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                The book I will review is “If I Stay” written by Gayle Forman. The book is about a seventeen year old named Mia Hall in which she talks about an out of body experience after falling in a coma after a car accident in which all her family dies . Mia watches all her memories flash by she must decide if it’s worth wakening up from her coma and living a difficult life or slipping away and die. Mia decides she will fight to live and stay with the people that love her even if he family is gone loved this book although I can’t even imagine what I would of done in her place.

       I would of liked if the author wouldn’t of left her all alone in the book Forman made it seemed like her brother  Teddy was going to live but her brother ends up dying I think if he would of survived it would have been much easier for her to decide if she wanted to live or die. but by her brother dying it devastated her more and she didn’t find a cause to live for before the brother dies Mia in her out of body experience visits her brother and tells him to be strong and that she will always be there for him but he dies . When Mia finds this out her brother has passed away she’s has no hope or will to live. One thing that I did enjoy when reading if I stay is that Mia has the love of her life with her supporting her and Mia knows that when she wakes up she’s going to have him by her side supporting her and to help her overtake the pain of the lost of her family. As well as she has her grand parents’ and best friend that will also be there for her and support her.

  In if I stay these quotes where the most meaning full to me . “I don’t know exactly what’s happened to me, and for the first time today , I don’t really care. I shouldn’t have to care. I shouldn’t have to work this hard. I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard” [page 174-175] this quote says that Mia was feeling while she was in coma she really wanted to wake up to see her friends and family again , but on the other she wasn’t sure if she was really ready to face a more difficult life. She was almost ready to give up till her best friend and boyfriend visited her and told her how much they would miss her if she never woke up. Another quote is “It’s the hardest thing I will ever have to do. I summon all the love I have felt, I summons all the strength that gran and gramps and Kim and the nurse and willow have gave me. I summon all the breath that mom, and dad, and teddy would fill me with if they could. I summon all my own strengths focus it like a laser beam into the fingers and palm of my right hand. I pictured my hand stroking Teddy’s hair, grasping a bow poised above my cello, interlaced with Adams and then I squeeze.” [page 234] In the end of the story, when Adam was in Mia’s room, Mia spent some time debating whether or not it would be worth it to wake up to spend time with her friends and family again. But Adam’s words “Don’t make me write a song” helped Mia make her choice. Which was for her to wake up. Lastly the best quote from if I stay is “Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.” [page 152] which says that a choice is when you can decide between two or more things and you get to picking which thing you want and which route to go.

 Work Cited

Forman,Gayle. If I Stay: A Novel.Vol.1. New York:Dutton,2009.Print

EPT Essay

                           

       

                 Sue Jozui believes that celebrities should not advertise products because by doing so they trick buyers into buying the products they advertise just simply because the celebrities on media claim to use the products of course the people just buy the products because they see the celebrities using them. My point of view is we choose what to listen to and also what to spend our money in.  So it’s up to us to decide if we want to spend our money on a product just because a celebrity advertises it on media. We should make a change by not buying the products at the end of the day the companies just want our money and their just using the celebrities as a way of catching our attention and making us want to buy their products. Celebrities should also make a change and should not be willing to get hired by these companies that trick us into buying their products. If we all stud up for this cause we would stop these companies from getting so rich with the money they take from us by tricking us into buying their products. 

My Autobiography

 

                                     

           My name is and I am seventeen years old I was born . I am the middle child in my family.  My family and I have always lived in Los Angeles. All the childhood memories I can remember are all very good. I have always been very close to my family. I am a high school student that attends Fairfax high school, and I’m a junior. After high school my goals are to become a successful fashion designer. I really hope to be able to accomplish all the goals I have set myself to.

    

     I am the middle child of five children , my  two younger sisters and I live with my parents  while  my two older siblings  don’t live with us anymore my oldest sister is 19 and my only brother is 21. I have a big family my parent’s siblings and me in total are seven siblings. Being the middle child can be very annoying at times because they expect a lot from me I guess it is also because am the oldest of their kids that lives with them so they know my  younger sisters in a way look up to me and what I do. I try my best and set the best examples for my younger sisters. One of my youngest sisters is 12 and attends Emerson Middle School the same middle school I attended, the smallest of my sisters is 7 and attends Saturn Street Elementary school the same school I also attended. My youngest sisters most of the time copy the things I do or say. For example if I say I want to go out with  some friends they’ll also say they want to go out with their friends and when my parents don’t let them they’ll say it’s not fair that I get to go out and they don’t .

    

       I am a junior high school student it is my third year in high school. Next year will finally be my last. They say high school is a place where you make friendships that will last for your life time. For me high school has been a fun place that I am sure I will always look back on and remember all the good memories and crazy things I have done. But high school is not all about fun, it can be a struggle for me to keep up with the classes and grades. I hope to be successful in the remaining time I have left in high school.

    After I have completed high school I wish to go to designing school. I am still unsure if I want to attend a school for design in California or out of state. Ever since I was little girl like about ten years old I knew that I wanted to become a designer. At ten years of age  my parents got me a notebook to draw and make my own designs in that notebook I would create dresses that I hoped one day I could actually make my dress designs and for someone to one day see my creations  and  want to wear my designs. I have never attended a fashion show but I wish to attend one sometime soon. Becoming a designer has been a goal for me  since age ten and I know that if I try my best and put effort into it one day I will accomplish it and become the fashion designer I want to be.

      

             I know that I will always count on my family and friends for support, I am very grateful for the people that surround my life. And I really hope to accomplish all the goal I have set myself for in life. I hope to one day look back at this  autobiography  and be able to say that I accomplished the goals I set myself  for.

what is an american ?

  Being an American to me is when you have multiple cultures for example when your family comes from another country. Because American is made up by multiple cultures and ethnic groups. They are people who come from other countries for a better place to live and also to have a  better future for their family and kids .
         family's from other countries come to the united states to have a better future because possibly their not doing so well in their own countries and they feel like they have a better future in America.
   America has also always   been a nation made up of multiple cultures which is what makes this country so unique and loved by others . Their has been times where not a ethnic groups have been treated equally in america because of race , skin color and your gender.