Summary
Mia is a very talented 17 year old, and gifted cellist who loves to play music. She was living "the good life" by having what she wants, a loving family, an adoring boyfriend, an amazing best friend, and an amazing career ahead of her in music. All of that changes suddenly changed in one second. Mia and her family got into a terrible car accident and Mia and her brother were rushed to the ICU, and her parents died in the car. Mia was between life and death bed, and was watching her family and friends come to visit her at the hospital she was in. Soon Mia realized that she has to make the most critical decision of her life which is to wake up to live a life that is more difficult than she can have imagined, or slip away and die. The main conflict in this book is weather Mia chooses to stay and live, or to leave to die and loss everything that she has built. The characters who are involved in her making her choice are all her family that is left, Adam her boyfriend, and Kim her best friend.
Point of View
If I Stay is written in the first person from the point of view of Mia, the main character. The entire story takes place in Mia's mind as she lies unconscious in a hospital following a devastating car accident. As the book's narrator, Mia switches back and forth between the present tense, which she uses when talking about what she is currently thinking or what is going on around her, and the past tense, which she uses when she reflects on her life and relationships. Using a first-person narrator means that the reader always knows exactly what Mia is thinking and feeling, including during her reflections on previous experiences. However, we only see the other characters through her eyes with no opportunity to get information from their own perspectives.
If I Stay is written in the first person from the point of view of Mia, the main character. The entire story takes place in Mia's mind as she lies unconscious in a hospital following a devastating car accident. As the book's narrator, Mia switches back and forth between the present tense, which she uses when talking about what she is currently thinking or what is going on around her, and the past tense, which she uses when she reflects on her life and relationships. Using a first-person narrator means that the reader always knows exactly what Mia is thinking and feeling, including during her reflections on previous experiences. However, we only see the other characters through her eyes with no opportunity to get information from their own perspectives.