Before I Fall

How would you feel if you kept waking up to live the same day over again? Would you feel angry, helpless, confused, or panicky? Would you tell your best friends that you love more than you family? That is how Sam felt in the story Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver. You could be the most popular person in your grade and something like this still happen to you. Even though this is a total fiction story it teaches us the importance of making good decisions.

Even if the beginning of this story is happy and normal, the story takes a quick turn and turns sad. I could not picture what I would do if I would wake up after dying and relive the same day over again. What would you do? Would you freak out or be calm? I would be so confused, it would feel just like déjà vu. I would tell my parents, but I don't think I would tell my friends I would think that they would think I'm crazy. If my parents thought I'm crazy then I have no clue what I would do. I guess I would just think I was dreaming and thought I would wake up the nightmare that I was in. I would try my best to try and figure out what was happening, I would read up on it and if that didn’t work I would go to the doctor. I would try to make it better and stop. If none of that works I would sit and think, if I could get out of dying, just like Sam did and then it stopped. Sam jumped for joy with her friends, I would too.

Although I wouldn’t know what to do or how I would tell, Sam got out of it. Sam didn’t tell her friends, but I think Sam's friends were getting suspicious of her. Sam's best friends are the best ever, but they lead each other to make bad choices. Almost everybody at this high school drinks alcohol and/or smokes. Every body goes to parties and get drunk. In fact at this party is where Sam and her friends all die in a car crash and then wake up the next day. Do all of Sam's friends have the same problem that Sam does? Then after Sam didn’t go to the party she didn’t die so her life went on. But that night they woke up from phones ringing of the hook. It was the neighbor of one of the girls that Sam and her friends hated and bullied, she killed her self. She shot herself in the head. They cant believe it. What would you do in a situation like that? Would you still be their friend? Would you tell them to not be so mean? What would you do?

If I could achieve all that Sam did I would be very happy with myself. In this story Sam achieved many things, such as making better decisions by quitting smoking and not accepting alcohol at the age of 18. Over all I feel this book left a great impact on me. It taught me what harmful things alcohol and smoking can do to you. Also it taught me just to have fun in life and cherish what we have. I believe everyone should read this book. Just think, close your eyes and think, what would you do if you lived the same day over again?