When You Reach Me Analysis

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Hi Tatiana, I really enjoyed reading your post and I think that you did a great job explaining what contrasts and contradictions can be found in the book When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead. I liked how you did a contrast between Miranda and her mother and how Miranda acts more like the adult and her mother acts more like the child in the relationship. When reading the book I noticed how Miranda almost takes over as being the more responsible one in the family, as opposed to her mother. Another example that I found while reading that shows the audience a contrast and contradiction is when in the story it states, “I just gave a sandwich to a homeless guy! You’re the one who works for criminals and hangs around with pregnant jailbirds.” “Not …show more content…

I especially like the Aha Moment that you have selected about Miranda and Sal’s friendship because it is something that Stead brings up several times throughout her book. While reading the story, we gain information from Miranda that Sal and her used to be best friends, but then one day she explains to us, Sal stopped talking to her. We never learn why Sal stopped talking to Miranda, until the very end of the book, which for me was a big aha moment because the puzzle is finally solved for us and we learn the reason why Sal stopped talking to Miranda and stopped walking to school and home with her because in the story it states, “That’s the thing, Mira. It wasn’t normal. I didn’t have any other friends! Not real friends” (Stead 169). When Sal, tells this to Miranda, we are able to see that their friendship had faded because Sal wanted to find different friends, other than Miranda. This was a very important aha moment for me because I finally learned why Sal stopped talking to Miranda and I think that Stead saved this aha moment for the end of the story because she gave us clues that were leading up to the big

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