Music
When Eleanor and Park first start interacting on the bus to school, they bond over comic books as Eleanor reads Watchmen, Batman, and others silently over Park’s shoulder when they’re forced, by chance…
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Eleanor’s Clothes
Eleanor never looks “nice,” thinks her boyfriend Park—she looks like “art.” Eleanor, a self-admittedly big-boned teen girl with flaming red curls that she can never seem to tame, dresses in bizarre and ill-fitting clothes…
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Romeo and Juliet
In Mr. Stessman’s English class, Eleanor, Park, and their other classmates study Romeo and Juliet—one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays. As Eleanor and Park’s obsessive, all-consuming love for one another takes…
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