"Gracefully Grayson" is a book that I just started reading. I fund this book from a YouTuber that I watch. I actually noticed a lot of YouTubers read this book , so I decided to check it out. I've only read the first chapter but I am intrigued to keep reading.
          So far this book is introducing the main character Grayson who "he" is girl trapped in the wrong genders body, this book is basically about this teenage boy who has this secret that is afraid to be who he really is. The first scene is set in a class room,, where Grayson is doodling on the margins of his paper, he starts to explain how when you are drawing stick figures that when you draw a triangle as the body, people automatically think that it is a girl. And this is what he was drawing on his papers. Actually it was a princess, but he drew it abstract enough with his, silver, and gold sparkly pens that you couldn't tell what he was drawing. Yes, he is using sparkly gel pens, Grayson says he has other color pens, like pink and purple, but he keeps them in his top drawer of his desk.
           When he is in class his teacher asks him a question "Why do you think people should keep a secret from other people" and Grayson's answer was " I think people should keep a secret because you don't have to risk being vulnerable, and people finding out the truth." which I felt so sad for him because he is afraid of people finding out about the real person he is.  

 

I am super excited to keep reading this book, the writing style of Amy Polonsky is very easy going and easy to understand because it is such an easy read. But the book its self is what I'm excited about. But back to the writing style of the book, I don't really have much to say about since I've just began reading. I really cant wait to see what happens with Grayson and if he gains the courage to be the person he is meant to be! 

          The proposal that I have for my Multi-genre Research Project is, that my topic relates mostly to a cultural interest. My topic is self confidence,  I will mostly be relating to teenagers when doing this research topic, probably from the ages fifteen to eighteen. It says that I will have to interview people, and I think instead of doing just two people, I will do four; a girl and boy freshmen or sophomore, and the a girl and boy junior or senior. But, I don't know who those people will be yet, and I would rather they be people I'm not very close to, or know very well. I will probably end up doing people I know but I want to try my hardest not to, but it might be easier to do that. I think that I will be able to get the interviews sometime next week, because that gives me time this week to think and find people to interview. I don't know a whole bunch on my topic, other than that all types of people are effected by it, whether it's in a positive, or negative way. The way I plan on gathering my information is by watching documentaries, and reading a lot of peoples articles, or maybe even blogs that people with confidence issues have posted before, and if there are any statistics on something like this it might be interesting to add. The reason why I find this topics personally meaningful is because after reading one of the example papers that we looked at, it just got me thinking a lot about other people. And the way that they might feel about themselves, also I find it really intriguing on how the way other people view themselves, than by other people viewing them. It also made me start realizing how I view myself, and how I will be hard or easy on myself on the way I look or act.