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Life or Death Imagine losing your entire family all at once! Unfortunately, this is what happens to Mia the main character in the book "If I Stay." The book was written by Gayle Forman how gave us a whole perspective of how would it be if suddenly we had to choose between life or dead. Thought the story we get to know what Mia is thinking, what her fears are and what her goals were. The book "If I Stay" can relate to everyone because it talks about family and love. The way we see everything can change under the different circumstances life throws at us. Life can change in a second right in front of us without giving the opportunity to assimilate anything. For Mia's family, everything was just as they wanted things to be. Her Father was a school teacher, her mother worked on traveling agency, her little brother was going to school just like her and everything was just as they wished. Suddenly everything changed, their lives were destroyed in a second. For example after the horrible accident Mia and her family went though she experiences something very strange. She was not in her body but she was not dead, she was badly engorged. There is when she started to analyzed the purpose of his life and how it …show more content…
I think this is something that all seventeen-year-olds start to think about, Mia was no the exception. Mia was a potential cellist and her dream was to go to The Juilliard School, which was one of the best music schools in the country. Her hope of getting into this collage made Mia reconsidered her decision over and over again. Her biggest concern was reflected when she said asked herself "What would be like if I stay? What would it feel to be an orphan?" (Forman 137). She was analyzing the idea of been all by herself without her parents or her brother. Mia also had other reasons to considerate staying, her promising career as a cellist that was one of her greatest passions and also her boyfriend

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