If I Stay

Life or Death Imagine losing your entire family all at once! Unfortunately, this is what happens to Mia the main character in the book "If I Stay." The book was written by Gayle Forman how gave us a whole perspective of how would it be if suddenly we had to choose between life or dead. Thought the story we get to know what Mia is thinking, what her fears are and what her goals were. The book "If I Stay" can relate to everyone because it talks about family and love. The way we see everything can change under the different circumstances life throws at us. Life can change in a second right in front of us without giving the opportunity to assimilate anything. For Mia's family, everything was just as they wanted things to be. Her Father was a school teacher, her mother worked on traveling agency, her little brother was going to school just like her and everything was just as they wished. Suddenly everything changed, their lives were destroyed in a second. For example after the horrible accident Mia and her family went though she experiences something very strange. She was not in her body but she was not dead, she was badly engorged. There is when she started to analyzed the purpose of his life and how it
would be if she died or if she lived. I think that in this part is where the real conflict between staying or leaving started.
Imagine applied and getting accepted to your dream school.
I think this is something that all seventeen-year-olds start to think about, Mia was no the exception. Mia was a potential cellist and her dream was to go to The Juilliard School, which was one of the best music schools in the country. Her hope of getting into this collage made Mia reconsidered her decision over and over again. Her biggest concern was reflected when she said asked herself "What would be like if I stay? What would it feel to be an orphan?" (Forman 137). She was analyzing the idea of been all by herself without her parents or her brother. Mia also had other reasons to considerate staying, her promising career as a cellist that was one of her greatest passions and also her boyfriend
Adam.
Once Mia was in the hospital in the ICU area one nurse told her grandparents that "She's running the show. Maybe she's just biding her time. So you talk to her. You tell her to take all the time she needs but to came on back. You're waiting for her" (Forman 69). The nurse wanted them to talk to Mia and to tell her that she was loved and that she should fight for her life. The nurse also explained that the decision of fighting for her life was only Mia's, the doctors and the machines can only do so much but the real key to everything was her with to live. Understanding this was very hard for Mia's grandparents but they agreed with the nurses and they told Mia to fights for her life, but if she decided to go they would also understand. Telling a loved one that is okay for them not want to live most be very hard but do to the condition Mia was in maybe they thought it was fine to say. After Mia her that she decided that her love ones maybe one day could get over her dead if she goes because living without her parents and Teddy was too much for her to bear with. That was her decisions until Adam her boyfriend got to see her. He was not accepting the idea of losing her that way and he begged her to stay because she still had so many things she could do.
Adam knows that by asking Mia to stay she would face a very challenging recovery, not only mentally but also fiscally. Mia had many broken bones and she was also connected to a ventilator that helped her to breath. In the first chance Adam got to see her he told Mia that if she stays "I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too" (Forman 193). Adam played in a rock band which he was getting famous because of it, so for him giving that up for her it was very meaningful. Once he stops talking to her about if she should stay, he starts playing one song that was played by a cello. Then she discovered that maybe she should give herself a second chance on life.
At the end her love for the cello made her recognize the chance he had she could stay and play the cello. The idea of been accepted to Juilliard's was an incredible chance not many people had. At the same time, everything was going to be had on her because she was by herself, not a mom, not a dad and not Teddy would be able to see any of her achievements. Mia's life changed in a second she lost her entire family at the same time. I don't know if everybody had the strength enough to continue after a tragedy of this magnitude. Mia, after all, wanted to live her fight between deciding whether to live or died had come to an end. Her decision between good and bad got over with her making the decisions to like. Her life was not going to be easy after all, many challenges were going to face her but I think she is strong enough to overtake them.