The thing i liked most about this book is that, for the first time, in contrast to books that i have read previously, the writer doesnt make the main character, a girl, mia, seem like she is. Intensely moving, the novel will force readers to take stock of their lives and the people and. Despite many people recommending this one to me, i dont like sad books. While the rest of her immediate family decided what they could do with this free time mia already has other plans.
Find summaries for every chapter, including a if i stay chapter summary chart to help you understand the book. Andrea the bookish babe if youve ever loved someone unconditionally, in spite of their problems, read this book. I honestly have nothing negative to say about this book. The animal just brings something more to the story, adding affection, love, and humor. Gayle forman has half a dozen similarly named books, like i was here, where she went, and just one day. Review with spoilers while i do struggle, sometimes, to get through this book, i will say it is only. If i stay summary from litcharts the creators of sparknotes. As they rush her inside, she learns that her brother is still alive but also in critical condition. T he first story takes place in the nineteenforties. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Seventeen yearold mia has no memory of the accident. Jan 09, 2016 if i stay is a book about one of the biggest decisions mia must make. It had been three years since mia hall dumped her high school sweetheart adam wilde, and he still had no idea why.
Gayle formans bestseller if i stay, shows a situation where mia, the main character, has to make the right decision when her life is literally in her hands. I i stay is the account of mia, a teenage girl on the verge of becoming an adult, recovering and deciding if she will survive a traumatic event in her life. Pdf if i stay by gayle forman read online book download. In oregon, this small amount of snow is enough to cause school closures. She is taken to the roof where a waiting helicopter attempts to medevac her to a larger hospital in. In if i stay our seventeenyearold mia wakes during a snowing morning, her parents and other family are busy celebrating the holiday with chocolate chip pancakes. Mia is debating whether to stay alive without any immediate family, but have her julliard dream continue, or being dead and thinking about how devastated her boyfriend and best friend, kim, would be. If i stay by gayle forman original publishing date. This 41page guide for if i stay by gayle forman includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 17 chapters, as well as several more indepth sections of expertwritten literary analysis. Supersummary, a modern alternative to sparknotes and cliffsnotes, offers highquality study guides for challenging works of literature. If i stay presentation by steele vandenberghe on prezi. This is a stellar thoughtprovoking, contemporary novel that will stick with me for a long time.
Mia, the books main character, is a seventeenyearold high school senior. These books are aimed at young readers as they tell us a story of 17yearold mia hall and the way she deals with the aftermath of a car accident her family got in. Gayle forman is an awardwinning, internationally bestselling author and journalist. Picking up several years after the dramatic conclusion of if i stay, where she went continues the story of adam and mia, from adams point of view. Summaries keroshan pillay may 15, 2019 english summary comment.
Trapped between life and death writer kaleb nation admits that he buys books for their covers thats why he first picked up gayle formans if. The average student has to read dozens of books per year. Read free book excerpt from if i stay by gayle forman, page 1 of 3. Mia and her boyfriend, adam, both love music and collect records. This 37page guide for if i stay by gayle forman includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 17 chapters, as well as several more indepth sections of expertwritten literary analysis. This is not the actual book where she went by gayle forman. She is the author of just one day and just one year, and the companion enovella just one night, as well as the new york times bestsellers if i stay and where she went. Luckily, freebooksummary offers study guides on over top. Mias brother teddy and her father, a middleschool english teacher, also have the day off, so her mother takes the day off of work. If i stay begins with seventeenyearold cellist mia hall waking to a thin layer of snow on her lawn. Kim and i have this theory that almost everything in the world can be divided into two groups. She lives in brooklyn, new york, with her husband and daughters. I really need to know, because for school next year, we need to have a certain amount of chapters in a book, and i dont wanna go out and buy it, if its not the right amount.
Content includes books from bestselling, midlist and debut authors. Mia and her family get to enjoy a snow day at the beginning of if i stay. Mias mom decides to take the day off from her job at. If i stay study guide from litcharts the creators of sparknotes.
