Miranda's Relationship In The Book 'When You Reach Me'

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In the book “When You Reach Me” Miranda and Sal have a close relationship that as the story goes on the relationship falls apart and comes back together. The relationship would of stayed stable if Marcus wouldn't of hit Sal. If Marcus did not hit Sal than Miranda wouldn’t meet Annemarie, Sal would not of ran into the road, and the laughing man would still be alive. The reader can tell that Miranda did not want the friendship to end by the following quote, “Sal played basketball more and more and talked to me less and that. I asked him four hundred times times weather he was mad at me, or what was wrong, and three hundred and ninety-nine times he answered Yes, No, Nothing.”(Stead 33) Since Miranda was so concerned about Sal, the reader can

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