“How far would
you go to save your own life?”
That question
had gone seven times at Samantha’s mind.
Samantha Kingston had everything
a teenager girl would wish for, the popularity, the looks, a loving family,
great friends and even a cool boyfriend. But what if one of her normal days
would turns to be her last?
Lauren Oliver’s first book had
taken my breath away for seven times. As I read this book, my nature had
transformed to Sam’s, visualizing how she lived her world with her mystery.
This book is poignant about
bullying but there are more aspects of this book that can hardly affect
teenagers nowadays. The idea of popularity, high school, love, friends, family,
life and death will make you understand more about it.
Sam had her best friends, Lindsay, Elody, and Ally, popularity
had been their shadows. Popularity is a weird thing, you can’t really define it
but you know it when you see it. Draw a circle and there’s an inside and outer
part of it. Popularity had a circular boundary among the students. Some are
inside-how lucky they are- and some unfortunately outside.
Sam and her friends can
basically do whatever they wanted to do and there are no consequences for them
to pay. They’ve kissed the cutest boys, went to the best parties, got just
enough trouble and got drunk. If high school was a game of poker to them, they
would be holding eighty percent of the cards.
Sam had been in the outer part
of the circle too, for the half of her life, she experienced the lowest of the
low, the worst of the bad and have to squabble, pick and fight over the left
overs. “No one said life was fair” Samantha quoted.
That’s true, life isn’t fair at all. Someone will be
wearing high heels and someone will be in sneakers but at the end of the day,
they’re wearing foot wears to protect their feet.at the end of the day, they’ll
be both normal people, teenagers.
February 12th, Samantha lived it like one of her normal days.
That day was Cupid’s Day and at that same date Samantha and her friends went to
a party at Kent McFuller’s house. At the party where they saw Juliet Sykes, the
weird girl that Lindsay hated forever. Everyone bully Juliet and thought she’s
no use. At that point where Juliet standing in the corner of the room while all
the eyes looked straight at her like she’s a ghost, Juliet seized that second
and stepped forward to take revenge to everyone. The next few moments that
night, the mystery started after the fatal car accident of Samantha and her
friends, and leaving her “greatest hits” in life with just a flash of light.
Déjà vu was the word. Everything repeats seven times, chances for Samantha
to change what she wanted to change, correct the wrong things and end her life
without any regrets left. That whole week of Samantha’s life or rather saying
her life after death had given death a new description.
Samantha said that, "you watch your whole life happen again before you die", but she saw only her
greatest hits. She also quoted, "That's when I realized that time doesn't
matter, because some moments go on forever. Even after they're over, even after
you're dead and buried, those moments are lasting still, on and on, into
infinity." She described dying as a "lifting feeling, like
laughing," she treats death as a beautiful thing, as if you just spend the
rest of forever reliving the best moments of your life.
Figure out the mystery behind
Samantha’s death and how it changed other people. Know more about Lindsay,
Elody, Ally and how she found her true love. Know how Samantha lived those
seven days living life to the fullest. Discover things between Juliet Sykes and
Samantha that would make you tear through this book.
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