These are all crazy thoughts but i love a book that really makes me think about what i would do if i. A horrible car accident that kills almost the entire family instantly. Summary spoiler alert if i stay by gayle forman, is a young adult novel about one teen, mia hall, who struggles between life and death. Mia arrives at the hospital in a critical condition with a collapsed lung. Snow days should be less bloody, but mia doesnt have a choice yet. Gayle formans elegiac heartbreaker if i stay finds teenaged mia on the precipice between death and life, after the rest of h. Because of this, a movie may differ from the novel. If i stay by gayle forman, is a teen celloaddict whose whole family gets wiped out by a car crash in the first scene. Facebook 0 twitter linkedin 0 reddit tumblr 0 likes. No one has time to read them all, but its important to go over them at least briefly. His album, borne from the anguish and pain of their breakup. It is clear that mia loves it and adam is anxious because it is not.
You control everything, there is always a choice to be made. Life lessons throughout the novel if i stay by veronika. After the surgery, she is brought to the intensive. The story follows 17yearold mia hall as she deals with the aftermath of a catastrophic car. She has a promising music career ahead of her, because she has auditioned to the famed juilliard school. If i stay study guide from litcharts the creators of.
If i stay study guide contains a biography of gayle forman, literature. This visual represents the different choices you have, decisions you can make, and paths you can take in life. Free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders. It relates to the novel because the quote i used from the novel to represent this life lesson is.
Buy the paperback book if i stay by gayle forman at indigo. Seventeenyearold mia hall lives in a small town in oregon with her mom kat, dad denny, and eightyearold brother, teddy. Its funny how the book has a little difference on the movie but still, i loved it. It shifts through each chapter between the past and the present and keeps you from putting the book down. The critically acclaimed, bestselling novel from gayle forman, author of where she went, just one day, and just one year. Well, it doesnt say chapter 1, but it has times like 8. She scans the morning paper looking for news about her. I first discovered allie larkin via her 2019 release, swimming for sunlight, and fell in love with her writing style and storytelling and love of dogs. Find books like if i stay from the worlds largest community of readers. Borrow ebooks, audiobooks, and videos from thousands of public libraries worldwide.
This book is a great example of the healing power of a pet. Even if it wasnt she never woke up to write the book so,, 0 0 0. Mia is our celloplaying, recordcollecting, girlfriendinacoma protagonist. I really liked this book because it dealt with a reallife scenario without being overly explicit.
You cried when you read the book, you cried double when you saw the movie, and now youre all cried out and in need of a seriously good followup read and a glass of water. Her mom is a tough as nails, tender as kittens feminist bitch her father used to be in a rock band but is now a teacher. Litcharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in if i stay, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. While the rest of the book wasnt all smooth sailing, it.
Read chapter 2 from the story if i stay by dreamersnation4ever six and three with 478 reads. So if youre interested in exploring these lifeordeath. Home gayle forman if i stay close book content settings more ebooks. If i stay is a young adult novel by gayle forman published in 2009.
The story follows 17yearold mia hall as she deals with the aftermath of a catastrophic car accident involving her family. Read chapter 1 from the story if i stay by dreamersnation4ever six and three with 1,544 reads. It is written as a continuing narrative taking place over a twentyfour hour period. I m not sure which book i loved more i adored the characters in this book from van to alex to louis and especially joe, the german. While the rest of the book wasnt all smooth sailing, it was humorous and enjoyable.
My favorite scene happened in the middle of the book where mia and adam, her longstanding boyfriend, attend a recital. Home subjects request a book search store home subjects request a book search. I wake up this morning to a thin blanket of white covering our front lawn. The book follows in the tradition of classics like its a wonderful life, imagining what the lives of your friends and family would be like after your own life ends. If i stay is proof that the young adult genre is not just for silly stories for teenagers. She has everything she could ever want, a loving family, an adoring boyfriend, an amazing best friend, and an amazing career ahead of her in music. Irenas children prologue warsaw, october 21, 1943 aleja szucha. Jul 22, 2014 how many chapters does if i stay have. Amanda globug and hootie need a book i loved if you stay. If i stay by gayle forman book club discussion questions. The story follows one day in the life of seventeenyearold mia, who has been critically injured in an accident. This study guide consists of approximately 23 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of if i stay.
