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Dante teaches Ari about literature and poetry, while Ari is fascinated by Dante's swimming ability and sincerity. Dante tells Ari that he and his family are moving to Chicago for the next school term because his father was offered a temporary professorship at the University of Chicago. That same day, the two boys see a bird lying injured in the ...
After 15 years of marriage to his wife, an El Paso family court judge, he came out as gay, and they filed for divorce in 2009. [1] Sáenz was 54 when he came out. In an interview, he confirmed that he had struggled with this topic for a long time and that he saw writing as a way to overcome it. [3]
Meanwhile, Dante's letters speak of burgeoning homosexuality. Ari finally learns what caused Bernardo's imprisonment – he had killed a trans prostitute as a teenager. The Quintanas return at the beginning of the next summer. Ari and Dante drive out to the desert, where Dante asks Ari to kiss him. The kiss makes Ari uncomfortable and he ...
The director, Aitch Alberto, and the author, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, both grew into the truest versions of themselves alongside their art.
Two El Paso teens find themselves awakening to the wider world — and to each other — in Aitch Alberto's sensitive adaptation of Benjamin Alire Sáenz's beloved YA novel.
As someone who grew up in Texas back in the late 1980s, when “Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe” takes place, I can assure you: The last thing any closeted Southern teen ...
In the sequel, both Aristotle and Dante explicitly identify as gay while in the first book, aside from being in love with Dante, Aristotle's exact sexuality was never specified. Russel Middlebrook Min Wei Geography Club: 2003 Brent Hartinger: Gay Bisexual Russel is a gay man, while Min is a bisexual character in this novel. [114] Henry "Monty ...
Dante ends up leaving for Paris to attend the university. On a whim, Ari buys a plane ticket to visit Dante in Paris. Dante's father, Sam, corresponds with him and tells Dante where and when to meet him. They reconcile at the Louvre in front of Dante's favorite painting, The Raft of the Medusa by Géricault.