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
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