If I stay door Gayle Forman

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Boek
Vertaald als
Als ik blijf
Auteur
Gayle Forman
Taal
Engels
Vak
Eerste uitgave
2009
Pagina's
224
Oorspronkelijke taal
Engels

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If I stay door Gayle Forman
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Reader’s journal

Name:

Marion Postma

Date:

February 2015

Title

If I stay

Author

Gayle Forman

Choose genre:

a. Mystery & Sudpence story; b. Adventure story; c.Science fiction; d. Animal tale; e. Fairy tale; f. Historical fiction; g. Family saga; h. Biography; i. Humourous book; j. other Novel/young adult fiction

Explain your choice

My family and I were in a bookstore in Maastricht, and my mother told me I could choose a book I would like to read. So I wandered around and found this book. I had heard from a friend that it is a very nice book, so I decided to read it.

Main characters

Mia: 16 years old girl. Plays cello and wants to go to a conservatorium as study.

Adam: Boyfriend Mia, he plays in a rock band, which gets more and more famous.

Teddy: Little brother Mia.

Kim: Best friend Mia, does not really get along with Adam

Dad Mia: used to play in a band, teacher

Mother Mia

Grandfather Mia

Grandmother Mia

P.T.O.!!!

Setting (Where did the story take place?)

Most of the time in the hospital, or in flashbacks, which are in different places.

Time (When did the events happen?)

In the modern time, about 2011.

Narrator (Who tells the story?)

Mia tells the story from her view.

Plot (Short summary of the story)

On a school-free day, Mia and her family decide to go see their friends. On their way a lorry slips and hits their car. Suddenly Mia sees her mother and father laying on the ground, dead. She walks around and finds her own body. Turns out that she is now a sort of ghost. In the hospital she hears that her mom, dad and Teddy did not survive the accident. She is in a critical state in the hospital. Then she has to decide if she wants to wake up, or if she wants to die. The book is about one night, with all kind of flashbacks of Mia, remembering her family. When she decides she wants to die, despite of everything everyone told her, Adam walks in and plays cello music for her. That moment she sees her life razing past, and then she wakes up.

Opinion

I loved the book, because you can easily empathize in Mia her situation. It was nice to read, and everything was explained clearly.

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