The Last Miranda Analysis

Throughout the novel, Miranda changes, she started off in the book by being hopeful, saying nothing awful is going to happen to her.Miranda had a very Optimistic attitude in the beginning of the novel, confident that everything is going to return to normal and, having no doubt that this is just a short term event and that she and her family will be safe and sound, then she slowly became a quitter by telling her family that they are not going to survive by the cause of the natural disaster that is happening, being scared of dying.She gives up easy on herself because she thinks that there is no hope left in their survival. For example, she says "you really think people are going to panic? I asked.Afraid here, it just seems like an excuse …show more content…
I'm stuck with a mother who doesn't even love me." As a result, Miranda thinks her life is terrible as a result of all of the catastrophic circumstance that is happening and she feels she may not make it alive. Also, she feels that her mother refused to love her because she thinks that she is being critical of her and not her brothers. Then she knows that the world is ending and she feels that she never appreciated her life."Do people ever realize how precious life is? I never did before.There was always a future.Maybe because I don't know anymore if there is a future, I'm grateful for the good things that happen to me this year." Now that the world is ending Miranda never realize how thankful she was for all the memories she had in the past, but now she feels that there is no future due to all the horror that is happening. At the end of the book she completely falls apart, she says "we're out of the water and the temperature is below zero there's no way we are going to get more food. We're dying increments, Matt you know that. We all know that" As a result, Miranda is telling her brother, Matt that there is no way they're going to make alive and everyone knows that because their life necessities are running