Where She Went Book Response

Title: Where She Went
Author: Gayle Forman
Year of Publication: 2011
Number of Pages: 260

I. Plot Summary:
Adam is a rockstar that lives in L.A., but is in New York and is about to go on tour with his band. Adam is starting to have second thoughts about being in the band because he has lost his love for music. Ever since three years ago, when his high school girlfriend lost her family, she broke up with him and he did not know why. This has bothered him for the past three years and all he wants to know is what happened. The night before he's supposed to leave on tour, he sees that his old girlfriend, Mia, is playing a cellist concert in the concert hall. He then goes in to the concert and sees her and they spend that whole night and the next day together, and end up falling in love all over again.
II. Literary Elements:
A. Narrator- First Person- "Every morning I wake up and I tell myself this..." p.1
B. Protagonist- Adam- he is the rock star who used to be wild, but now has lost that and just wants to be in touch with Mia. "Wild Man..Hes the only one who is allowed to call me that anymore. Its a take off of my last name, Wilde" p. 10
C. Antagonist- Mia- She broke up with Adam after her family died in a car crash, and Adam has no idea why she did it and is determined to find out why. "An image of Mia flashes before my eyes. Seventeen years old, those dark eyes full of love, intensity, fear, music, sex, magic, grief. Her freezing hands. My freezing hands still holding this glass of ice water."
D. Setting- In New York- " I need a cigarette before I go in, so Aldous and I stand outside in the blinding midday sun as a crowd of people gathers and checks me out while pretending not to. That's the difference between New York and the rest of the world."
E. Conflict- It is both man vs. man and man vs. self. Its Adam vs. Mia, Adam vs. Himself, and Adam vs. the band. "You sure this is what you want? he'd asked. It wasn't what I wanted. But I couldn't have what I wanted."
F. Theme- No matter how much a person may want something, you can't always have it, but if a person waits, they may get it eventually. "Yeah but some things you cant control, no matter how hard you try."
G. Historical Context- Just as it happens in many fairy tales and in this book, Mia almost dies, but she lives just to be with Adam. And then, in the end, they wind up together, loving each other. " You made me stay" p. 188
 III. Reflection- I did like this book very much because it had a great story line behind it and was somewhat touching. It somewhat reminded me of the series "Enclave" and "Outpost" because it was a love story as well and the two main characters in it, also ended up together. I do think it would make a good movie because it would make a great romantic movie and love story. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys anticipating what is going to happen in a book and enjoys a romantic love story. The book did end the way I expected because I figured Adam and Mia would end up together eventually.