When You Reach Me Relationships
“This is hard. Harder than I expected, even with your help. But I have been practicing, and my preparations go well. I am coming to save your friend’s life, and my own.” This is a quote from the first note Miranda receives from the anonymous person in the book When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead. A 12 year old girl named Miranda lives in New York City in the 1970’s. She gets notes from an anonymous person who can predict the future. The notes ask her to cooperate to the directions given in order to save someone’s life. She must choose to follow the mysterious directions or simply ignore them. Miranda has many relationships throughout the story that have misunderstood conflicts that get resolved. She has tons of relationships throughout the
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Annemarie is one of Miranda’s good friends other than Sal. They became close during the school year and constantly hang out. They also start working at the sandwich place nearby during lunch times. Annemarie got mad at Miranda one day when they were working at the sandwich place because Jimmy, the owner, made what seemed like a racist joke about Julia, one of Annemarie’s best friends who is dark skinned. He quoted what Miranda had said, which made Annemarie think she was the racist one. Miranda did not mean for the joke to be racist but Annemarie did not understand. “Jimmy pointed his big finger right at me. ‘Like you call her, Swiss Miss: Hot chocolate.’ ” (page 129) Jimmy clearly took the nickname as a racist joke but really Miranda made up the nickname to imply that Julia is always talking about the watch and chocolate she got from Switzerland. One morning on Christmas Break, Miranda walks to Annemarie’s house and she welcomes her in. They talk about their argument and Annemarie believed Miranda on what the joke was supposed to mean. “So, about what happened at Jimmy’s... ,” I said. ‘You know, I really never meant… what he thought I meant. Not for one second.” Miranda described to Annemarie at her house that day. To summarize, Annemarie is another important relationship in the
Annemarie is one of Miranda’s good friends other than Sal. They became close during the school year and constantly hang out. They also start working at the sandwich place nearby during lunch times. Annemarie got mad at Miranda one day when they were working at the sandwich place because Jimmy, the owner, made what seemed like a racist joke about Julia, one of Annemarie’s best friends who is dark skinned. He quoted what Miranda had said, which made Annemarie think she was the racist one. Miranda did not mean for the joke to be racist but Annemarie did not understand. “Jimmy pointed his big finger right at me. ‘Like you call her, Swiss Miss: Hot chocolate.’ ” (page 129) Jimmy clearly took the nickname as a racist joke but really Miranda made up the nickname to imply that Julia is always talking about the watch and chocolate she got from Switzerland. One morning on Christmas Break, Miranda walks to Annemarie’s house and she welcomes her in. They talk about their argument and Annemarie believed Miranda on what the joke was supposed to mean. “So, about what happened at Jimmy’s... ,” I said. ‘You know, I really never meant… what he thought I meant. Not for one second.” Miranda described to Annemarie at her house that day. To summarize, Annemarie is another important relationship in the