![]() ![]() ![]() While at the same time, he is the most unnoticed. Leonard is the most likable character in the novel. *Spoiler Alert* - Even if you know that Leonard is killed half-way through the book, it still comes as a shock. He is characterized, in the novel, like Dorothy - "more the type to be heading toward a place like Oz, as in The Wizard of." He never gets there. ![]() While he is never outright labeled as gay, Leonard carries all the packaging of the gay male effeminate stereotype. Leonard has all the Packaging of a Gay Stereotype Leonard seems oblivious to the fact that Phoebe does not take to lightly to his fashion decisions - pink and lime-green capri pants and a "too small T-shirt." However, for Phoebe, Leonard was "way too different." And it is this aversion to difference that Lecesne grapples with in this book. When he first arrives at his aunt's house - to move in - he is met with derision by his cousin, Phoebe, who is also the narrator of the story. Leonard is characterized as a nice, talkative fourteen-year-old boy. Almost as a counterpoint, in Absolute Brightness(2016),* James Lecesne tells the story of a teenager, Leonard Pelkey, who is murdered in Neptune, New Jersey. He wrote a novella that was adapted into a short film about a precocious boy who feels rejected by his family and attempts suicide - only to be rattled back to his senses by a cute candy striper at the hospital. In the late 90s, James Lecesne raised awareness about gay teen suicide. ![]()
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