Every morning she opens her eyes is a new chapter to understand who Kingston is and why she does what she does.Īs a young adult, you already know how difficult it can be to find your true self. Through her wrongs, the feeling of empathy you instill upon her is impossible to ignore. As the reader, you will begin to make your own assumptions about her character, but you will soon feel extremely conflicted. Oliver did an amazing job contrasting between Kingston’s morals and the choices she makes. It continues to be this same day seven times over again, forcing Kingston to relive her last day until she realizes the faults she’s putting out into the world around her, the worth she didn’t know she embodied and the wrongs that she has the potential to make right, at her very fingertips. Until the sound of the rhythmic alarm tone is heard in the background. However, that is until she dies that very night in a devastating accident.
12, “Cupid Day,” was supposed to be a day of partying, roses and privilege for the ranking queen of the social pyramid, Samantha. Popular high school senior Samantha Kingston knows this surreal experience all too well in Lauren Oliver’s young adult novel, Before I Fall.įeb. It is the internal motion that one has lived through the specific situation and has “already seen” what is currently occurring. Or maybe you didn’t even realize the impact of what you had done or said to outside parties.ĭéja vu is defined as a feeling of having already experienced the present situation. The thought of a decision you made aches in the back of your head, unable to shut off the persistent and lingering judgment you’re giving to yourself. Have you ever made a mistake one day that haunts you when you go to bed that night? You think to yourself, “Why would I say that” or “I should’ve chosen to go somewhere else” or even “That wasn’t the right decision and I knew that.”
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