If I Stay Character Analysis

For instance, in the book Joppy knew Albright; Albright knew Todd Carter; Todd Carter knew Richard McGee as well as Matthew Terrell whereas in the movie every character denied knowing each other except Albright and Joppy. Another noticeable difference is that in the book Frank Green, Daphne’s brother ends up murdered and in the movie he lives and they both end up moving. The third noticeable difference is a character name change from the book to the movie; Matthew Teran in the book is Matthew Terrell in the movie and he ends up being murdered in the book whereas at the end of the movie he’s running for mayor. A fourth noticeable difference is the pier scene. In the book Albright and Easy meet at the Santa Monica pier and in the movie it is the Malibu pier. And the last most noticeable difference between the book and the movie is that Mouse knows Daphne Monet or shall we call her by her real name Ruby Hanks; however, in the movie the audience never finds that out. In the movie the only true thing you get to know about Daphne is that she is both black and white. Therefore, due to the many differences between the book and the movie it is confusing to the audience since it is almost like dealing with two different stories because of the plot inconsistencies.

Have you ever heard of the hood? Well the hood is where gangbangers, drug dealers, and homeless people who have nowhere else to go besides the abandoned apartments and buildings. In the book If I Grow Up by Todd Strasser, Deshawn the main character lives in the hood with his family and lives the life in the projects. Deshawn doesn’t want to be a gangbanger but, his sister, niece and nephew, and his gramma. So he joins the gang to make some money for his family. Deshawn has a choice because, getting a job anywhere, taking a fresh start on life instead of gangbanging, or go to school and have an education.

For example, in the story I thought the H-G men were just a group of individuals in the community but in the 2081 they were like the SWAT or the military. I think the the producers made this difference because when you're watching a movie you expect lots of exciting action which happened in this 2081 scene. Overall the movie was more action based which was different form the book. The book and the movie were also very different when Harrison acted like a hero and a villain combined in the movie but in the book he doesn't act like either of these. Harrison also threatened to blow up a bomb in the movie but he didn't do that in the book. The reason they changed these examples from the book was to give more excitement, and entertainment for the

For instance, the book talks about how the greasers felt and how their feelings were, then in the movie, it didnt talk about it but it showed it. The way that they showed it was not as good as it was written. When reading we don't fall in love with the characters' appearance. We fall in love with their words, their thoughts, and their hearts. We fall in love with their soul. In movies we focus more on appearance and what's going on in the background, which then gets people distracted from what the character is feeling and their thoughts. On the other hand, you can see the actions of the characters in the movie, which might help you process the way they act, however with the book the author can use what he thinks and try to give people a general idea of everything. For an example in the book it talks about how Randy

Choosing whether to live or die is a big decision for one seventeen-year-old girl to make. In the novel If I Stay by Gayle Forman, Mia Hall and her family get in a big car crash. Her brother Teddy, and her parents Denny and Kat Hall die in the car crash. She gets taken to a hospital in Portland and as she's in the hospital she goes back and refers to good and bad times in her life. In the end, these reflections on her past make her realize she has to make a choice whether to live or to die. Her love for the cello, Adam, and best friend Kim help her make the decision clearly. Mia starts out as a shy, independent girl, then leads on to be very guarded, and by the end she blooms into a strong young woman. By the end of the book she perceives that dying is easy and

“Gran pulls the chair up next to my bed and starts combing through my hair with her fingers…you know, I went outside for a walk today and you’ll never guess what I saw. A crossbill. In Portland in February. Now, that’s unusual. I think it’s Glo.”(Page 177) Mia’s grandmother believes in angels and ghost, so for her it’s just a normal conversation. Mia’s best friend Kim their friendship meant more to Mia than anything. It is better shown in the book for detail, but when you watch it in the movie you have a better idea of the emotion and the feelings that Kim has towards Mia. “I sat down in a chair beside her. I feel so natural the way that Kim is talking to me like she always does.” (Page 67) I think that the book has its ways of making you feel like you are watching this from a window. Another example of detail between characters is

