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If I Stay By Gayle Foreman
“If i stay” by Gayle Foreman is about a seventeen year old girl named Mia Hall who had everything, a perfect relationship, a loving family and best friend, and a future of becoming a professional cellist with a goal of attending Julliard. One snowy day, when school is out, her family decides to go on a roadtrip to visit friends and there is a tragic accident. That day Mia lost everything, her parents, her brother and almost her own life. From that moment on Mia’s spirit, trapped between life and death, lives amongst the ones she loves the most and she has to decide whether to stay or go. The movie and the book both show this but in different ways, the book has much more detail and more character description, where the movie felt more rushed and kept out a lot of detail that may have been needed.

In the book, the aftermath of the crash left the car completely demolished, the only thing left intact was the radio that …show more content…
in the book, one of Adam’s biggest issues is how he doesn’t want to write Mia a song. For Adam being inspired to write a song for her would come from being angry with her or losing her somehow. He hopes she wouldn’t do anything to make him so upset that he’d want to write a song about her. When Adam is at Mia’s bedside in the hospital while she lies in a coma he pleads with her to not have to write that song. “Over and over he is saying: please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. please. Finally, he stops and looks at my face. “Please Mia,” he implores “Don’t make me write a song.” (p.198) In the movie it doesn’t show this scene of him begging her to stay, at the end of the movie he sits in her hospital room with her, reads her an acceptance letter from Julliard, grabs his guitar, and begins singing her a song that he wrote for her. It is very sweet but does not portray the same desperation Adam had for Mia to live the way the book did with his
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