Brief Summary Of If I Stay By Gayle Forman

Summary: Where She Went by Gayle Forman is a sequel to If I Stay. This book picks up three years after the result of the first book. The story leads up telling the reuniting of the main characters, Mia and Adam. At the end of the first book Adam and Mia went their own separate directions, and their lives have become unusually different during the years apart. Mia is a talented, star cellist and a graduate of Juilliard, and Adam’s rock band has become extremely popular and widely known.

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

The story starts out when Emily and her parents were picking up Navin, they got into a car accident. Karen, David, and Emily would have survived the accident, but David did not

Jessica is a sixteen-year-old girl and a runner. Her whole life is running. She loves the sport and was a champion until there was an accident and she lost her leg. On the way back from a race, Jessica’s school bus was hit by a truck driver who was drunk. Her teammate Lucy, who was sitting right in front of Jessica died. Jessica was left with a horrible injury, her leg was lost. As Jessica is recovering from her accident, she learns to get help, believe in herself, she has a new special friendship with a girl with a disability, Rosa, and she finds a new

Deej Logan was just like any normal high school girl. She woke up on her first day of school and combed her hair, picked out the “perfect” outfit and headed out the door. What she didn’t know is that after that day nothing would be the same. Nothing that day seemed to be going right. At school drama was swarming all around her, not exactly what she hoped the first day would be like. By the time the last bell of the day rang she was more than happy to get out of that school. She drove home as quickly as she could but as soon as she got home she realized that she had forgotten to pick up her sisters. “Great.” She thought sarcastically as she sat back down in her car and drove off. Just then she pulled out her phone to message one of her friends about her awful day. That one decision changed everything. Before she had a chance to send the message Deej veered off into oncoming traffic and was killed on impact.

The hurricane in Florida had cause Miranda and her mom to move to St.Yvette with Miranda’s aunt and the grandfather she never knew. Going to school the following day Miranda gets paired up with five other people to do a project. The group she is put into is the first people she met when she got to school. Getting upset she realize that they are so different from her group of friends back when she was in Florida. In the end she they all become best friends.

My Story is about the kidnapping of 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart. She describes her time with her captors, from the beatings to the long nights crying out to her family and every detail in between. Smart showed true resilience and strength through her ordeal. She frequently mentions that her family and her mormon faith fueled her during those unimaginably, horrific nine months. The teenager was forced to ingest alcohol and drugs, and sometimes would go without food and water for days. By the time smart was found, she lost thirty-eight pounds. Smart says that she had been robbed on her virtue and self-worth. When she was found, at age fifteen, she described the feeling when being reunited with her family as a “rare moment of pure incomprehensible

In the essay "Don't Just Stand There", Diana Cole explains her views on speaking up against prejudice and offensive jokes or phrases. Cole's essay explains how she believes that speaking out against prejudice always makes a differences, even if it is not an immediate one. Cole explains the proper ways of speaking up, stating that lashing out usually ends badly but remaining calm can put a person in control. Cole discusses the proper way to respond to something offensive, how to handle speaking to an unresponsive person, how to handle peer pressure, and the best way to go about dealing with the prejudice of a superior. In Abigail's opinion, Cole's views on how best to deal with offensive comments are very wise. In Abigail's opinion, remaining

“This is Where I Leave You” is a movie that about when four siblings must come together to mourn their father’s death. As a part of what they are told is the father’s dying declaration they must return to the mother’s house for a week. During their stay, marriages are evaluated, exes reoccur, might have been relationships reappear, and family values are assessed.

Hannah, a freshman in college, has had a life of asthma, major depression, and epilepsy. While on theatrical stage in her first college debut, Hannah collapses on stage in a seizure. After running tests on Hannah in the hospital, the doctor suggests that her lifelong health issues could possibly be because she is a survivor of abortion. This is the first time Hannah not only learns she’s an abortion survivor, but adopted too. In anguish and searching for answers, Hannah journeys with her friends to Mobile, Alabama in search of her birthmother. When Hannah first reconnects with her birthmother, Cindy, tracking her down at her work office, Cindy rejects her yet as again as she did at her failed abortion. Hannah finds herself asking God what to do in her situation.

The main character, Dr. Christian Nielsen, and his wife Annie Collins are forced to cope with the tragic deaths of their two children Marie and Ian. The children’s deaths almost rip apart their marriage. Though they were able to pull through and remain together and repair a torn relationship. In a tragic turn of events, Christian is also killed in an auto accident while trying to help a motorist. It is that

In the The memoir, Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder, Rachel Reiland, began displaying symptoms related to fear of abadnoment in Kindergarten She writes of feeling her mother lied to her by telling her that Kindergarten was a place where she would have fun. It is also in Kindergarten where she begins displaying a pattern of unstable relationship and impulsive behavioral patterns towards her classmates and begins questioning her self-image. Throught her elemetary school years, Ms. Reiland begins directing intesene feelings of anager and saracasim towards teachers in authroitity, as well as contitues to engage in impulsive and risky behaviors. In high school, Ms. Reiland’s engagment in impulsive and risky behaviors

As the scenes are being described, remember that Mia is not really awake and walking around, it is just her subconscious. There are two scenes in the movie that express her subconscious state dramatically in their own ways. For example, Mia is wandering the hospital halls in her subconscious state and sees family rushing from the elevator towards the nurses station to ask if Mia and her family are okay. This is when Mia finds out her brother, Teddy, has died. Mia, in shock, runs through the halls crying. The camera is rushing through the busy halls and starts to blur when Mia falls to her knees in heartbreak. Suddenly, the halls are cleared and quiet as Mia sees a white light at the end of the hallway. The empty halls indicates that Mia feels nothing but emptiness and no longer wants to fight to live because she sees the white light, indicating heaven. This all changes when she hears the elevator door open and there is Adam rushing in. In this upcoming scene, Mia follows Adam back to her room. The expression on his face shows that he is in complete shock and is heartbroken. There is a quiet tone in the room as Adam sits down next to Mia and begins to whisper. Adam talks about Mia’s dream of being accepted into Juilliard, and how of an amazing person and cello player Mia is. The camera is steady and goes back and forth between both characters

Macy Mercer meets a boy online who she really likes. After a while of getting to know each other they plan to meet up at a local park. Macy goes to the park anxious to meet the boy, but ends up going missing. A day after she goes missing her parents call the police to file a missing person report. Macy realizes the man who kidnapped her was pretending

What if the world that one knows comes to an end? What if one day one wakes up and everything one once knew suddenly changes? “What and if two words as nonthreatening as words come But put them together side-by-side and they have the power to haunt you for the rest of your life: ‘What if?'...”(Friedman, Letters To Juliette 2006). “What” and “if” are two words that haunt Mia as she has an out-of-body experience after a terrible car accident. Published in 2009, “If I Stay” is a young adult novel written by Gayle Forman. The story follows as the 17-year-old music talented, Mia Hall experience a car accident that killed her whole family. In a coma, Mia has decision to make that would determine her fate. She has to choose whether she fights for