Book Summary: If I Stay To My Real Life

Throughout this journal, I will be connecting the book If I Stay to my real life. To start, the first way that I will connect the book to real life is the main character Mia. To begin with, the first way I can connect this to Mia is that she feels like an outcast in her family as well as with her boyfriend. The way that Mia is different among her family is because Mia likes classical music while her family and boyfriend are all fans of rock music. One can connect this with a mass amount of kids at our school. Students share stories that they feel that they do not fit in with the rest of the crowd or that they do not participate in the activities as the “normal” students do. The author connects with quite well with kids my age and bring this …show more content…
This a curveball that everyone can face and no one actually knows how to handle such a life changing event. Secondly, the next way that we can connect real life events would be that no one knows what to do. In the book Mia feels lost and she is in the state of deciding the rest of her life. She has decisions that she did not know that she had to make. The reader can connect this with their life because everyone makes multiple decisions every single day. Every decision can change your life for better or for worse but that is their choice to make. Finally, the last reason that we can connect the book to our everyday lives is that everything happens for a reason. The reason in the book might be to make Mia a stronger person and to fight for everything she wants. I can connect this to my life because I believe that everything happens for a reason. I believe that my parents getting a divorce helped me make stronger decisions and that everything is not what it seems. No one knows what is going to happen in their life but one can believe that this happens for the better. Therefore one can conclude that the book can be connected to real life scenarios like they can connect with the main character and sudden life