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Far From You Life Lessons

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Far From You While reading this book, the reader gets taught a handful of lessons to look back and reflect on. These lessons can be applied to his or her life just like they were applied to Sophie's. After Sophie lost her best friend and secret lover, Mina, due to a murder. Sophie had to learn how to cope with the grief. While she learns to cope with losing her best friend, and being crippled due to a car accident that happened with Mina and her brother Trev months before. She also has to focus on steering clear of drugs. Drugs have became her best friend ever since the car accident, she used them to take off the edge and also help with the pain. Before Mina was murdered, the murderer knocked Sophie out and planted drugs on her because they knew she was clean. When the cops found the girls, they thought that they went to brookers point to score on drugs. The real reason they were really out at the point was that Mina thought she was getting information on a story she was writing. Little did they know only one would walk out alive. …show more content…

Sophie had to learn how to overcome losing her best friend, becoming crippled after a car accident, a drug addiction and also losing her significant other. When Mina tells Sophie's parents that she never quit using, she chose to be sent to her aunt's house instead of a mental ward. She thought this was the best idea because it will get her away from the place that triggers the drug use. The only way she could get better was admitting that she had a problem, and that's what she did. Sophie tells her aunt “you're right, I'm a drug addict. I have a problem”(76). After Sophie admitted this she could finally get help. She also went to yoga every day to become stronger and take back control over her crippled leg and messed up back. When she got help with these it helped her move forward. Lastly, she could finally move forward from Mina’s death after she caught who killed

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