If I essay Imagine, you are going on a fun trip with your family, but it is interrupted; with a car colliding with yours. You are brought to the hospital, and are in a coma; all of your family has already died. If you wake up, you would be an orphan, but if you die, you will lose everybody else that loves you. If you go, if you stay, it is all up to you. This is what Mia from If I stay was faced with. If I stay is a book by Gayle Forman, and a movie directed by R. J. Cutler. It is about a teenager who is gifted with playing the cello, and who is just trying to get into her dream college, Juilliard. But in the process she is faced with a tremendous decision, that will change her life forever. Mia and her family, which consists of her mother, father, and little brother, Teddy, all face hardships with Mia across the book and movie. Throughout the movie, the director uses a plethora of cinematic techniques; that portray all kinds of emotions, and moods. But instead, in the book, the author uses different writing techniques to replicate the effect that the cinematic effects have on the audience. For instance, Forman’s word choice and Cutler’s camera angle go hand in …show more content…
The director demonstrates this by using a technique called flashback or, an assortment of techniques such as, pan, or dolly tracking. The author on the other hand, displays this by making a memory, and instantly going to that memory. For example, on the first paragraph on page 54, Mia is talking about herself, about what she looks like,“My skin is grey. My eyes are taped shut. I wish someone would take the tape off me” Then she goes straight into talking about her and Adam, “It didn’t start so smoothly with Adam and me.” The author does this quite frequently, all the flashbacks, and memories that she is going through is determining Mia’s final decision on whether or not she will live or die, if it is really worth to stop