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Where She Went by: Gayle Forman

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       This is a sequel to the book If I stay. Where She Went by Gayle Forman is a book about a girl named Mia Hall and her ex-boyfriend Adam Wilde. This book focuses on mostly Adam's life and how he has been for the 3 years later since Mia and him broke up. Mia before Adam and her broke up was in a tragic accident that caused her parents and brother to die, leaving her with her grandparents to live with. Adam has been there for Mia during the whole accident and most of after, until Mia kept ignoring him and finally just decided to break up with him. After the break up Adam was depressed, he was madly in love with Mia and he doesn't understand why she broke up with him. Now, three years later he finds himself in New York, where Mia turns out to be as well. They find each other and get to talking about both the past and how they are today. They spend time together, but the question is will they fall in love again? Will Mia want Adam back?

        Where She Went, I think is mainly about love. Love seems to be the main universal theme that this book focuses on. Love is usually the most popular theme for writing, but I think the kind of love that this book is trying to show is amazing. Love in this book shows what it actually is and how it doesn't always turn out good. In the book, Adam finds himself three years later, dating a beautiful girl thats extremely famous, but still he sees that he is still in love with Mia. Adam can't really stop himself from loving her or thinking about her and its been three years since he last saw her. How can one person love someone for that long without being together? The love that this book is showing is truly fascinating and its descriptive what Mia and Adam are feeling.

        Where She Went, I also think has a second theme, which is effects of the past. Effects of the past is sort of like cause and effect. What happened in the past can effect what happens in the future, which I think is a theme in this book. I think this is a theme that is in the book because Mia being in the accident and losing her parents and brother effected a lot of how she is three years later. When Mia broke up with Adam, it caused him to change in many ways because he didn't have her anymore. That big accident caused Mia to break up with Adam, it caused her to graduate early from Julliard, and it made Adam become a big rockstar, those are all effects of what happened in their past. As you can see, effects of the past is a very possible theme for this book because it caused a lot of things to change the way Mia and Adam are to each other, now it has made them think that they don't really know anything about each other anymore, but there can also still be a little bit of hope that they can actually grow to love each other again. Will the past cause them to fall in love again as an effect?

 

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1st Quarter Reflection Blog

        During 1st quarter, I learned about the world that we live in. I would have never believed that the world has so many problems, until I actually read about them. I would have never known about the Syrian Refugees, the war with ISIS, and I would have never known about gun laws. I learned about all these topics and more during the 1st quarter and I actually liked learning about all of them.

        I'm on my 4th book for the 40 book challenge. I enjoy the 40 book challenge because it a goal, that I hope to succeed in. The 40 book challenge, really helps with the amount of books that people can read to improve their skills, which is really good because it has helped me read more books in different genres that are out of my comfort zone more. I have actually read some sci-fi books, which is really interesting because I rarely read sci-fi and I have read some realistic fiction books as well. The 40 book challenge has really helped me improve my reading and its fun too.

        First quarter taught me a lot of strategies that benefitted me in many ways. I learned how to organize my research properly, so it could make sense and be easy to understand. I learned how to make citations to organize my websites in alphabetical order, and I learned new strategies on how to write an objective summary. In the beginning of quarter 1, I didn't know how to do some stuff, but by the end of first quarter, I learned a lot that improved my reading skills, writing, grammar, and researching skills.