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Major themes
Marcelo in the Real World addresses the themes of suffering and dealing with bullying. Fransico X. Stork said that Marcelo “ is not acquainted with suffering,”and what would be described as “a saint’s world ‘before the fall’.”  The author also addresses the following questions: "Why is there suffering?  What does it mean to have knowledge of good and evil.”  Then another reviewer noticed that Marcelo expresses “a moral sensibility that ultimately thwarts a bully, or worse.”

Background
Stork spent time living at L’Arche, similar to Patterson in Marcelo in the Real World, with people with developmental disabilities, but Stork mentioned that “I first created the character Marcelo and then found out what might be a diagnosis for what he had -- as opposed to starting off [with a diagnosis].”

Adaptations
In the “audio production of Stork’s ...novel,”first sold in 2009, the narrator, Lincoln Hoppe, speaks in a “level, flat tone [which] matches Marcelo’s reluctance to talk in the first person.”