The main idea Mia contemplates is death. Mia feels as though there is nothing worth the pain of surviving and therefore waking up to her new life which includes having to attend a funeral for her three most important people. Mia is having an out of body experience, she can see and hear exactly what is going on around her but nobody can see her nor knows she can see them. Mia hears one of the nurses tell her grandparents that it is her own decision if she lives or dies to which Mia exclaimed “How am I supposed to decide this? How can I possibly stay without Mom and Dad? How can I leave without Teddy? Or Adam? This is too much. I don’t even understand how it all works, why I’m here in the state that I’m in or how to get out of it if I wanted to. …show more content…
I already tried snapping my heels to find Teddy and trying to beam myself to Hawaii, and that didn’t work. This seems a whole lot more complicated.” The imagery in this quote is very clear as it gives us a visual image of Mia’s conflicted feelings and satire humor by saying she tried to snap her heels together which could also be considered an allusion as it seems to be referring to The Wizard of Oz when Dorothy clicks her heels together. It enables a vivid picture to be formed while contributing to the overall understanding of Mia’s internal thoughts by allowing us to see she can still use sarcasm in the difficult time, most likely as a distraction to her true pain. This quote also exemplifies the theme which is there is always an underlying darkness in this story, this is proved when Mia says she would not be able to persevere knowing that when, rather if, she awakens her parents will have been prematurely taken from her, which is the greatest pain of all. Further in the story, Mia learns her younger brother Teddy, who was one of the only things she had left to live for, has tragically