If I Stay Turning Point

The novel If I Stay by Gayle Forman is a fascinating story about a female teenager that is living through her senior year. Mia Hall a young, beautiful cello player in her school’s orchestra. She opens her chest of feelings for a boy named Adam in his own rock band, which even though they are completely from two different worlds she still finds some characteristic that draws her attention to him. As a girl that is shy and keeps to herself at times. She opens the door to explore life a little more with Adam. As every novel book shall have a turning point, but this turning point changes Mia’s life forever, and everyone around her. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hall, her brother, and Mia are all in a car driving to go attend one of Adam’s rock concerts. As her …show more content…
Mia can see herself as she stands during the scene in a ghost image. She has no idea what was going on at that time all the emotions and scenery is floating around her head much faster than she can ever keep up. Her boyfriend, Adam has arrived over shocked at what he is witnessing seeing Mia covered with tubes, unresponsive to voice command, and faintly breathing steadily. This is an emotional turn for Adam, how could something so frail and so sweet ever be put through this kind of hurt. He is there asking questions, however is pleading for Mia to speak to him. During this moment, Mia is standing in her ghost shadow speaking, but nevertheless he cannot hear her strong devotion of words clashing out to him. In the end of this mad roller coaster Adam has to effortlessly watch Mia slowly release into a strong restless sleep forever. Reading the novel If I Stay by Gayle Forman in 2016 I have realized I had a person of influence during my compressed time in life, it showed me personally what the other side of what my friend was feeling of not having the control to speak to