Book Review: Me Before You By Jojo Moyes

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Me Before You by Jojo Moyes is a book about love, life and learning to live your life to the fullest and leaves you with many life lessons. Reading this book, will leave you thinking about your life and to always aim to follow your dreams and to never settle for being ordinary. The characters are different, honest and teach you many life lessons. Being Thankful for what you have and appreciate the little things and always have compassion with others. The book relates to human development in many ways like discovering yourself finding what works for yourself and what doesn’t. Also this book talks about health not only physical health but mental health and how they are both very important. It also relates to time defining your values and setting …show more content…
Louisa suddenly loses her job at a café and has to look for a new one. Her only option left is taking care of a quadriplegic man in the rich side of town she has no option but to take the job. To her surprise she meets this egocentric moody man who is wheelchair bound. He expects her to act the same way everyone else does but she doesn’t she is outgoing and doesn’t treat him different at all they both fall In love. She then realizes he plans to take his life in a hospital in another country in 6 months’ time. She is left heartbroken at the news and refuses to accept it. She takes it upon herself to teach him the way she looks at life and the wonderful things life has to offer. She is an outgoing loving person she puts everyone above herself and Will saw that, he also thought her that she should do what makes her happy and to care more about her happiness above everyone else’s. the book title “Me Before You” refers to who they were before they met each other. Will was always mad and never saw the point in life after his accident but when he met Louisa she changed the way the way he looked at life even though he was wheelchair bound, she …show more content…
Will learned to appreciate the little things in life he realized that the little things are huge like being able to run and walk, we don’t realize how important something is until we lose it or a life changing moment happens. Also to follow your dreams and to not let anything stop you, when Louisa met Will she had settled for everything she had a simple job and a boyfriend and stayed supporting her family but Will pushed her to live every moment and to find new dreams and goals to enjoy and become more active much like the way Will was before the accident. Louisa is the most selfless, and caring person always putting everyone else above herself she throughout the book shows Will how to be compassionate and caring towards others. This book inspired me to be a better person and after reading it left me with a nice message about life, love, and to follow your goals and dreams putting your happiness above everyone else’s and to live the life that you want. This book relates to Human Development in discovering yourself, Louisa thought she knew herself pretty well and was settled for the life she had, but after she met Will she learned that she needed to find herself and figure out what she really wanted to do out of life and make the most out of it. Also this book relates to human development in time, after Will died she set a new goal for herself, later she realized she wanted to travel around

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