Meet Mia-your cello playing, family girl who has it all. A great, loving family; a semi-famous boyfriend; and a chance to go to Julliard. She had it all, but that all changed one afternoon... the afternoon she lost it all. She lost part of her family, she might lose her boyfriend, and she might lose her opportunity at Julliard... all because of one snowy afternoon. And now she's expected to choose whether to stay or leave. At seventeen years old, she's expected to choose whether she lives or dies.
I like Mia. She's different than most girls her age and from her family. She cares tremendously about her family. She's outgoing, she knows what she wants. She knew that she wanted to play the cello when she first saw it; she knew she didn't want to be a rock chick and be like her father, but a cellist.
"I need to find Teddy! Where is he?" These were the thoughts that ran through Mia's head after the crash. After she finds both of her parents, she sets out to find her younger brother. I like this because she's concerned for her whole family; she had found her mother and father, and now she needs to find her little brother. Like Lilo and Stitch once said, "Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten." Mia isn't going to stop until she knows where Teddy is.
"I brush off my hands onto my skirt and walk into the road to find them." This quote is from after the crash, Mia gets up and brushes herself off and then sets out to find her family. This shows how Mia cares about her family and their whereabouts and safety. "I know it's silly but I have always wondered if Dad is disappointed that I didn't become a rock chick. I'd meant to. Then, in third grade, I'd wandered over to the cello in music class-- it looked so human to me." This quote shows how Mia intended to become a rock chick and follow in her father's footsteps, but then she laid eyes on the cello and it looked so familiar and welcoming to her. It shows how once she gazed upon the magnificent instrument, she knew she was meant to play it.
I would compare Mia to Hazel Grace from The Fault In Our Stars. Mia is like Hazel and Hazel is like Mia. They both had to make difficult choices at such young ages. Hazel had to choose whether or not to let people other than her parents in or not. She didn't want to let them in because she knew that she had a greater chance at dying young due to her cancer and that they would end up getting hurt, but then she met Augustus and had to rethink her decision. Mia has an even bigger decision to make. She has to choose between life and death. She has to choose whether she stays or whether she leaves. If she stays, she would be without her mother and father to guide and love her. But if she leaves, she would have to leave behind Teddy and her boyfriend, Adam. All she knows is that, whether she stays or goes, someone is going to be left behind. How is a seventeen-year-old girl supposed to choose between life and death? Between her parents and her brother and boyfriend? What will she choose?
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