Character Analysis: Roo's Life

Pg.1-50: The main character, Ruth Anne McCabe, better known as Roo is a senior in high school and is ready to go to her dream college, Yale University. Roo has a younger sister named Tilly, she is a freshman in highschool and one day when she was at a museum doing research for a school project texted Roo to pick her up from the museum minutes before they were about to close. Roo was running a little late and Tilly was really impatient so she kept sending her lots of text messages telling her to pick her to hurry up. Roo picks up her phone to respond only little did she know how much texting while driving can do to you in such a short time. She responded back to Tilly for the last time and in just a few seconds her whole life changed. Texting while she was driving caused her to have a car accident and next thing she knew she was in the hospital, hurt and confused. When Roo’s mother and Tilly arive at the hospital she has a big sister and is put to sleep and when she wakes up she tries to talk to her mother and sister, but she can’t. Roo is in coma and paralyzed. Tilly and her mother could have never expected such awful news all of a sudden and can’t think of anything else but Roo. Tilly was very close with her sister and affected her a lot. One day when Tilly and Newton, Roo’s boyfriend, were at the hospital checking on Roo, Newton was mentioning how all of this could have been a Tilly’s fault she knew it was but wouldn’t admit it. Newton kept insisting and Tilly lost it. She was ready to release all the anger inside of her she had held in for such a long time and punched Newton right in the face. Pg.51-100: Although the doctors said Roo was in coma she could perfectly see and hear everything around her, but when she tried to talk nothing came out of her mouth. Roo missed her sister, mom, friends, boyfriend, and mostly her dad who had passed away just a few months ago. When Roo was alone in the hospital room she would remember the great times she had with her dad, the artsy pictures she took, the differences between her and Tilly, and the romantic dates she had with her boyfriend at the beach. A couple days after Tilly had punched Newton she apologized at school, but Tilly was still really upset about everything that her sister is going through. Meanwhile one day when Roo was alone at the hospital she started wondering how the car accident happened, then she remembered why she was driving in the first place. It didn’t …show more content…
One time when they were in Roo’s room they started to hold hands, they didn’t think Roo could see them, but she clearly saw it all. Of course Roo was a little jealous and hurt that her sister was with her boyfriend. Days past, Roo couldn’t stop thinking of what she saw and Tilly was forced to get dressed for a Dance at the same beach Newton and Roo would go to on late summer nights. That was organized to raise money for Roo’s treatment. At the dance Tilly spotted Newton, he was running away and Tilly was afraid he was going to do something bad or get hurt so she went after him. As she was running she fell into the water and nearly drowned. She felt someone pick her up, it was Newton saving Tilly. They were both really close to each other and got closer, eventually they kissed for the first time although Newton and Tilly hadn’t officially broken up. Tilly didn’t start to realize the awful mistake until she left the dance, she felt really bad for4 what she had done and wanted some time to be alone so she went around the town wandering late at night. When she was walking she was Martha’s house, Martha had been the only one to see Roo when she had her accident. Tilly spent a long time with Martha telling her everything that had happened. Soon it became dark and late, it was time for Tilly to go