Changes In Gayle Forman's If I Stay

The patterns of dysfunctional relationships, drinking to get drunk, drunk driving, and black outs continued for Caroline until her parents died. First her father, a tragic death from a brain tumor, which at first led her to boozing to cope with the feelings, then a year later her

As my fifteen-year-old roommate falls to pieces, panic rises in my chest like a leaping flame. She lets out muffled screams and chilling sobs as she buries her face against the pillow. I kneel beside her and whisper reassurances. “You’ll be okay.” “No one will hurt you.” I pray she hears me but I know she doesn’t. She is trapped somewhere else - somewhere she revisits every day, like a bad song stuck in her head for life.

As I helplessly watch my fifteen year old roommate fall to pieces in front of me, I feel everything around me slow to a crawl. Blood pounds my ear drums, I feel the color drain from my cheeks, and my feet take me forward as if they have a mind of their own. I fall to my knees and suddenly everything speeds up again – the pounding in my ear drums intensifies, my hands are trembling but I manage to grasp the side of the bed in an attempt to bring myself close to her. Her face is buried into her sheet. Muffled screaming escapes her as I whisper gentle reassurances in her ear, hoping with everything I have that she can hear me. I know she doesn’t. Even if she does, she can’t make sense of it right now. She’s stuck somewhere else, somewhere she revisits every day of her life and every time she closes her eyes to sleep.

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.

Alice runs away again, this time on her own. She struggles to survive, and only cares about drugs. After a few weeks, she breaks down and calls her parents. She goes back home with them. Again, she swears off of drugs. The kids she used to hang around are pressuring her to do drugs again, and even start bullying her. This time, however, Alice stays off of drugs. She deals with the bullying. She meets and falls for a nice guy and she’s closer with her family. Things start to look up when she’s drugged. Her family believes her, but she is sent to an insane asylum. It’s very difficult, but she gets through it and is let out.

she thinks the more she comes to realize that she had lost her identity along the way. She in

In my book Drums,Girls Dangerous, Pies by Jordan Sonnenblick there are many themes in the book. One theme the book has is life is a test so cherish it all that you can. This theme is really big at one really specific part. One part in the end of the book were Steven meets this girl named Samantha who also had cancer like his brother Jefferey and she eventually pases away. In the book it states “ I really love having ice-cream cake on my birthday” This really showed the reader that Samantha really loved having Ice-cream cake for her birthday and she cherished that exact moment untill she died. This also showed that Samantha might have not gotten to do what she loved before her death but she really cherished it. This is one example that

In part one of the novel, the narrator looks back in her life and tries to see how she used to be, in order to become who she wants to be. She is on a quest to find her father back in her old hometown, and as she’s there she does not remember any of it. She did not have the best family life because her mother would call her uncivilized and her brother was in the war. She does specifically talk about a childhood memory where her father made her brother stay in a cage, until one day he “escaped” and started drowning, which is always in the back of her mind. A family friend, Paul, tells her that her father is missing and she is relieved because he never forgave her for her divorce, so as long as he is alive she does not want to find him, symbolizing

Compassionate individuals are essential to the recovery of individuals who have experienced extreme trauma. In The Girl who Fell from the Sky, by Heidi Durrow, Drew, Aunt Loretta's fiance before her death was always a presence in Rachel’s life. After the death of Loretta, Rachel’s grandmother began drinking heavily, leaving Rachel on her own again. Drew stepped in and became a reliable parent figure for Rachel, helping her even though he was not fully aware of her situation, “ ‘And the blues-- it’s like that bottle... It’s full of those feelings that are in there, but beautiful and growing too.’

The author’s topic is about a teenager name Susanna Kaysen. At 18 she voluntarily turned herself into McLean Hospital.

If I Stay Choices are big parts of people's life. They decide on everything and it is not always easy. In the story if i stay for Mia she has to make the hardest choice of her life. Mia is faced with the most important decision she will ever have to make whether to give in to her injuries or fight to stay alive. The author Gayle Forman uses techniques such as revinling the actions, inner thinking , and tone to set support the theme: That not everything in life is easy.

The supplementary text that I chose from the summer reading list is “If I Stay” by Gayle Forman. This novel is about a girl whose name is Mia, that gets into a car accident. This car accident is so severe that Mia’s parents and brother died and left Mia in a coma. While Mia is in a coma, she has to decide whether or not to live. It is a choice that can change Mia’s life. She can either finish everything there or continue to live on.

Susanna Kaysen’s Girl, Interrupted: Telling Susanna’s journey through therapy and being sent to McLean Hospital when she wasn’t sure if she needed the help or not. She meets new people, and goes through many new experiences. Susanna thought at first that she was wrongly admitted to the hospital, then ends up not wanting to go back into the world unprotected.

Thinking that life could return to some kind of normalcy following the release from serving three years in prison for the death of her son. This mother/convict’s nightmare was just beginning, hearing her child’s voice and replaying of the court testimony softly in her head, well at least that is what she thought until she realized that she really wasn’t going crazy and that there was someone behind

She becomes numb and looses her memory all for her family. After she regains almost all of her memories, she remembers that she had a son. She remembers that he died young, but she also remembers him older. She remembers everything. Dan and Natalie would like her to go back on her medication and try again but she refuses.