’ experiences with mental illness, Shusterman also states in the “Acknowledgements” that he had used resources provided by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), which is a nonprofit mental health organization in the US that provides support and education for people with mental illness and their families. Although this story was informed by real-life accounts and educational resources, it does not claim to be the only story of schizophrenia, which helps in justifying its accuracy.

References

Shusterman, Neal. (2015). Challenger Deep (B. Shusterman, Illus.). Quill Tree Books.

Shusterman, Neal. (2015). Challenger Deep [Cover illustration] (B. Shusterman, Illus.). Quill Tree Books. https://www.harpercollins.com/products/challenger-deep-neal-shusterman?variant=32206548828194

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Challenger Deep wips

[nealshustermanreal]

Connor Lassiter, Citra Terranova, Scythe Goddard, Caden Bosch, and a few more of my characters finally got the chance to ask me about "the various tortures you like to impose on us.” Read the interview here.

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Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman

"Now imagine being like that all the time--never knowing for sure when you're going to be here, or there, or somewhere in between. The only thing you have for measuring what's real is your mind ... so what happens when your mind becomes a pathological liar?"

Year Read: 2021

Rating: 4/5

About: Caden Bosch is a high school student who's starting to feel untethered from reality. He walks miles every day, his grades are slipping, and his friends and family are starting to notice his odd behavior. At the same time, Caden is on a ship headed for the deepest point in the ocean: Challenger Deep. The pirate captain and his parrot are at odds, both urging Caden to kill the other, and he isn't sure he can trust either of them. Both versions of reality feel equally real. Trigger warnings: mental illness, schizophrenia, depression, anxiety/panic attacks, suicidal ideation/discussion, rape mention.

Thoughts: I've been dragging my feet on writing this review and letting others pile up because, as always with award-winning books, I don't feel there's much I can say that hasn't already been said. It's good for all the reasons people say it's good, and you should read it for all the reasons people say you should read it. It's one of the best fictional books on mental illness I've ever read, somehow both imaginative and realistic at once, and I think that's why it really works. On the one hand, we have the imagined (but very real for Caden) story of the ship, and on the other, we have the heart-breakingly real account of his time in the hospital.

I found it difficult to engage in the former at first because nonsense stories always feel like nonsense stories from the outside, and that's partly the point. How terrifying to not be able to tell or trust which is real (and what do we mean when we say that anyway?). As the novel went on though, it helped my understanding of what was going on both in the real world and in Caden's head, and it ends up being one of the best extended metaphors for a mental health journey I've ever read. Realizing what Challenger Deep really is for Caden is an intensely emotional moment in the book. I like that there are no easy solutions and the serious acknowledgement that Caden will have to continue to manage his schizophrenia throughout his life, but that things do get better.

[theswiftiebookclub]

This month our theme was books that had main characters who have a disability and we chose Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman! Discussion will be April 18th at 3pm EST.

Caden Bosch is on a ship that’s headed for the deepest point on Earth: Challenger Deep, the southern part of the Marianas Trench. Caden Bosch is a brilliant high school student whose friends are starting to notice his odd behaviour. Caden Bosch is designated the ship’s artist in residence to document the journey with images. Caden Bosch pretends to join the school track team but spends his days walking for miles, absorbed by the thoughts in his head. Caden Bosch is torn. (x)

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2, 6, 18, 36, 38, 48 ✨

thank u, e hoa! <3

2: What are you currently reading?

‘A Book of Longing’ by Leonard Cohen! It’s good!

6: Which book was the last one you really, really loved?

I’m gonna cheat and talk about two here. Undoubtedly the first that comes to mind is ‘The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue’ by V.E. Schwab. I ADORED it! So much so that I bought myself a copy.

The other is ‘The Book of Eels’ by Tom Fort, which is literally 348 pages about eels, and what we know about them, and how we’ve come to know that stuff. The writing style was delightful and bizarre and deeply unsettling at times, which made for an incredible and peculiar reading experience!

(But Addie LaRue is my fav book of Feb for sure, sorry Tom!)

18: Which character from a book is the most like you?

Okay, this is a hard one! Maybe Addie from Addie LaRue? She’s the first one that comes to mind. I related to her on like every single level. Caden Bosch from Challenger Deep as well. (We’re psychotic bros!) When I was younger I super related to Valkyrie Cain from Skulduggery Pleasant. OH WAIT! WINNIE THE POOH. I vibe with Pooh Bear.

36: Name a book you consider to be terribly overrated

That’s really hard because I don’t really dislike many books? I guess you don’t have to dislike a book to think it’s overrated. Still can’t think of one though. Sorry!

And I just answered 48 here!

[garciapimienta]

2019 reading challenge: 3/100. Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman.

*This book also fits my ‘Read a book about mental health’ challenge.

Synopsis: I’ll put the goodreads synopsis down, which actually doesnt explain much but i like it and that’s all i knew before reading the book. But basically, we follow Caden’s struggle with mental illness as he starts having allucinations and delusions.

