Please Ignore Vera Dietz Themes

In Please Ignore Vera Dietz, Vera deals with some pretty major betrayals from the people that she loves. They seem to just pick up and leave her behind, without ever looking back. This first h...

The friendship between Vera and Charlie is the defining relationship in Please Ignore Vera Dietz. They may have some romantic feelings for each other, but that hardly matters in the grand scheme of...

Lying versus telling the truth is an internal battle that many of the characters—from Vera to her father—face in Please Ignore Vera Dietz. Vera's been brought up by a dad who believes in always...

In Please Ignore Vera's Death, the circumstances surrounding Charlie's death are rife with guilt and grief. Who's responsible for killing him? Why was he such a jerk to Vera up until the end of his...

Vera and her dad both come from a family that struggles with addiction, and so addiction is a big part of the story in Please Ignore Vera Dietz. When we first meet Vera, she's coping with Charlie's...

In Please Ignore Vera Dietz, Vera is faced with some super tough choices when it comes to her friend Charlie's death. Because Charlie died after their friendship fell apart, Vera needs to decide if...

Please Ignore Vera Dietz chronicles the story of Vera Dietz now that she's a senior in high school, but it also includes plenty of chapters that take the reader back to Vera, Charlie, and Ken Dietz...

Sometimes you just have to do things that you don't want to do, which is exactly what happens to Vera in Please Ignore Vera Dietz after her former friend Charlie dies. Vera knows that it's her resp...

She may just be a teenager, but Vera is definitely growing up into an adult quickly in Please Ignore Vera Dietz—and it's not all a great experience. We see flashbacks to Vera's childhood and her...

Family—or the lack thereof—is heavy on the mind of all the main characters in Please Ignore Vera Dietz. Vera struggles with the fact that her mother left their family, while Charlie constantly...