Life as we knew it: The moon started it all

I’m currently reading this book called Life As We Knew it by Susan Pfeffer, so far in the book I think it’s very compelling because at first everything was normal then Susan Pfeffer would pull you back in. I think Susan Pfeffer when writing this book tried to make her book memorable by taking one thing that everyone over looks and made it her main focus and wrote her book around it. She used the moon and wrote a book about how just one thing like a meteor hitting the moon and everyone thinking that it wasn’t going to change anything , but they would be wrong because it did change things. Dramatically. It caused the moon to move off its axis and move closer to the earth. At first it was the only thing Miranda (the main character) could think of, but later on through the book she started caring less about it. Also when the thought or topic would pop up in their conversations they would just change to a different topic or there would be a long silence.

Jonny- “The chickens didn’t lay as much eggs and milk production went down…… Only we didn’t want to talk about that, so we switched topics real fast.” (p. 145)

This was an example I found when I was reading the book. It shows that they didn’t want to talk about the subject much or the cause of all this.