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Chapter 3
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in It’s Kind of a Funny Story, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Mental Health
Art and Self-Discovery
Peer Pressure vs. Self-Empowerment
Friendship and Romance
Summary
Analysis
Craig tells Dr. Minerva that he liked making maps specifically by hand. Dr. Minerva reminds him to keep taking his medicine and seeing his psychopharmacologist, Dr. Barney.
Dr. Minerva reminds Craig that managing the symptoms of depression involves mundane tasks, like remembering to take prescriptions. This will become important later in the story.
Themes