If I Stay, directed by R.J. Cutler and based off the novel by Gayle Forman, is a romantic drama focusing on the past life events of Mia Hall as she hangs on to her own life after being in a nearly fatal car accident. Mia Hall, played by Chloe Grace Moretz, is talented cellist, high school senior, and girlfriend to Adam, played by Jamie Blackley, the lead singer of the town’s popular band. Mia is impatiently awaiting to receive a letter from Julliard on a snow day, when her family decides to take a drive to celebrate the snow day by driving to her grandparents’ house. During their drive, the family’s car collides with a truck on the snowy roads. Mia awakes to find herself outside her body at the scene of the tragic accident. After she follows

Losing a loved one is not easy. Imagine losing your whole family when it’s least expected. In class we read the book If I Stay. This book is about a girl named Mia. She had a great life, great friends and family, a loving boyfriend and an acceptance to her dream college; Juilliard. Mia and her family were on their way to their grandparents house when out of nowhere, they got struck head on by another car. This left Mia’s family dead and her life changed forever. We see her life through flashbacks, as she tries to figure out whether she should hold on longer, or let herself go. There are a lot of scenes in the book that are not in the movie, or vise versa. I found myself to enjoy the movie better than the book because it was easier to understand

There were differences in the movie and the book, the book told the whole story the movie got to the point a lot faster than the

On the book the author takes a couple of paragraphs to introduce who is the character, taking time to describe the background, story and physically describing the character, while in the movie, throughout the story the viewer gets the understand of the story of each character and the movie being a visual tool, within the first scene that a character is presented, the viewer already knows how he is physically. For example, Lisbeth Slander, in the book it is much more detailed her characteristics as in “…, but she dyed her hair raven black. She looked as though she had just emerged from a week-long orgy with a gang of hard rockers” (page 38) or when Larsoon describe her lack of emotions. Lisbeth Salander in the book is much more mysterious than in the movie, and the author in different chapters of the book, gives a little more of information about who is Lisbeth. I think that in the book, Larsoon explored much more of the character, and while in the movie I felt a more aggressive and vindictive Lisbeth, in the book I interpreted a strong and smart woman, that acted the way she did more because of precaution to do not get hurt.

In the book Somebody Please Tell Me Who I Am the theme is about “Promises are risky.” Ben is struggling with family issues and volunteers to go to war but during the war he steps on a landmine and gets brain damage, he forgets everyone and everything and has to relearn everything. While ben is struggling with his brain damage injury his compassion, bravery and kindness help him recover quicker from his injury.

If I Stay a book written by a young –adult fiction author from America name Gayle Forman, If I Stay was Gayle’s most successful book that topped the charts in New York Times best seller list. The novel is based on a seventeen-year old girl name Mia a serious cellist and classical music lover, which gets seriously injured by an accident that took both of her parents leaving her and her brother (teddy). As Mia’s body is unconscious she takes an experience outside her body that lets her experience everything that happens around her and reflect on herself .Aswell as choosing whether or not she’s should fight for her life or just let go.

“If I Stay” is a story about a tragic car crash. Mia is a young girl in high school, one night it snowed so school was canceled the next day. During the snow day Mia and her family decide to go on a family drive to visit family, and they wreck. Mia turned out to be the only survivor, her mom, dad, and little brother Teddy did not make it. Mia is in a very bad condition and shes in a coma. She has many visitors such as her boyfriend Adam, best friend Kim, and her grandparents. During

Furthermore, another major theme in If I Stay is growing up. Part of the story’s conflict is not only the choices Mia must make for her future, but the fact that Mia must think about her future so much sooner than she realized. On page 172, Mia says, “Adam and I have never been the kind of couple to talk about the future, about where our relationship was going, but with things suddenly so unclear, we avoided talking about anything that was happening more than a few weeks away, and this made our conversations as stilted and awkward as they’d been in those early weeks together before we’d found our groove.” (Forman 172) After her family’s death, she stops slowly pondering whether she should go to Juilliard, or stay with Adam, or move across the

“If I Stay” shows the effects of the gruesome accident when Mia decides if she wants to live or