well recently i read a book called i was here by Gayle Forman. i was here is the newest book by Gayle Forman.
the story tells about a girl called meg, that commit suicide. by drinking a bottle of industrial-strength cleaner alone in a motel room. Cody 18 years old, that is meg's best friend shocked and devastated. She and meg shared everything so how was there no warning how meg did something like this and cody was not aware of it. Cody was asked to go to meg's apartment to pack her stuff once cody was there packing her stuff she finds meg's laptop and starts to do some digging why her best friend would do something like that.The investigation is interesting with lots of twists and turns. Was Meg pushed to it by a callous ex-boyfriend? Was she manipulated by a mysterious man online? Was she actually murdered?Well, Cody quickly becomes obsessed with finding the reason, the “smoking gun,” behind Meg’s death. She goes through Meg’s old e-mails, confronts her ex-boyfriend, and carefully examines her web history. She finds out that meg was a member of an online suicide group. She sees a number of people in the group that wanted to kill themselves,and “supportive” messages from others encouraging them. Suicide is described as a brave decision and even as an act of rebellious non-conformity. Cody discovers a conversation between Meg and another member in which he convinces her that she wouldn’t really be hurting anyone she left behind. One is almost left with the impression that Meg killed herself because she thought it would be a cool thing to do. Early on she thinks Meg’s ex led her to suicide, but by the end of the book he’s not only Cody’s own love interest, but also her first sexual experience. Cody is endlessly driven to meet the man who “killed” her friend, but takes a detour to meet her long-lost father on the way to confront the man. She hates her life and feels vague temptations to kill herself, but by the end of the story she’s over it all and ready to move on.All of these components might have worked well in another story. Here, they just feel disrespectful. Everything she does that should be about better understanding Meg is only used to make Cody grow. Meg’s jerky ex becomes Cody’s fulfilling relationship. A search to find Meg’s enabler becomes Cody’s means of making peace with her father. And the way Cody gets over being suicidal is just insulting. It’s basically saying you only feel suicidal if life gets rough and that looking at things a new way is the cure for everything. At one point Cody’s mom even says that she knows Cody wouldn’t kill herself because she isn’t “stupid” like Meg. At the end Cody finally goes to Meg’s parents with everything she’s learned. She has her triumphant moment of “This is why Meg died!” Then the parents quietly shut her down. There was no “smoking gun,” not really. Meg killed herself because she had depression. She had it for years and just hid it well. It was a family illness. Was Here bears the message that there is no real reason for suicide. It’s a consequence of an illness. Suicide is something we must grieve over and then accept when it happens to those we love. The sentiment is powerful and one I can respect.
i enjoyed reading the book and learned that suicide is a thing that we don't need to think about it at all, because god gave us a life to live, i know now a days life is not easy to live hatred, war,and a lot of things are going on. From my personal experience and what i am through right now i personally have been in days where i lost hope in a lot of things, i had days that i asked myself why im living in this word. i really had a bad days specially those last few months. But believe me we all have been in this places in life where we lost hope. But as they say if one door closes in your face another one will open. Remember that life is a challenge to us. We will have bad and good days. We will be happy in some days and sad in another. Everyday is a new page in our life. All i want to say is that no matter how hard days go with you don't ever think of giving up your life for it. Because in the end everything will be okay. Always keep your faith in everything. God is always here, here with you. Good days are coming remember that.
I hope you enjoyed reading the review i'll do more soon. Have a good day.
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Vera Varjabedian
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