(From Goodreads)

Caden Bosch is on a ship that's headed for the deepest point on Earth: Challenger Deep, the southern part of the Marianas Trench.

Caden Bosch is a brilliant high school student whose friends are starting to notice his odd behavior.

Caden Bosch is designated the ship's artist in residence to document the journey with images.

Caden Bosch pretends to join the school track team but spends his days walking for miles, absorbed by the thoughts in his head.

Caden Bosch is split between his allegiance to the captain and the allure of mutiny.

Caden Bosch is torn.

My Rating: 5 stars. This is for sure one of my favourites books now.

I loved the story and the portrayal of Caden’s mental illness. I loved how there was no romanticizing it, at all, and that you could clearly tell A LOT of research and work had been put into it. Another thing I really loved was how much i connected with Caden’s character from the start, and i think that is mainly because you could see how Neal Shusterman spoke from personal experience (and in the author notes he talked about how a friend of him had dealt with Schizophrenia and also how his son lived with it too). And a detail i liked a lot were the drawings made by Caden (that were actually made by Neal Shusterman’s son!) that appeared throughout the story.

I’ll be honest and say that the first few chapters regarding Caden’s marine adventure were a little confusing, but I still found them really interesting. And as the story advances, the story about the ship starts to connect with ‘reality’ more and it all starts to make a lot of sense; so if you struggle with the first chapters, i would recommend sticking with it, because it really does get better. I loved the format in which he decided to tell Caden’s story and i loved the writing style.

And i’ll put two quotes i really liked here:

"Schizophrenia, schizoaffective, bipolar I, bipolar II, major depression, psychotic depression, obsessive/compulsive, and on, and on. The labels mean nothing, because no two cases are ever exactly alike. Everyone presents differently, and responds to meds differently, and no prognosis can truly be predicted."

"Dead kids are put on pedestals but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug.”

10/10 would recommend to anyone, though i will put trigger warning for schizophrenia and (talk of) suicide

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Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman

Selection: National Book Award

Justification

As I looked back at this list, I realized I didn’t have any books about mental illness. Light Filters In is a collection of poems centering on the feelings surrounding growing up and barely having a childhood but it doesn’t focus on mental illness. Challenger Deep is an important book for teens struggling with mental illness and depression, as it centers on Caden Bosch’s ‘journey’ to Challenger Deep, the lowest point on Earth. He tries to make sense of his voyage on the way but none of the crewmates make sense either, pointing out that mental illness doesn’t let the brain make sense. High school readers should find a common voice in Caden’s struggle, especially if they have their own.

Evaluation

1. The main setting of the book is the ‘ship’ Caden is on, the artist in residence. If the ship represents Caden himself, it seems that he should be the Captain but the Captain is someone he fears thinking about. Loss of control of the ship represents how Caden had lost control of his life due to his mental illness. It’s worth noting that the path the ship is taking is toward the Marianas Trench and ultimately Caden will dive down into Challenger Deep, the lowest point, in order to draw what he sees there. However, just because Challenger Deep is mysterious and unexplored doesn’t mean it’s not a dark and lonely place, sort of like how the lower someone goes into depression the colder mentally they get. As someone who has struggled with mild depression for years, finding out that it can go hand in hand with ADD was a burden lifted since my condition wasn’t my fault but that doesn’t mean my life has been a cruise ship vacation since then. I’ve had to learn how to manage my time and my habits in order to give my life structure, sort of like navigating a boat so I don’t sink in a storm.

2. As stated previously, Caden’s journey on the boat and sinking down into Challenger Deep represents someone’s path into depression. It doesn’t always happen immediately and when it goes slowly, it can be a kind of soft hell. You don’t want to live like this or let others see you like this, you want control back, but you still have no control of the ship. When you sink, you only have one life line that your subconscious thoughts know of but you can’t use it until you feel you’ve fulfilled your ‘jail’ sentence. In the case of Caden, being the ship’s artist means capturing Challenger Deep to the full extent of his skill but not only is the trench so deep and dark and wide that getting exact details is impossible, but he is his own jailor with how he decides to capture his art. Expecting himself to draw everything he sees is highly unrealistic but Caden has no control. The thing about a life line is that the people on the crank control how to lift you back up but you control when you come back up and even though Caden feels like he doesn’t have control of one, others can always help him up.

