Life as We Knew it #2: Issues and Pictures of The Moon

This week when I was reading Life as We Knew It by Susan Pfeffer I found that issues started to rise. One issue was police and firefighters were no longer there cause they have gone south to where they “thought” was safer –but we don’t know yet because were reading this book from Miranda’s point of view and she whatever she doesn’t know we don’t know much more than she does. With no police it’s becoming dangerous in the world they live in. One such dangerous thing that Miranda encountered during her visit into the town was a group of boys that had a gun (this proved that the law was no longer enforced) and they were taking off the planks that covered the emptied out stores and no one was around to yell at them or tell them not to do that. Another thing that’s an issue in this book is that now that it’s dangerous to leave your house the idea of women/ girls being more vulnerable. I wonder if they should just stay in their house the whole day long and let the men/ boys do the work. I also wonder if the world will ever be the same again because I don’t think so because what I have been reading there are no changes that are positive back that might lead back to what it had been before all this had happened.

I also notice that Susan Pfeffer divided the book by season then by chapter and when I looked closer I noticed that whenever a new season started they would have a picture of the moon and the shading would change and when you look at the chapter beginnings first it started with a small moon then when the moon came closer and closer the moons in the beginning of the chapters would grow bigger and bigger. Hmmmm…… I wonder if this means something.