Lauren Oliver's Before I Fall

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An insightful woman whose name is Lauren Oliver wrote this young adult novel, Before I Fall. The novel is published by HarberCollins in February 14, 2010. Recently, Ry Russo-Young directed this novel to an American drama film. This fiction is expressing about a young girl who is kind of losing herself in daily school life fell into a cycle of the last day before the accident. Samantha Kingston is the main character who is the young high-school girl has a debonair life with full of good friends, hot boyfriend and nice appearance until the Friday, the accident, came. As everyone thought, her life ends. But Samantha woke up at the same Friday as well as days after until she realized… The reason why I am interested in is that the novel plays a …show more content…

No matter she realized the cycle or not she still spent the day in school and went to the party with her friends. The following is the coming of Juliet and her swear, everything happens exactly the same as yesterday, which is actually the last today. Samantha went back with Lindsay and other friends. Likewise, they got a car crash and this time she checked the time, it is 12:39 again. It is the third Friday, Samantha had the similar thought that is ‘In my dream I am failing forever through darkness.’ (130). She missed few periods of school and for some reasons, the four of them stays in Lindsay’s house that night. In the midnight, everybody got a message which says Juliet killed herself with a gun. Everyone was disturbed. What is more important, Samantha found out that Lindsay was friend with Juliet in few years ago…… They all fell asleep in Lindsay’s house but Sam woke up in her own house, her own bed and with her own alarm. Now, she is thinking about the relationship between Lindsay and Juliet. In my opinion, I think there must be some misunderstanding between them or may be because Juliet knew some secrets of …show more content…

She went to school and decided to send Juliet a rose and also Kent. Besides, Samantha also determined to make an honest apology to Juliet. To avoid the car accident between Lindsay’s car and Juliet, she required that Lindsay went to the party without her car. Everything was all set and waiting for the party at night. Likewise, Samantha met Juliet and kept her from the party. They had a drastic conversation. She wanted to rescue Juliet exceedingly when Juliet howled that it is too late and she denied it and said, ‘It is never too late! ’. Somehow, I assume that this is the most outstanding quote and the climax from the book. The reason why I consider this excerpt as my favorite is that I entirely agree that nothing is late if you start as soon as possible. For instance, if a friendship is broken by mistakes, instead of leaving the rupture, it would be comforting to have an apology no matter when. Looking back to their conversation, the despair is ingrained in Juliet’s heart, which led her had the thought of a firm determination of death. Here came a flash of van light, and Juliet followed. Although Samantha was confused about the appearance of the van, she tried to catch Juliet and she had a thought that she had to save Juliet even dedicate her life. There were only few centimeter between the van and Juliet, Samantha pushed Juliet vigorously at the last second. Suddenly, an earsplitting sound made by

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