My group is reading If I Stay by Gayle Forman. The novel starts off giving a lot of background about the main character Mia, and her family. It is a snowy day and Mia, her brother, and her father get the day off from school as her father is a teacher. Their mother then decides to take the day off with them as well. The reader learns that the family has always been into music. The family then decides to take a trip to visit the family’s friends, Henry and Willow. Suddenly on their way, a four-ton truck hits them going sixty miles per hour. The next paragraph starts off with Mia, in her mind, asking herself if she is dead. Mia is then seeming to have an out-of-body perspective of the accident unraveling right in front of her, even seeing herself lying on the side of the road. So far the novel has been somewhat shocking, suddenly turning into a tragic accident when the family was only out for a drive to visit friends. However, the author uses a lot of detail explaining the accident as well as having one of the character’s explain what they are seeing which makes to novel hard to put down at times.
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