If I Stay Book Report

Mia is the central character of this story. She is kind, musically gifted, and quiet. She cares a lot about her family and friends and also, she possesses a deep love for her cello. Mia

They got into a car accident on the way over which leads to her coma and the death of her mom, dad, and brother. This is a significant change because she has to make many decisions for herself: should she die or should she continue to live her life. There were many results of this change such as her relatives and close friends visiting her constantly, staying with her family that is still alive, and having different surgeries. Many of Mia’s family and friends visit her while she’s in the hospital bed. “I have quite the crowd now. Gran and Gramps. Uncle Greg. Aunt Diane. Aunt Kate. My cousins Heather and John and David. Dad is one of five kids, so there are still lots more relatives out there” (62). Everyone is in the hospital for Mia because they care about her and she knows that they’re fighting for her which makes her want to fight to stay too. Mia’s little brother, Teddy, was at a different hospital than her which is why everyone was there at once. She knows she has to stay with her family and friends that she still has with her instead of leaving them and choosing to die. “‘Stay.’ With that one word, Adam’s voice catches, but he swallows the emotion and pushes forward” (230). Other family members want her to stay with them because they all love her very much and Mia has to have many different surgeries because she has a lot of injuries. They want to give her confidence during the surgeries. Another major effect of the accident was the abundance of surgeries.“There are a lot of things wrong with me. Apparently, I have a collapsed lung. A ruptured spleen. Internal bleeding of unknown origin. And most serious, the contusions on my brain. I’ve also got broken ribs. Abrasions on my legs, which will require skin grafts; and on my face, which will require cosmetic surgery - but, as the doctor's note, that is only if I’m lucky” (40). Since

When they pulled up to Mia's house Erik walked her the door and kissed her goodbye. Mia walked into a dark as the house not being able to see anything. As she turned around she saw her mother turn on the lamp. "Mom you frightened me, Mia said." "Where have you been young lady, Sheila asked?" "I was out with dad and the others, she responded. Right then and there Mia saw something different in her mom that she never saw before. She knew that her mom was a different person than who she was

The beginning of The Notebook opens with the gentleman, Noah in a nursing home facility. We soon learn that he is living at the facility to be close to his wife, Allie who has Alzheimer’s. Allie is introduced to Noah, and he offers to read her a story. They are in the sunroom at the nursing home, and unbeknownst to her he begins to read her a love story. Due to Allie’s disease she is unaware that the story she is listening to is her own read by her true love. Noah begins to share about the summer romance that began one night in the 1940’s at a carnival. We see Allie and Noah fall madly in love only to be torn apart by her parents that do not believe he is worthy of their daughter because of his place in society. Allie’s parents take her away from the love of her life to focus on school, and to find a socially acceptable husband for their daughter. Noah cannot forget Allie so easily and writes to her everyday for a year. When he doesn’t hear back from her we see them both move on with their lives.

This book begins with the life of its author. She starts out as basically a slave child on a farm in Mississippi. She tells of her parent's lives, how they went to the fields at sun up and came back from them at sundown. She describes her abusive cousin, George Lee, and tells of a few traumatic childhood experiences. She goes on describing where her mother and fathers marital

“Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.” These are the powerful words from the story If I Stay written by Gayle Forman. Gayle Forman was born on June 5, 1970. She is an American young adult fiction author. She was best known for her novel If I Stay which topped the New York Times.

DeShawn, kid who lives in the projects, has a choice to get out of the project. This book If I Grow Up describes what it’s like to live in the project. It’s like living in the opposite of heaven. DeShawn has a choice to get out of the project many ways, here are some ways he could get out of the projects; he could get a job, stay in school, and work with officer Patterson.

The book set in 1964, tells the heartwarming story of Lily Owens, a teenaged girl who suffered for years at the hands of her father after the death of her mother. The only friend she had was her nanny Rosaleen.

What would you choose? Would you stay or go? Well, that's what Mia is facing. Mia is a 17 year old cello player who had an audition to Juilliard, a rock star boyfriend, a future ahead of her. That was until she was in a car accident. Now she has lost her mom, dad, and brother. She doesn't know whether to stay or go at this point. The main character's in the book is Mia, Adam(Mia's boyfriend), Kim(Mia's best friend), Mia’s mom, dad, brother Teddy, and her gramps. Although there are major differences between the book and the movie, each equally enjoyable. For various reasons I like the book and the movie equally because it shows the relationships with the characters differently.

On top of that, a new girl at school has gone missing and is possibly murdered. Soon she gets caught up in the mix of it and the messages begin playing with her head and heart. The climax of the story is when Clare is kidnapped at her school dance in the back of a trunk with her worst enemy. In the end the story is resolved when Clare finds out who her stalker is and meets her brother. Her brother uses his power to sense something is wrong and drives to the house his gift is telling him to save his sister.

(p.154) 4.My favorite aspect of the noval is how a single pill transformed Mia into a new person. The pill made Mia selfish and inconsiderate. Moreover, it made her relationship with Sophie to drift apart. Also Mia had family problems, where Mia thinks her mother was trying to control her life. It apealed to me because its realistic story of what might happen if teens take

The Protagonist of this book is Steffi Perry and her and her family have to go through lots of struggles to be happy. This book at first takes place in New York where Steffi works at a restaurant and does really good but at the end of the book it takes place in Sleepy Hollow because that is where she moved and it is somewhere in the country. In the book there are many conflicts and the book is self vs. outside world. Steffi moves to Sleepy Hollow and has to watch a dog which is the only reason she went there and now she also lives close to her family. She has a sister named Callie and she fought cancer a few years before the book was made, Callie has a tumor in her brain and is only given a certain amount of time to live and she wants to

The book is written as a series of letters, emails, and messages between two best friends who live in Dublin, England. Rosie and Alex.They are destined for each other but everyone else seems to know it but them. They have a very strong friendship and nothing gets romantic until they turn 17. Since Alex and his family are going to be moving to boston. Rosie decides to apply to colleges here in the U.S. She gets into Boston University and now she'll be able to spend every minute with Alex. Until something completely unexpected turns her life around. Which costs her to stay in england and away from Alex. As time went on Alex grew a love life with someone from his teen years and an old fling of rosie's makes his way back into her life. Since

When Teddy was younger, Mia would play her cello to help him fall asleep and read to him a chapter of Harry Potter. Lastly, Mia was kind when she was trying to Adam and Kim to become friends because, she cared about both of them. When evaluating Mia, the reader can also produce questions about events that happen in If I

If I Stay is a fiction book, written by Gayle Forman. The title says it all about the theme, the theme of If I Stay is Choice. If I Stay is about Mia, Mia’s family has just gotten into a car crash, and again the title says it all, Mia has to decide if she wants to say or go. While Mia is in a coma, her grandparents, friends, parents, and finally her boyfriend try to convince Mia to stay. An important passage in If I Stay is "It's the hardest thing I will ever have to do. I summon all the love I have ever felt, I summon all the strength that Gran and Gramps and Kim and the nurses and Willow have given me. I summon all the breath that Mom, and Dad, and Teddy would fill me with if they could. I summon all my own strength, focus it like a laser