Second Quarter SSR

For the second quarter, I read a book called Life As We Knew It. The story is about the moon getting hit with an asteroid and it gets pushed closer to the earth. As a result, there were many catastrophic events, such as large tsunamis. The main character, Miranda Evans, was a normal girl in high school. After the event, she tried to make things normal until a certain point. She idolizes her older brother, Matt, who was gone for the first part of the book. Miranda was the one person who had stayed sane in the first few weeks of the book. When most people left to go be with their families, she kept going to school. Even when her mother stocked up on cans and supplies they might need in case it turned into an apocalypse, she questioned whether they needed all of the things they got. She tried to hold onto her life for as long as she could. However, later she gained a lot of responsibility. In time, her family all got a deadly strain of the flu, but she was the only one who didn't get it. She had to take care of her family through their sickness because she was the only one well enough to do it. I think that that was one of the things that made her realize that her world was more serious than it used to be. I think that she is how most of us would be if we were living through an event like the one in the book. I know that I would try to keep things from getting too out of hand and I would not want to accept the change that had happened.