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Life As We Knew It Expository Essay
Sometimes people would wonder how it would feel like to live in Hell. Life As We Knew is a realistic fiction novel that is written by Susan Beth Pfeffer. The book is about a girl named Miranda who is trying to withstand her struggles in her new life. Miranda and her family want to survive the catastrophes from the moon, but food, water, are scarce, and there is severe climate change. So this leads to the idea of the Life As We Knew It. The theme of Life As We Knew It is people should never give up in tough situations because never giving up makes us set goals, optimistic, and rewarded. At the beginning of the book, Miranda and her family set goals because an asteroid

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