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Caleb Becker: Summary And Analysis

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Did you know that teenage drunk driving kills eight teens every single day? Caleb Becker is a seventeen year old boy who had everything. He has tons of friends and a popular girlfriend. One day he made the dreadful mistake of driving drunk after a party. On his way back to his house he hit Maggie Armstrong. This accident turned both of their lives upside down. Caleb was convicted of a hit and run and went to the Department of Corrections juvenile complex for almost a year. Luckily, Maggie survived the accident but her legs took a serious beating. She was in a wheelchair for 4 months and couldn't play tennis anymore. She had been playing since she was nine and as a result lost all of her friends. When reading my book, the author made it easy …show more content…

Caleb has left paradise with Rio, as an attempt to delete the past from his memory. He seems to have the plans and intentions of never coming back to Paradise even though he loves Maggie, but he it doesn't seem like he will stay away long. I definitely think he will come back to Paradise because of Maggie, but what happens when he finally does come back I have no idea. I don't think he ever really wanted to leave but I feel like he thought he had to. I think that if Caleb waits to long before coming back he is going to miss his chance with Maggie and she might move on. He also might come back to Paradise for his family. When he left they were going through a really hard time. His sister was extremely depressed and felt so guilty because of the accident and his mom was so focused on having the perfect family that she got so stressed out she began to abuse prescription drugs. He might come back to just check up on them and then end up staying longer than he expected. Also, I have so many predictions about what is going to happen next in Maggie’s life. I predict that she and Leah are going to become best friends again because right at the end of this book Maggie goes up to Leah and says “Let’s just say our friendship means more to me than holding a grudge or living in the past” (Elkeles 303). To me this shows that everything is okay between them and that they just want to put it all in the past. Also, Leah will come out of her “goth” phase because she doesn’t feel so guilty anymore, which is what I think made her change her appearance so much. Second, I predict that Maggie is not going to go to Spain anymore. The main reason she wanted to go so bad before was to get away from Paradise and all of the people in it, especially those involved in the accident and everyone at school. Now that she has started to get used to her new

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