Analyzing Gayle Forman's 'If I Stay'

And it is the individual who will choose the best possible outcome of all possible outcomes for her life. For God wills it so.

There are abundant of forces that encourage or inhibit a movement. In human society, these circumstances happened consistently. As the world grow more flourish, the competitions between individuals grow prosper as well. In turn, people’s ambition to have improvements and to prove their worthiness enhanced. However, there are people decided to coward and escape from the reality whereas there are people embraced the trouble and move forward. The poem “ The Leaving” by Brigit pegeen Kelly reveals an optimistic girl that determined to prove her ability, and to against her father’s discouraging comment. Owing to her father’s thought of being too weak to accomplish

People read countless stories that have a variety of themes in them. When people read “Angela's Ashes” by Frank McCourt, and “The Street” by Ann Petry, they can probably sense that there is something similar among the two stories', and that's because they share a common theme. The theme is how people can persevere through problems that they encounter. The reader will discover this similar theme of persevering through problems with the way the authors utilize the character of characters feelings and personality, the way setting creates a backdrop that establishes the tone of the story, and events that cause conflict to the character.

The theme of the story is under some circumstances people can be blind to the truth. Character Edie determines the style of the story by talking about the circumstances of her life as a fifteen year old girl and as an older woman. She retells the stories of those that she has known, and the man that she believed she loved deeply. Sometimes the things we want to happen may not be the things that life has for us. We need to be open to all the opportunities in life that are different from what we believe.

Ludacris does a remarkable job of portraying his message about the struggles that some adolescents are faced with. “Runaway Love”, by Ludacris, featuring Mary J. Blige (2007), represents the theme of struggle through hip-hop and rap music. It is about little girls who are “stuck up in the world on their own.” They have to take care of themselves because the people they are around do not care about them. They range from nine to eleven years in age, and their goal in life, at such a young age, is to run away from home. Ludacris is trying to get the listener to realize the struggles that even children have to face because adults are not the only ones who have problems, like most people believe. He is very successful in

Therefore, her fate determines her life in which she has limited of choices to choose for her

In this story, Carolina and Savvie are sisters that can't be apart from each other. “I will Follow you” by Roxane Gay follows a story about these two girls that have lived a very difficult life and all they have is each other, they keep thinking back and forth about their very traumatic past as little as ten and eleven years old. Savvie and Carolina were kidnapped and molested, after six weeks of them being kidnapped by this perpetrator, they try to maintain a normal life but they keep getting flashbacks. When the perpetrator (Mr.Peter) returns to their lives he sends a letter from prison to the girls and asks them for forgiveness. These girls are put to the hardest test, will they let Mr.Peter still take advantage of them after they are

To begin, important theme that runs through the novel is the idea strong female characters like Taylor and Lou Ann. Furthermore, Taylor does not care about a man in her life and tries her best to do everything in her

She may accept this at first but as the night progresses she realises this is not what she truly

In this paper there were many points to prove that tally decided her own fate. One of the many sacrifices was her choice to go to The Smoke, a nother choice she made was when she escapes The Smoke. With these evidence Tally has shaped her own fate, other’s help her on the journey but she decides what to do. This can be translated into the real world when you decide something by yourself but it the meantime it is sacrificing something else. Tally shapes others fate while deciding her own.

Boys and girls, husbands and wives, grown ups and kids sometimes struggle to find themselves. Some will face their problems while others will ignore them and walk away. In the short story “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” by Flanenry O’Conner, a main character struggles trying to find himself and his redemtion in society. O’Conner developes three characters, a woman, her daughter, and a man, Shiftlet. The three characters are standing outside the woman’s house. Shiftlet is watching the automobile while the woman is trying to marry off her daughter. They finally come to a compromise and Shiftlet is given the option to stay with her and make the write decision or leave her and make the wrong. He choses the wrong decision and abandons her. The reader is not given what happens to Shiftlet, and is left wondering how he ends up. An important theme of the story that O’Conner developes focuses in on the idea of redemption and that humans have the option to save themselves. The author claims you are always given the option to choose good or bad, resulting in concequenses. In Flannery O’Conner’s story “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”, she developes biblical allusions and symbolism to make her claim of redemption and you can save yourself.

The second theme shown throughout the novel is the power and strength of female community. When Lily escapes to the Boatwright house she meets the three strong and independent Boatwright sisters. It is there where Lily grows from a scared little girl to not only a stronger and more independent young lady but a more considerate and accepting human being, she grows into a better person. And it was Rosaleen’s strength to stand up to the racist men that gave Lily the strength to runaway from T. Ray and escape Sylvan. As she grows and learns the truth about her mother she accepts her flaws and as she matures and realizes why T. Ray is the way he is, because he is so hurt from Lily’s mother leaving him she accepts his flaws as well and knows that he really does love her. It is the strength of these women that gave Lily the strength and courage to grow and accept.

Mia: Caring: They show empathy, compassion and respect towards the needs and feelings of others. They have a personal commitment to service and act to make a difference in the lives of others and to the environment. Mia the main protagonist of this novel is a caring character this can be conveyed through the following quote, “Teddy is never going to graduate from T-ball to baseball. He’s never going to grow a moustache. Never going to get into fist fights or shoot a deer or fall in love.

When she is faced with the

What if the world that one knows comes to an end? What if one day one wakes up and everything one once knew suddenly changes? “What and if two words as nonthreatening as words come But put them together side-by-side and they have the power to haunt you for the rest of your life: ‘What if?'...”(Friedman, Letters To Juliette 2006). “What” and “if” are two words that haunt Mia as she has an out-of-body experience after a terrible car accident. Published in 2009, “If I Stay” is a young adult novel written by Gayle Forman. The story follows as the 17-year-old music talented, Mia Hall experience a car accident that killed her whole family. In a coma, Mia has decision to make that would determine her fate. She has to choose whether she fights for