“If I stay” a book written by Gayle Forman was a story about a seventeen year old girl by the name of Mia Hall who lives in her Oregon with her Mom, Dad, and brother. On a snowy morning Mia and her family decide to go see their family members since school was cancelled due to the snow, but after driving for some time Mia wakes up in her car, the only problem is the car has been totaled by a pickup truck. After Mia climbs out the car she sees her dead parents and brother as well as her own body, throughout the book she argues if she should die with her parents or stay and live with her other friends and family who are alive. During the scene when Mia sees her parents and brother dead she starts to panic and freak out, to calm herself down she
The plot of this book begins with the fact that Canadian girl named Laura finds out that her father is a humble pensioner, a former teacher, committed suicide from the bridge, during
Since the start of this quarter I have been reading the novel Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight and I am currently on 153. This book is about Amelia Barron and her alleged suicide. Right before Amelia jumped from the roof of her private school, she was caught cheating on a test. Amelia’s mother, Kate, is in disbelief that her sweet, perfect, obedient daughter would turn recalcitrant, and in even more disbelief that her daughter would commit suicide. When Kate gets an anonymous text stating that Amelia did not jump, she set out to find out what really happened to her daughter. This book jumps from three main perspectives; the perspective of Kate after Amelia dies, the perspective of Amelia before she dies, and various sources of social
After the death of her brother, Werner, she becomes despondent and irrational. As she numbly follows her mother to the burial
While she might think that her plans are working, they only lead her down a path of destruction. She lands in a boarding house, when child services find her, she goes to jail, becomes pregnant by a man who she believed was rich. Also she becomes sentenced to 15 years in prison, over a street fight with a former friend she double crossed. In the end, she is still serving time and was freed by the warden to go to her mother’s funeral. To only discover that her two sisters were adopted by the man she once loved, her sister is with the man who impregnated her, and the younger sister has become just like her. She wants to warn her sister, but she realizes if she is just like her there is no use in giving her advice. She just decides that her sister must figure it out by
She needs to be strong for the whole family while dealing with this tough situation, and most importantly, she has to be encouraging for her daughter. Jessica’s mom murmurs to her, “Things will get better. I promise you, they will” (Van Draanen 58). Her mom knows that her life is grim and it feels like the end of the world to her daughter. She can only make her feel better by continuing to encourage her and give her love and support. Jessica thinks to herself, “She waves back, but even from the curb I can feel her worry, and I suddenly realize that it has nothing to do with the wheelchair or with me falling. The last time Fiona drove me away in her Subaru, it took me more than a week to come home” (Van Draanen 77). Her mom has to decide whether she is going to live in fear of her daughter getting hurt every time she leaves home. This accident was a trying time for everybody in their family and it affected all of
...to take it anymore. Julian's mother didn't realize this, she thought she was being "gracious." The stroke Julian's mother receives at the end is a direct result of her failure to adapt to her current setting.
Flannery O 'Connor wrote The Life You Save May Be Your Own in 1955. She had a terminal illness and focused many of her stories on the truths of reality. Within this story, she describes an innocent girl, Lucynell, and the dishonest people around her. She keeps Lucynell a constant innocence throughout the story as the other characters lose their purity. The main thing separating Lucynell from the other characters is her lack of sensibility and general awareness of reality. Flannery O’Connor reveals innocence is only for the unaware using color imagery, situational irony, and allusion.
she is able to meet her twin sisters that have been missing from her life for over 30 years.
Maya knows that to be black and female is to be faced with violence and violation. This is brought into focus when she goes to live with her mother and is raped by her mother’s boyfriend. When Maya is faced with this catastrophe, tells who did this to her, and the man is killed, she believes her voice killed him. She withdraws into herself and vows never to speak again. Her mother feeling that she has done everything in her power to make Maya talk, but can cannot reach her, sends Maya and her brother back to Stamps. After Maya returns to Stamps and with the help of her Teacher-Ms. Flowers she begins to speak again.
This story is about a young Lady that lives in California with her mother and Father. She
and shock of the death of her sister. She speaks in a low tone of
The climax is illustrated and clarified through the symbolic tearing or exposing of the bare walls. She wants to free the woman within, yet ends up trading places, or becoming, that "other" woman completely. Her husband's reaction only serves as closure to her psychotic episode, forcing him into the unfortunate realization that she has been unwell this whole time.
...In her death-throes, she lands on her brother, causing him to die of fright. The narrator escapes only to see the entire
Jeanette wall a young girl with 3 siblings, 2 sisters and a brother an alcoholic father that was a malicious and her mom is struggling to be an artist. They never really settled down to a permanent home and were always on the road. The traveled to extraordinary towns, Jeanette loved it and was a very adventurous child at heart. Where she wrote this book it is based in the 70’s and lots of towns and families are struggling. Jeanette didn't see moving from town to town as a struggle, it was a never ending adventure with her parents and her siblings that were also her best friend. They didn't have a lot of money most of the time and struggled to make ends meet most of the time
Mazvita becomes mentally unstable as she continues to repress her memories. She subsequently continues to live as though it...