Mia Hall's If I Stay

Would you want to continue to live if all your family was dead? Is that a decision you would want to make yourself, or would you like someone else to make it for you? In the book if i stay, by Gayle Forman, Mia Hall is a 17-year-old cellist with loving parents, and a younger brother. She lives in Oregon, and spends her time playing her cello, and hanging out with her rocker boyfriend, Adam, and best friend, Kim. Mia is very talented and has the prospect of going to Juilliard in the fall. That is forgotten when a snow day leads to a car accident, where Mia’s mother and father are killed, and her brother, Teddy, is rushed to the hospital in critical care. Mia’s body is also in critical care, but her spirit, which is now outside of her body, is able to experience her world being turned upside down. She is …show more content…
The book and movie both give different feelings , however the book builds more emotional connections between Mia and the other characters, mainly Kim, her Grandfather, and Teddy. In the book Mia’s friend Kim is a huge part of Mia’s life, and Mia’s time in the hospital. In the book you are given this lovely scene of Kim, where she goes down to the small chapel in the hospital, to talk to Mia. In this scene, Mia watches Kim pray for the first time. At the end of her prayer Kim says “Please don’t die. I can understand why you’d want to, but think about this: if you die, there’s going to be one of those cheesy Princess Diana memorials at school, where everyone puts flowers and candles and notes next to your locker...I know you’d hate that kind of thing.” (67-68) The movie leaves this scene out completely. In the movie, we are