Would you choose to stay if your whole family died? if you had the choice to stay or leave? ‘If i stay’ was about a life or death decision. Mia has to choose between life and death after her family dies in a car accident. She has an out of body experience while she is in coma. She has flashbacks about her family as she is walking around in the hospital. Her family is all there to support her. After the book came out, they made a movie based on it. The book and movie were both good, but some parts were better in each. I liked the book and movie the same because they both explained things in different way and both the ways worked. The book was better with the Mia’s relationships between Gran and Teddy. I will give three parts in the book that
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In the movie Gramps talks to Mia while she is in the coma before he leaves, he looks right at Mia’s spirit as if he can see her sitting there. In the book, “Gramps doesn 't leave me. He slumps back into the chair. It’s quiet, now you can almost hear other people 's dreams.” (181) The movie shows that Gramps can feel her there, but in the book you don 't get to see that connection between them. The second reason, the movie is better than the book is in the movie, it shows a bright light when she starts to give up. With this you can see that she is getting ready to leave. In the book, “I’ve been sitting all along, too tired to move. I wish I could sleep.” (144) It’s hard to tell that she is giving up. In the movie you can’t miss it. The third reason, that the movie is better than the book is in the movie Adam sings a song he wrote about Mia. This song brings memories back to her and the next thing she knows she is back in her body. In the book, “and suddenly I just need to hold his hand more than anything in this world. Not just to be held by it, but to hold it back.” (234) In the movie, it brought back memories which makes it have more meaning. It made Mia see her family and freinds. I like the movie and book the same there are good parts in
In the movie Gramps talks to Mia while she is in the coma before he leaves, he looks right at Mia’s spirit as if he can see her sitting there. In the book, “Gramps doesn 't leave me. He slumps back into the chair. It’s quiet, now you can almost hear other people 's dreams.” (181) The movie shows that Gramps can feel her there, but in the book you don 't get to see that connection between them. The second reason, the movie is better than the book is in the movie, it shows a bright light when she starts to give up. With this you can see that she is getting ready to leave. In the book, “I’ve been sitting all along, too tired to move. I wish I could sleep.” (144) It’s hard to tell that she is giving up. In the movie you can’t miss it. The third reason, that the movie is better than the book is in the movie Adam sings a song he wrote about Mia. This song brings memories back to her and the next thing she knows she is back in her body. In the book, “and suddenly I just need to hold his hand more than anything in this world. Not just to be held by it, but to hold it back.” (234) In the movie, it brought back memories which makes it have more meaning. It made Mia see her family and freinds. I like the movie and book the same there are good parts in