3. When Caden’s parents learn of his mental state, they commit him to Seaview Memorial Hospital. It’s here that Caden meets other mental patients as well as a doctor and therapist who want to help him out of his mental state. Caden’s roommate on the ‘ship’ is a navigator obsessed with drawing things and finding meaning in them and his real life counterpart is Caden’s hospital roommate named Hal who has the same condition. The wooden maiden on the ship is the representation of a girl at the hospital named Callie and the Captain’s parrot is a mental representation of Dr. Poirot, the doctor treating Caden. The Captain himself doesn’t have a true representation as he is the embodiment of Caden’s depression and continues to be in his mind long after he’s declared sound of mind. Unfortunately, someone who has depression can never fully be cured of it but how they manage it with help and time can allow them a semblance of control. When Caden reaches the bottom of the trench and finds candy treasure, he remembers the root cause of his problem: he encountered a homeless man in New York City who had a Cap’n Crunch box on his head and said that ‘no one knows how deep the subways go’. Shusterman’s use of nautical themes comes full circle with Caden’s realization, telling us that Caden had subconsciously built this mental world to cope with this descent even as descending deeper into Deep isolated him from everyone. Sometimes the best mental help is our subconscious but getting there can take a crew.

Conclusion

Challenger Deep is an insightful and deep look at mental health and illness in teens and the struggles of addressing it. Caden’s family is stable and none of the members are the root cause of his problem but that doesn’t mean his problem isn’t family related. Sometimes, mental illness can be genetic as well as environmental and teens whose lives resemble Caden’s will find this to be true. I would want to have this on my shelf as a librarian for students and teens who seek a kindred spirit like them. Teens might find it hard to communicate how they’re feeling, especially since adults around them don’t understand what teens have to be depressed about, but I think Challenger Deep would help them navigate those uncharted waters.

Citation

Shusterman, N., & Shusterman, B. (2015). Challenger Deep. Quill Tree Books.

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Challenger Deep Review

I review #ChallengerDeep by Neal Shusterman

Long time no see. My exams are finished now so I will be able to post more consistently. Today I have a book review for you. Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman. Caden Bosch is on a ship that’s headed for the deepest point on Earth: Challenger Deep, the southern part of the Marianas Trench. Caden Bosch is a brilliant high school student whose friends are starting to notice his odd…

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ok first off i really like how challenger deep doesnt portray caden as a sociopath or an outcast or w/e PLUS this scene really closely mirrors something that happened to me irl so you know, eek and all that

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“I sit with my friends for lunch. And yet I don’t. That is to say, I’m among them, but I don’t feel with them.”

yep, thats a thing that i have done, no doubt about it

“My friends scarf down their lunches, and laugh about something I didn’t hear. It’s not like I’m intentionally zoning out, but somehow I can’t land myself in the conversation. Usually I’ll play along. I’ll join in the laughter so I can stay camouflaged and appear to be in step with those around me. But today I’m not in the mood to pretend.” 

yeah man just thinking about your life being one big performance and constantly having to put on a show to your friends to prove that you’re normal exhausts me a lot and i do have days where im like, i’m burnt the fuck out guys i’m gonna have to take a rest for today and not make any jokes or try to appease you

“My buddy Taylor, who is slightly more observant than the others, notices my absence, and raps me gently on the arm.”

i love how he says ‘my buddy taylor’ like, my good pal richard. my chum jonas. my bosom buddy ricky. he’s not even introducing him he’s just quickly referring to him and he just calls him his buddy. i’m so into how this dude talks

“Hey, earth to Caden Bosch—where are you, man?” “In orbit around Uranus,” I tell him, which makes everyone laugh, and it starts a whole round of rude puns that all sound Cirque-ish, because I’ve already checked out again.”

yeah i’ve had this exact moment, where i zone out and someone pulls me back and i’m all, oh right. here’s a funny joke, because my first instinct is to make people not worry about it and thats a pretty smooth sailing way to do that. so everyone else is having a fun time and then you’re back on your bullshit again zoning out like an idiot

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Il viaggio di Caden di Neal Shusterman

Caden Bosch ha 15 anni ed è sempre stato un ragazzo estroverso, pieno di amici e di talento. Da qualche tempo però ha cominciato a sentirsi inquieto, a fare strani sogni e sentire sensazioni ossessive, maniacali, compulsive. Sempre più spesso si ritrova su un galeone che solca il mare alla volta della Fossa delle Marianne, tra tempeste e mostri marini che non riesce a controllare. Caden va in crisi, non distingue più reale e irreale. Da una parte si ritrova in ospedale, accanto al dottor Poirot e agli amici Hal, Carlyle, Skye e Callie. Dall’altra parte è combattuto tra la lealtà verso il capitano della nave e il fascino dell’ammutinamento. Il fondo della Fossa delle Marianne è sempre più vicino e Caden deve scegliere: lasciarsi andare o cominciare la risalita?

Traduzione di Mara Pace

304 pagine

€ 16,50

[mathgeek101]

Forget solar energy - if you could harness denial, it would power the world for generations.

Caden Bosch from Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman

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Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman ebook pdf Caden Bosch is on a ship that’s headed for the deepest point on Earth: Challenger Deep, the southern part of the Marianas Trench. Caden Bosch is a brilliant high school student whose friends are starting to notice his odd behavior. Caden Bosch...