Literature Analysis

The book "Before I Fall" is about this girl (Samantha) that has a perfect life. Then on Friday, February 12 turns out to be her last day. The odd thing about it was that she had relive that day seven times. The reason being is that so she could make different choices and see if how she really died. Everyday has new outcomes because she chooses new options.

The theme of the novel would be something like you never know what your last day would be so live without regrets. Another one would be live each day to fullest. My favorite one would be live each day as it were your last.

This author seemed like the party type and enjoys to wake up late. There's a possibility that this author is obsessed with death and alcohol. This person is lacking nutrition and hardly eats because she seems so busy with being in a different world which would be reading and creating books. I think this author is single and has no kids so she relies on her teenager years to create vivid books. The reason being that I think she is obsessed with alcohol is because in the book it says " Ally takes a sip of the vodka she's holding" she mentions that Ally does this seven times and gets drunk seven times in the story. Also about the author being obsessed with death is that why would she create a book that makes the perfect human being die but relive her last day seven times. " When we were younger- freshman year and even half of sophomore year - we'd sometimes stay in and put on clay masks and order Chinese food." By using the memory that the main character has it seems that this could be one of the author's memory when she was a teenager.

This author uses aside because there is more than one main character and each character describes their own understanding of each other in the book and basically describes their weakness and strongest. The Climax of the story was when the main character got in a car crash and ended her life but only reliving that same day. The author uses imagery by saying that during the car crash Samantha could see lights and see her life flash right before her eyes. Samantha always picked on this girl named Juliet, she thought she was a freak. The metaphor Samantha uses is that " I watch Juliet's hair flash in the sunlight like its catching fire." The last one would be personification in the quote " On the horizon is the black line of clouds, just sitting there, a curtain about to be closed." The personification would be the curtain wanting to be closed even though the clouds aren't curtains.