Book Review: If I Stay By Gayle Forman

A difference in the movie and the book is when Cassie was beating up Lillian Jean. This took place in the middle of “Roll of Thunder, Hear my cry” book. In the movie they did not show it as being an important event. At the end they showed a little flashback of Cassie beating up Lillian Jean. At the beginning

She wanted to learn more about how to shoot a gun. She wanted to be like one of the guys. The novel installs all these ideas, but it also allows the reader to use their creativity. It also gives more emphasis on little traits of the character that make the character more unique. Therefore, due to the film's inability to give audiences more information about the characters, their role and their emotions, the novel is much more informative.

However, there are just as many differences between the novel and the film. For example, at the end of the novel, Melinda tells Mr. Freeman about what happened to her. In the movie, she tells her mother about the incident. This affected the relationship between Melinda and her mother as portrayed in the novel. Their relationship in the novel was not very close at all. It would’ve been very shocking if at the end of the novel, Melinda told her mother about how she was raped.

In “You, If No One Else,” by Tino Villanueva, the speaker appears to a grownup, who either struggles with how they were raised and is trying desperately to help someone who is being raised in the same conditions. The speaker appears to be talking directly to the reader, trying to stop them from making the mistakes the speaker made. The speaker says “don't throw away/the most persistent truth,/ as our hard-headed brethren/ sometimes do./Remember well/ what your life was like.” The speaker is trying hard to hold on to that which they have themselves have already lost. We can gather this from how the speaker says “our hard-headed brethren”. The speaker speaks from experience but has a refusal to accept that everything throughout

After reading the poem “What I Learned from My Mother,” by Julia Kasdorf the reader will automatically get a connection about their mother from the title. The poem starts off by saying, “I learned from my mother how to love the living, to have plenty of vases on hand,” (156) telling the reader mothers teach children how to love and appreciate one another. Even the simple things such as learning how to cook and clean by themselves. Including offering refreshments to those that enter your home. Also, learning whatever we may disagree on certain things we will find a way to an agreement. After going over the poem “What I Learned from My Mother” I can appreciate and love my mother for the sacrifices she commits ever day to get an education for her.

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This book, I was here by Gayle Forman, is a life story about a girl, Meg, who committed suicide and her friends and family. She ended up killing herself to end her own pain where she had it since tenth grade. This decision gave her a freedom, but caused a huge disaster towards her people. The climax of this book is when Cody finally found a mysterious guy named Bradford Smith, who had pushed her to kill herself. As the story flows to the end, police caught Bradford by being one of the reasons that caused the Meg's death. The 'Final Solution boards', where Meg met Bredford, had shut down, and finally, they now could give Meg a grave that once they couldn't because they were Catholic, who can't accept this as an innocence. 'Megan Luisa Garcia

Throughout the movie, many things were the same as they were in the book, which is typically uncommon. The short story is more so preferred due to the fact that one can create images of the characters and build certain ideas about the storyline or ending. In a movie, everything can be provided for the viewers unlike a book, where images are created. The book also focuses more on the struggle for acceptance than the movie does. For instance, when reading the book, one might think that the mother and sister would be ugly, unlike Connie. Upon watching the movie, those thoughts can be changed due to the mother and sister being nothing like they were thought up to be. Also, while reading the book, Arnold was depicted as a dorky guy and he threw himself up onto the porch of Connie’s house. In the movie, Arnold appears to be decent and walks normally, he only slings himself onto the porch when he seems to be “daydreaming” while talking to Connie. Overall, the book is preferred over the

There were many differences between the book and the movie. The characters in the movie were very different from what I had imagined them to be. For example, in the book I imagined Mama Elena to be short, old, grumpy and miserable with her hair in a bun. Instead, in the movie, she is represented as a tall, slim elegant woman who is extremely violent. Also another difference would be Dr. John Brown.

In the movie it portrays things like her crying when she gets to her father and her actions when she gets to him. In the book, it says on page 71, “FATHER!” Meg screamed.” Even though the factor of all capitalized letters in the word Father does portray that Meg is very excited to see her Father, it doesn’t portray the feelings portrayed in the movie, such as her crying and her hugging her father tight. In the end, the book just doesn’t have as much feeling as the

When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead is a thrilling conundrum about a girl whose life changes forever when she receives four strange notes. By sixth grade, Miranda and her best friend Sal think they know New York City like the back of their hands. They know where it’s secure to walk, who it’s safe to talk to, and how to approach strangers. Straightaway though, Miranda’s life starts to untangle. One day, Sal is hit in the nose by a new kid for what seems like no reason. Sal starts ignoring Miranda, and after some time, he basically shuts her out of his life.Then, Miranda’s apartment key is taken. Miranda does not know what to, make of the note at first, so she sets it away. The notes keep coming though, from the same strange source. As

There were many differences in the characters relationships with each other. For instance Heather and Melinda’s relationship was very different from book to film. In the book Melinda and Heather meet during a welcoming assembly at school, while in the film they meet on the school bus and the assembly scene is omitted completely. Also in the novel they spend a lot more time together, Melinda was always over at Heathers house, went with her to her modeling shoots, and let Heather take all the credit for The Martha’s. So when Heather essentially broke up with Melinda it hurt even more. Another example is how different the family dynamics work, in the book the family barely communicates except for notes left for each other, the parents fight more

If I Stay is based on Gayle Forman’s best-selling novel. It about a 17 year old, talented cellist, Mia Hall. Her entire family are rock stars besides her, where she prefers classical music. She feels left out and out of place having no connection with her family throughout her life. One day she meets the love of her life, Adam who is also in rock band, but changes her life. Even being polar opposites they fall in love over their shared love in over music. On a snowy day her entire family decides to go on a trip get into a terrible accident. In an instant her life drastically changes when she is in coma due to the car accident. After the accident her parents and brother are dead and she has an out of body experience where she can see can see her physical self, but is not alive. In a life or death situation, it is up to her to decide whether she want live a changed life without her family or

In this movie, they take out many parts from the book. This does not necessarily change a lot of the initial concepts but it has an effect. When something is taken out, like a suicide attempt, it takes the intensity out of the movie that was received from the book. Though the movie teaches the lesson that the book does, it does not have the strength it did as in the book. That connect people get from reading

“All I’m saying is that it’s possible for guys and girls to be friends. I’ve never understood what the big deal is. I mean, yeah, we’ve had to deal with those stupid questions … Are you guys together? Why not?”. Macallan and Levi met each other in the 7 grade. On the first day of school they both knew that they were going to be best friends. If you’re a girl and you’re best friends with a boy (or vice versa), people are automatically going to assume that they like each other or that they are a “thing” or they are dating. Macallan and Levi’s friends knew that they were just friends, but they also thought that eventually they would end up dating at some point in time. In the book Better Off Friends by Elizabeth Eulberg, the author shows a change of events that happen in the plot of the book. These events are revealed when Macallan and Levi start to bond, when they become/are best friends, and when they finally realize that they both like each other as more than friends.