Nunzio DeFilippis & Christina Weir adapted F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button into a graphic novel. Fitzgerald depicted Benjamin Button, a man who ages in reverse, born as a seventy year old man and then becomes younger as the years pass. Reluctantly, his father and mother decided to raise Benjamin and tried to make him age like a normal child. He even tried to attend Yale University but they would not allow him to become a student because he looked old. As he and his father became closer in age, they became closer in bonds of friendship. When Benjamin was fifty, he met and married Hildegarde Moncrief. After a fifteen years of marriage, he began to grow bored in his marriage and chose to join the army and fight in the Spanish-American War. When he appeared to be twenty years old, Benjamin attended Harvard University and became a star football player. After he returned home from school, Benjamin had to stay with his son Roscoe because his wife Hildegarde lived in Italy. Embarrassed by his father, Roscoe asked Benjamin to pretend he was his uncle instead of his son. As he began to grow younger, his nurse Nana began to take care of him until he died.
Within my own classroom, I would use The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: A Graphic Novel to peak interest in the students for graphic novels in my students. Also, if the students were studying life cycles in science, I would have the analyze why Benjamin Button's case was so rare. In addition, I could read the book as a read aloud.
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