Hoboken High School

Inside Out: Paradoxical Tales: Told by the Juniors of Hoboken High School

Publisher Marketing: From the introduction: The writing of William Shakespeare encompasses the breadth of human emotion, embraces people of all social rank, and warns us of the dangers hiding beneath men's smiles. His are the stories of paradox-so startling a contrast, yet so universally true. There is no better inspiration for our paradoxical tales than this "Bard of Avon," who is the marrow from which so many stories flow. His words pour from our pens like spring showers and summer storms. The stories in "Inside Out" examine life through this paradoxical lens. Here "nothing is but what is not," we are "not so happy yet happier," we engage in "battles lost and won," and we discover that "fair is foul and foul is fair." We realize that certain conflicts "cannot be ill, cannot be good." In our tales, we find light at the end of a dark day, make an enemy of a friend, discover ourselves through inner turmoil, and turn a bad situation into one of great reward. In each of our tales, we relive moments of paradox. Through our writing, we have "given rise to expression so effective in expressing how we feel." You are, with us, tempest tossed. No need to clutch an umbrella. Let it blow inside out. Immerse yourself. We are raining Shakespeare.