“If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam’s circle.” If I Stay, by Gayle Forman is based around a seventeen year old girl, Mia Hall, who one day is critically injured in an accident that took the lives of her parents and younger brother. After the car crash Mia experiences an out-of-body experience that enables her to observe what is happening around her, because of this she is faced with a pivotal decision of whether she should live or die. Both of which are consequential and end up hurting someone she loves.
This text has a great writing format that is grippingly interesting. This is because the scene of great importance and impact is in the very first chapter, whereas in many other stories it is at the end. Conventional stories are said to follow a three act structure, the idea which establishing the main character, their relationships and the world they live in, the rising action also known as the confrontation, and finally the resolution or the climax. "The car is eviscerated. The impact of a four-ton pickup truck going sixty miles an hour plowing straight into the passenger side had the force of an atom bomb." I liked how this happened because very quickly I became emotionally involved in the story and alongside the main character and her situation. As the Guardian Times quoted "If a book makes you cry, it is a good book." The entire story
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As well as exploring serious themes that teenagers can relate to such as being confronted with consequential choices about life and love that can determine their lives, even more so than in adults. I was curious on what the authors actual purpose was so I found online an interview with Forman explaining why she wrote this