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    Simon is a 16-year-old boy leading a normal life, but harboring a secret - that he is gay. He anonymously connects online with another closeted boy, "Blue", through email. As Simon tries to figure out Blue's identity, things become complicated with school drama and friends discovering Simon's secret. The climax occurs when Simon is outed publicly against his will. In the resolution, Simon finds the courage to officially come out at school. His love, "Blue", is revealed to be his classmate Bram, who kisses Simon, showing that they both deserve a great love story despite the challenges of coming out.

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    Love Simon

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    Simon is a 16-year-old boy leading a normal life, but harboring a secret - that he is gay. He anonymously connects online with another closeted boy, "Blue", through email. As Simon tries to figure out Blue's identity, things become complicated with school drama and friends discovering Simon's secret. The climax occurs when Simon is outed publicly against his will. In the resolution, Simon finds the courage to officially come out at school. His love, "Blue", is revealed to be his classmate Bram, who kisses Simon, showing that they both deserve a great love story despite the challenges of coming out.

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    Simon is a 16-year-old boy leading a normal life, but harboring a secret - that he is gay. He anonymously connects online with another closeted boy, "Blue", through email. As Simon tries to figure out Blue's identity, things become complicated with school drama and friends discovering Simon's secret. The climax occurs when Simon is outed publicly against his will. In the resolution, Simon finds the courage to officially come out at school. His love, "Blue", is revealed to be his classmate Bram, who kisses Simon, showing that they both deserve a great love story despite the challenges of coming out.

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    Love Simon

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    Simon is a 16-year-old boy leading a normal life, but harboring a secret - that he is gay. He anonymously connects online with another closeted boy, "Blue", through email. As Simon tries to figure out Blue's identity, things become complicated with school drama and friends discovering Simon's secret. The climax occurs when Simon is outed publicly against his will. In the resolution, Simon finds the courage to officially come out at school. His love, "Blue", is revealed to be his classmate Bram, who kisses Simon, showing that they both deserve a great love story despite the challenges of coming out.

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    Name: Doan Thi Minh Hoa ID: 1610 710 060

    Question: The last statement of the story: “Everyone deserves a great love story”. Write an
    essay of about 500 words to analyse the climax and the resolution (falling actions) to prove
    that Simon deserves.
    Essay:
    Just ten years ago, a typical romantic movie for teenagers would revolve around the journey to
    find true love of girls and boys, as was illustrated in the famous 10 Things I Hate About You, The
    Princess Diaries or High School Musical. If there were any representation of homosexuality, it
    would usually for making fun. With the wave of LGBTQ right movement, however, things are
    changing in the cinematic world. One outstanding example is the recently released ‘Love, Simon’,
    a story of ordinary gay folks looking for love. In a simple but attractive way, the movie proves
    that, like it states in the end, “Everyone deserves a great love story”.
    Simon, the protagonist, is a 16-year-old boy leading a seemingly normal life. He lives with his
    parents and younger sister in an Atlanta suburb. His mother is a mental therapist, while his dad
    is a jovial guy. At school, Simon has a close-knit crew: childhood bestie Leah, soccer player Nick,
    and the new girl Abby. But as Simon tells us via voiceover in the opening minutes, “I’m just like
    you, except I have one huge-ass secret,” this is not another cheesy old school love story.
    Love, Simon’s plot thickens with the appearance of an anonymous blog post in which a student
    reveals, under the name “Blue,” that he is gay. Hungry for a sense of solidarity and connection,
    Simon creates a new email address and replies under the name Jacques. Here begins a kind of
    epistolary friendship between the two young men who share their yearnings and stressfulness of
    keeping their true gender a secret in confessional notes. Simon soon sets about trying to figure
    out whom he has been communicating with. But when one classmate, Martin discovers his
    secret, he blackmails Simon into helping him win Abby’s heart. Things get complicated since Nick
    also has a crush on Abby, Leah may be nursing feelings for Simon, and Simon still does not know
    the identity of the boy he is in the process of falling in love with.
    The movie reaches its climax when Martin reveals screenshots of the emails between Simon and
    ‘Blue’ after his tragically failing love confession to Abby. Simon is extremely confused and
    stressed out when his coming-out does not go as planned. Things even aggravate when his closest
    friends figure out Simon’s lies in an effort to help Martin sneaks in between Nick and Abby. But
    the last thing Simon wants, that Blue permanently ends their email conversation after knowing
    Simon’s identity, puts Simon in his worst status quo. Fortunately, Simon finally puts a brave face
    and posts an official coming-out letter on his school’s forum, together with inviting Blue for a
    “date”. This action helps him explain to his friends the lies he told, the hardship he has been
    through while keeping his true self a secret from even his most loved ones. The audience’s hearts
    and breaths must have been so grasped as Simon reaches his final ride in the sun wheel but Blue
    still yet to come. However, as “everyone deserves a great love story”, to Simon’s surprise, Bram,
    who was one of Simon’s suspects but was soon ruled out, shows up and kisses him, revealing
    himself to be Blue. This is not only a happy ending for Simon, but also for Bram, who had been
    struggling with publicly coming out.
    Coming out is never an easy task, especially for young adults. Surrounding them are stereotypes
    by the society, and the deep fear that their loved ones will look at them in a different way. How
    brave Simon has been to kiss his man in front of hundreds of curious eyes, and because of that
    bravery, he deserves the sweet love with Bram.

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