If I Stay Or Leave Character Analysis

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Would you rather die with with people who you love, or stay with the people who you like. Throughout the novel I have learned that how difficult decisions could be. In the novel If I Stay Mia is a teenager who goes through a crisis of losing her family due to a car crash. Even though Mia survived she is in critical condition, emotionally and physically. Mia decides if she wants to stay with all her friends or die with her family over the course of the novel.

I have learned that it is difficult to make a decision. I could be difficult to make a decision on two factors I have learned through my novel that the two different categories that Mia has to face that are life and death. When Mia was going to her grandparents house with her family a truck hit her car. She was the only member in her family who survived but near to death injuries. Now she is debating on if
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They have been friends since they were in emimentry school and they were always similar. They were forgiving, kind, and loving to each other as friends. In the novel If I Stay Mia shows why she wants to stay because of Kim. They had many great memories together, like when one day after elementary school, they got into a fist fight in the playground because of the rumors of them at school. Even though after the fight "Kim and I looked at each other and started laughing"(Forman 73). They learned that they were not true and they wanted to be friends again. I have learned that even when friends fight or disagree, they will always be friends. During the plot of the novel Kim shows that she is determined to go see Mia. When Mia was in the ICU Kim went to see her but, he was not allowed in because he was not an immediate family member. So Kim "charged through the door" (Foreman 144). To find Mia even though the plan was not successful, I have also learned that when you have good friends they will do anything for

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