A "Normal" Life

This is how I imagine Miranda's world. 

The situation is the Earth is getting worst every time. There is no more real food, just the ones that come in cans or are dehydrated and no electricity, just at certain times of the day. Mosquitos have started to infest the whole world creating incurable diseases that have been more difficult to cure due to the lack of medicine in the planet and number of doctors available. But this hasn’t changed Miranda, because now, she is in love with Dan. He was a friend of Miranda way before the moon situation; they knew each other from swimming team, both of them where great swimmers and enjoyed the sport. Dan soon became a distraction from the terrible situation on Earth, and now he is one of the most important being in Miranda’s life. Another person who made the house feel safer and welcoming was Miranda’s mother boyfriend, Peter. He was a doctor and had easy access to medicine; this was a benefit for the whole family.

Even though Miranda is feeling safer, it doesn’t mean that the world is better. Volcanic eruptions and huge tsunamis have started to damage the Earth. The sky is no longer blue, it’s gray. This is just as small example of how the world is tearing apart and destroying everything with it.

Temperatures have also risen and started a whole new set of chaos. One of them will be the unpredictable thunderstones or hurricanes that slowly make their way into creating a terrible place to live in that people call The Earth.

Miranda’s world is also tearing apart when Dan, her former boyfriend, leaves town, saying goodbye and not knowing if they will ever meet again. 

So far, this book has taught me the importance of appreciating the life I have. This includes family, health, safety and food. While reading I have realized that everyone should be grateful of the life that everyone is given, whether you like or not. This can be shown when Miranda says:

“I wonder if I’ll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we’re living or no life at all” (Pfeffer 119).

When I read this quote I thought about how so many people think that their life is not great or that it doesn’t have any meaning. This quote made me realize that living under bad circumstances is better than not living at all. I think that the right to live by itself is a gift that should not be wasted because once you lose it you can never get it back.

Another lesson that this book has made me keep in mind, is how fast we, humans, can change our minds and not appreciate what we have in the beginning. This is shown in the quote were Miranda states:

“Just yesterday, I’d been wishing thing would cool off, and now that they have, I miss heat so much.” (Pferrer 125).

After reading this, I realized that we don’t appreciate what we have every day. We all think about how things are better or worse for anybody else instead of just focusing in us. We all are so caught up in the idea of being grateful, but do we really mean it? The problem with our society is that we don’t value the things we have in the present. That is why in the future we are so angry, sad and ungrateful. We should all learn to appreciate the small thing in OUR life and no others because that way we will all realize that what we have right now is great.  

Until now, I have really enjoyed this book and I think that all of the lessons and themes that it contains are applicable to one’s daily life, this is why I think that this book is so interesting and great.