After the meteor hit, Miranda’s family went into their house and checked the national news networks to find out what was happening, but they were out of service. The meteor event affected communication via satellite in the entire country. At that point in the story the reader knows everything in the world will change, but will it improve or worsen? 23) Following that moment, things just started going terribly wrong. “It was tilted and wrong and a three-quarter moon and it got larger, way larger, large like a moon rising on the horizon, only it wasn’t rising.” (p. No one expected that the moon would get closer to the earth. 18) I love the quote because you can nearly sense the emotions of the character. As Miranda says it, “Even though we knew it was going to, we were still shocked when the asteroid actually made contact with the moon.” (p. On May 18th the day the meteor was to hit at 9:30 pm everyone is so energized. The news about the meteor hitting the moon was exciting to everyone in the town because the event was going to be visible. Her dad lives with Lisa, the woman he’s married to. Her oldest brother Matt is away at college. Miranda is a sixteen year old girl who lives with her mother and younger brother Johnny. The story is written from Miranda’s point of view in the form of a diary.
Nesbitt their neighbor, Miranda’s dad, Miranda’s step-mother, Lisa, Miranda’s mother’s boyfriend, Peter, Miranda’s best friend, Megan, and Dan, her boyfriend.
Other major characters are Miranda’s mother, Miranda’s brothers Johnny and Matt Evans, Mrs. It mostly takes place in the Evans’ house and some other places in their town. The setting of the story is in rural Pennsylvania. As a reader, I could not wait to find out what would happen next as I was reading. The author keeps you in suspense from the beginning to the end. The story is really exciting and well written.
The experience that the family goes through shows that life as we know it will be a thing of the past.
The author’s purpose was to make the reader envision how life would be different if the event actually did happen. As a result the moon gets too close to Earth and causes natural disasters. Life as we knew it is about how everything goes wrong in a family’s life after a meteor hits the moon. This is a brilliantly written book, and I really loved reading it. This book shows the suffering of a family in a crisis when a meteor hits the moon. in 2006 and has 337 pages (only the story). I read the book Life as we knew it by Susan Beth Pfeffer.
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