Standard 1If I stay is a novel so amazing and so realistic anyone could relate to it. In the beginning of the book everything is straight forward and very detailed without leaving a single detail out. It talks about how school is cancelled and the author describes every little thing in deep meaning describing the scene so the reader can have perfect imagery of the reading. However when they get in the car to go visit Henry and Willow, old friends of Mia's parents and start driving off, everything is described and detailed very good but all of a sudden it goes directly from driving on a car peacefully and happy to a horrible car accident. In the text it states "happy to be in a warm car with my sonata and my family. I close my eyes....You wouldn't expect the radio to work afterwards. But it does. The car is eviscerated."(Gayle Foreman; pg.15). At this point of the reading the author makes the reader infer what has happened and give the reader their own judgment or imagery on it. In chunk 1 we can see that the author is always using past memories and thoughts to compare and back up what he is saying in the present but why doesn't the author not pay attention more to the future?
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Standard 2Standard 2 ask for the student to determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text , including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text. In the next paragraph I am going to show mastery of this skill using the book If I stay.
A theme I learned in If I stay is opposites attract. In the book Mia feels as if she is dark, quite and, studious but Mia's boyfriend Adam is cool and confident. The author brings up an interesting point when she writes "It turned out that coming from such far corners of the social universe had its downside"(Forman,pg.54) and "I had just gotten use to being the odd couple at school-people called us groovy and the geek(Forman,pg91). Here readers can understand that even though Mia and Adam had difficulties in their relationship because of their differences they still develop a connection for each other. A central idea in If I stay is Love will last through anything. Mia and Adam go through troubles but still find away to fall in love with each other. The theme opposites attract builds on our central idea that love will last through anything, this is because their opposites and they attract it makes their love for each other stronger which helps them go through the hard times they encounter in the book. Mia states "for once I'd make as much of an effort to understand his world as he did mine"(Forman,pg94).In this statement she is saying that Adam has made an effort to understand her world even with their differences but she has not done the same for him creating a problem in the relationship she would have to overcome. What might happen if Mia choices to stay instead of leave? What is the significance of the author Making Adam such a key part of the story? |
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