Life As We Knew It Essay

What if we all lived on a plant that has to witness natural disasters always happening? Well in Life as We Knew it by Susan Beth Pfeffer you get to experience all of this. This book is a story in first perspective about a girl, Miranda, who has to experience an asteroid crashing into the moon. When the asteroid crashed into the moon, they thought they were prepared to watch the asteroid hit, but they weren’t. After this monumental moment Miranda’s mom decides it would be good to stock up on food and clothing. Her family goes into stores scavenging for the food that was left in the stores. Later in the story, there isn’t a lot of food left to live off of, and the natural disasters aren’t making their situation better. As a result, her family starts to get weak because of their lack of food. Most people

This is particularly showed when Miranda has to survive all the natural disasters with her family, but they also have to go through all of this with very little food as the story goes on.”I hate the moon. I hate tides and earthquakes and volcanoes. I hate things that have absolutely nothing to do with me can destroy life and the lives of people I love.” (Pfeffer,130) As reading the book, you can imply that people experiencing this might of felt the same way. I thought this quote was also important because it concluded that there was a lot of natural disasters hence, her thought showed us that they were hard to overcome. Another part where the theme is shown would be when Matt says,” The smartest thing we can do is assume that things are going to get a lot worse. Mom and I were talking about precautions we can take now, so that if it’s a rough winter, we’ll be in better shape.” (Pfeffer,122) As shown in the quote, their family is talking about making a plan to make it through the winter.The passage ties into the theme because the characters are talking about survival, which is carried throughout the whole