Life As We Knew It Summary

Our class has finished the story Life As We Knew It, I chose to write about the stories theme in this reader's response. This story in my opinion has a strong theme telling the reader that staying together with family will help you get through any events. In the story Life As We Knew It the moon gets closer to Earth causing cities to flood and everything is chaos. At first the family is stocked up with food and is okay, but they didn’t really stick together the family all did their separate things throughout the day. Throughout the story as the disasters get worse and worse and the family begins to deal with the disasters the family begins to get closer to one another and sticking together starts to be their key to survival. In the story Miranda shows throughout her diary her care for her family and at the beginning of the story that care didn’t really show. As we got deeper into the story Miranda’s love and care for the family expressed itself

One example in the story was when a blizzard came across them and covered the area with many feet of snow. The family stuck together by taking turns searching for Matt in the snow risking themselves from getting sick. Another example could be when the wood stove malfunctioned starting to fill the sunroom with smoke that could kill the family. Miranda didn’t just leave the family in their to die to make sure she survived. She knew she couldn’t survive without them so she put in all of her effort to make sure the entire family left the sunroom while they were sick and move them to the kitchen. She risked herself to keep her family alive and make sure they have a shelter to keep the family safe. She fixed to wood stove and made sure all the smoke left the room before the family moved back into the room. Even though everything was then fine she stayed for days making sure nothing bad happened, and as well didn't eat to prevent something bad from