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If I Stay Book Report
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Have you ever felt like ending your life? Wanting to give up on everything? In this book if i stay, by Gayle Forman writes a story about Mia Hall, seventeen year old girl who has an amazing life with being a future cellist later in her life. Mia’s happy life all changes when her family decides to go see a family friend, Willow during the snow day. Mia and her family were in a car accident that had lead her parents, Kathleen Hall and Dennis Hall to their death. Teddy was left in critical conditions and Mia in a severe coma, and Mia’s ghost body is off wandering around physically seeing everything that was going on but her body was caught up with what she was doing. When she was in the hospital Mia’s spirit was allowed to roam anywhere and see what’s going on around her. Mia has flashbacks with all the people she loves, Dennis and Kathleen Hall old punk rock parents, Theodore Hall ( Teddy ) little brother who loves rock music, Gramps and Grams Hall who loves Mia more than anything, Adam Widle a loving rock star boyfriend, and Kim Schein a super best friend. In both movie …show more content…
Mia’s grandparents has always supported Mia. Mia’s grandmother “Grams” had suggested Mia to apply to Juilliard. Juilliard is located in New York and is the #1 place to go if you love to play and instrument as much as Mia did. When Mia had gotten accept to an audition, Mia’s Grams was going to take her but her Gramps insisted he would. Grams and Gramps always encouraged Mia to fulfill her dreams no matter what. During the moments to saying goodbye to Mia her Gramps says “”If you want to go. Everyone wants you to stay. I want you to stay more than anything in my life.’ His voice cracked with emotion. He stops and continues’’But that's what I want and I could see why it might not be what you want. So I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you g. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting’” pg
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