Life As We Knew It By Susan Pfeffer: Theme Analysis

On July 20th 2005, tragedy struck which changed author Kimberley William’s life for years to come. Her son, Caleb Williams, went down to the Snoqualmie River and plummeted nearly 20 feet from a rope swing to the rocks below which caused a traumatic brain injury. The months following the accident tested the patience and faith of the family as Caleb lay in a comatose state. Although he lay in this state of unconsciousness for months, the family relied on God who continuously displayed his omnipotence in the healing process. When tragedy strike, believers need to persevere and continue relying on God, even when it feels like the whole world is caving in.

As the story progresses we come to understand the reason behind all of this. Unfortunately her home life is not the best as she lost her brother and her mother a victim of attempting

Maturing in life. At the beginning of life, people are innocent, with life not having a chance to tamper and corrupt them. At the end of life, they 've known loss and heartbreak and life has messed them up. But imagine if people were born all knowing and died as innocent as a baby.

What would you do if the world was ending? Would you freak out or would you stay calm? In the book Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer, Marinda is faced with a life-changing event the moon getting hit by an asteroid knocking it into the earth's orbit. This event sends the world into hiding, and after just 2 days people rush to the stores to buy anything that they can. As time goes on Miranda and her family grow together showing the common theme of when times are tough people can grow together.

Faith is a powerful belief that not many people have and only in hard times is it at its strongest. With Corrie's faith in God she wanted to help all of the Jews that were hiding away from the Germans. That's because during World War 2, all of the Germans had a hatred towards the Jews and would try to kill them. So Corrie and her family did what they believed was right by helping them even though it was prohibited to help them and could lead to death if caught. In the Hiding Place, Corrie Ten Boom portrays through the characters that having faith in God in times of suffering will give a person the strength needed to survive.

The theme is developed by how Jeannette learns how to take care of herself and her younger siblings, and the way her parent taught her. Jeannette have a very tough childhood where she have to go up quickly,so that she can work to make money. This way she won’t starve and feel the chill of winter, where there’s no heat in the house. She can also break ties with the move and rent new house to find new money sources because her dad can’t hold a job for a long

If you believe that is the theme you are crazier than a sac full of cats. I will prove my knowledge of the theme to you throughout this essay.

To me the best theme in the story is friendship. I believe that every person needs to show friendship to

You would be surprised how quickly the whole world goes from completely fine to absolute crap. Miranda experienced this first hand in this exciting novel that i think has a deeper meaning. The novel is called Life As We Know it by Susan Beth Pfeffer. It is a survival story written in a diary form in the eyes of a 16 year old girl named Miranda as she attempts to survive worldwide panic and terror with her mom and her two brothers Johnny and Matt while her dad is in springfield since they got a divorce. An asteroid hits the moon sending it hurtling towards earth but just as they think it will send us back to the stone age it stops just outside our atmosphere which causes world wide panic and terror followed by extreme flooding and volcanos

One example of this is when Lina, the main character, is being seperated from her father and she starts to draw a map of the places that she was going to pass along to her father. During this event, Lina is going through a very tough time and she strives to find a way to get back to her after. Lina shows hope in this situation by drawing a map which she hopes that would one day reach her father even though she still feels the loss of his absence. Another example of the theme is when Lina is taken from her home and forced to work for the people she hates. Lina takes this

The theme, life should be lived to the fullest, is shown throughout the

A theme is a moral that the reader can take away from the story to use in their everyday life. The allegory, “Terrible Things” by Eve Bunting, the poem, “ First They Came for the Communists” by Martin Niemöller, and the memoir, Night by Elie Wiesel all share one common theme. In the 1900’s during the holocaust, many Jews and anyone who was part of the aryan race (blonde hair blue eyes) were taken away by Nazis led by Adolf Hitler. They were taken to concentration camps many children, the elder, and babies were exterminated once they got there because the Nazis felt there was no use to them. The jews that were needed went and got their heads shaven and marked with a tattoo of numbers that were used to identify them.

This theme is related to the world because some people are so close to ending their lives that their friends are the reason why they saved themselves. Their friends end up saving their lives and taking them out of killing themselves. This theme helps people get through their lives like George and Lennie get through their lives together

For my book talk, I read a realistic fiction novel called Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer. Miranda Evans lives with her family in Pennsylvania. She attends eleventh grade at her high school, and is also a part of her local swimming team. Her life is normal until the moon is knocked closer to the earth by a meteorite. The coastlines are under water and the weather is abnormally cold.

Additionally, this reflects the theme because it demonstrates how in order to accomplish what one wants the most, one must sacrifice some aspects of their life that