A site dedicated to book lovers providing a forum to discover and share commentary about the books and authors they enjoy. And thats where the book ends, as mias life is beginning anew. Life changes in an instant for young mia hall after a car accident puts her in a coma. The best study guide to if i stay on the planet, from the creators of sparknotes.
Forman has crafted a heartbreaking tale with solid characters and very real problems. Producers often use a book as a springboard for a movie idea or to earn a specific rating. When the movie finished and the credits starts rolling on the. If i stay series, book 1 if i stay by gayle forman. Key characters theme setting the book that i chose for the. I immediately went to the library and picked up stay. With an overdrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for ataglance information about availability. The novel starts with mias family sharing a pancake breakfast on a snowy oregon morning. If i stay by gayle forman overdrive rakuten overdrive. Soon to be a major motion picture, starring chloe moretz. Trapped between life and death writer kaleb nation admits that he buys books for their covers thats why he first picked up gayle formans if i stay.
But if i stay shows us that accidents dont wait for christmastime. Parents need to know that this is a book for teens about a girl who loses her family in a car accident and is now in a coma. Mia is the only member of her family to survive, and she finds herself in a coma. A special anniversary edition of gayle formans breakout bestseller, if i stay, in a brand new look and with an additional chapter to mias story. Kerr the author of many classic young adult novels including the books of fell has written a poignant trilogy about love and friendship that lasts a lifetime. Description, analysis, and timelines for if i stays. The decision she makes is not laid out until the next book which is much better anyways. Plot summary if i stay is set in a small, contemporary oregon town outside portland and chronicles 17yearold mias struggle with life and death after a horrible automobile accident kills her parents and younger brother, and leaves her, the only survivor, in a coma.
She had been given only minutes to dress, and her fair, bobbed. Giving the sudden cut off of if i stay i can only imagine what viewers of the film are going to think if they have no previous experience of the books themselves. If i stay is a book series written by gayle forman. The characters that are involved in her making her choice are all her family, adam, and kim.
All readers click the x button on this blog to be fair, that was my first response too. The family pile into their rusty buick, planning to go out for a day trip to visit. Get all the key plot points of gayle formans if i stay on one page. The door slammed shut up front, and the black prison car lurched into motion.
I stay near you refers to the inscription in a gold ring, a family heirloom belonging to the wealthy storm family. If i stays important quotes, sortable by theme, character, or chapter. In portland, mia undergoes an operation to treat her extensive injuries. Cameron yells over the phone and i bolt upright to. The book is about a girl mia that likes a boy adam. But one day what should have been just another car ride with her family takes a bad turn when her father crashes the car and mias life, as well as the lives of her family, hang in the balance. Chapter 3 chapter 4 chapter 5 chapter 6 chapter 7 chapter 8 chapter 9 chapter 10. Pdf if i stay by gayle forman read online book download online. These are all crazy thoughts but i love a book that really makes me think about what i would do if i was in that particular situation. If i stay, by gayle forman, is not divided into chapters.
During an outofbody experience, she must decide whether to wake up and live a life far different than she had imagined. It isnt even that my cello is at school or that i could stay home and watch tv or sleep. Aug 17, 2018 in if i stay our seventeenyearold mia wakes during a snowing morning, her parents and other family are busy celebrating the holiday with chocolate chip pancakes. Books with a pet as a central character can be some of my favorite. M the novel starts with mias family sharing a pancake breakfast on a snowy oregon morning. On one snowy morning, school is cancelled, leaving mia and teddy, as well as their father, an english teacher, with the day off. Gayle forman, if i stay people think i like chick flicks, and i always have good excuses for reading books that are apparently, chick flicks. Ever since mias decision to stay but not with him adams career has been on a wonderful trajectory.