Character Analysis Of Mia's 'Round Character In The Book'

Mia is a round character because she has changed throughout the novel. At the beginning Mia is in present day, but once she gets into the accident she starts to reflect back on her life. Mia first reflects back on family memories, when she was younger she felt like an outcast in her family. Her father often joked that Mia was “accidentally swapped”(23) at birth. Mia began to believe that this joke was a possibility since her family is “all blond and fair”(23), this made Mia think that she was their “negative image”(23) since she had “brown hair and dark eyes”(23). Her father was “outgoing and ironic”(23) and loved to play the drums, but Mia adored classical music. When Mia reflect back on this and other key events in her life she realizes that her family was there and would support her anyway she was. When Mia told her parents that she had decided to become a cellist, both her parents laughed thinking of Mia being so small playing such a large instrument. When her parents saw that Mia was serious “they immediately swallowed their giggles and put on supportive faces”(22) I think that this shows Mia realizing her family supporting her in ways she at first didn’t recognize. Mia reflected back on her first recital at the time she was …show more content…
It wasn’t until later that Mia found out that Kim though the same thing as her and they became friends. From the start everyone grouped them as a unit “because [they] were too alike”(68). Mia and Kim continued to hate each other until after school they got into to a fight, when the teachers separated them they “looked at each other and started laughing”(73) When Kim brings Adam to the hospital Mia wishes she “could hug her. To thank her for always being one step ahead”(102). I think that Mia’s relationship with Kim will continue to grow as she help Mia get through her