In the novel If I Stay by Gayle Forman, the main character Mia, and her family get in a fatal car accident that results in only herself living. Throughout the novel Mia has out-of-body experiences seeing herself in a coma at the hospital while all of her family’s close friends, her grandparents, and her devoted boyfriend as well as his friends come to visit her. The story also tells of many flashbacks giving the reader the idea of how close her family was to the most important people in her life as well as themselves as a family. Mia has to decision to choose to live or to die and be with her loving parents and her younger brother who she adores. Although I feel this would be the hardest decision to ever make, I think I would choose to live. Not being able to be with my family would be very difficult however, at one point in the book, Mia’s best friend Kim is talking to Mia’s unconscious body saying “ There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But we’re all your family…you’ll still have a family.” Leaving your close family behind would be very difficult in the situation that Mia is in however she also has very close loved ones to live for as well as the rest of her life even if it will never be the same again.
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