This is what happened in the first chapters. The author introduces a fifteen year old girl called Miranda who lives with her mother and little brother Jonny. His older brother, Matt is in college and his father is just somewhere else living with his new pregnant wife. Miranda also has her school friends, Sammi and Megan. Originally they where four, but one of them, Becky, got sick and she died. After that traumatic event, Sammi became way more careless of what she did and how she acted and Megan turned to religion but in a really extreme way. So there she was, little Miranda with her unusual friends and her separated family.
One day, it was announced that an asteroid would hit the moon
and that it would be visible from Earth. Everyone was really excited and people all over the social media, the news and even school couldn't stop talking about it.
When the day came, Miranda and her family went to the streets where
other neighbors were waiting too, except for Mrs. Nesbitt who was too
old to be outside waiting for so long. The moment was approaching, but when the moon got hit, the excitement vanished. Fear started to invade people as the moon started to grow bigger and bigger as it came
closer to the Earth. People were panicking and went inside
their houses, turning the TV on to see the news. They saw that New York and all the other coastlines had been completely flooded with
gigantic tidal waves and tsunamis. As you may know, the distance that
the Earth has with the moon is the reason waves are the way they are. The light went out. Next morning everything seemed like a dream although, the fact that there was still no light, reminded them it was all real. The first thing that Miranda and her family tried to do was to reach their Dad to ask if he and Lisa (his wife) were okay, and thankfully, after many tries, they could talk to each other and make sure that everyone was alive. Miranda and Jonny still went to school that day, trying to convince themselves that everything was at least a little bit normal. Obviously it didn't work. When they got there, half of the students and even teachers were absent and a huge thunderstorm started. Everyone started screaming and crying as they were led to the dark hallways until the storm ended, but then, Miranda's mom showed up and told her to go with her. When she got in the car, she found out that Jonny and Mrs. Nesbitt where there too, and her mom handed an envelope with a lot of money to each one. They headed to the supermarket and her instruction were clear. They had to take anything that they thought could be useful, canned food, water, drinks, supplies, clothes and cat food for their pet, Horton because the supermarket was charging a hundred dollars for every cart no matter what was inside it. That day, they spent the whole evening unloading the car from everything that they had bought. As days passed, they started cherishing small things like eggs, nuts and spinach, stuff that they couldn't get anymore in the supermarkets that were now empty because of people like Miranda's family.
It was announced that school would end soon because they didn't have enough food for all the students, so exams were cancelled. But, during those last days, they received a peanut butter sandwich each. What worried Miranda the most was that her friend Megan was giving away all her sandwiches to different students, because she said that God was all she needed to survive, but she was starting to become skinny. Miranda is trying to act normal, but it becomes harder and harder as her surroundings change because of the moon. What will happen next?
"And then it hit. Even though we knew it was going to, we were still shocked when the asteroid actually made contact with the moon. With our moon. At that second, I think we all realized that is was Our Moon and if it was attacked, then we were attacked." (Pfeffer, 18)
This really got me thinking and what it said was completely right. Even if it is not inside the Earth, the moon is still ours and people should be more aware of what happens to it. I kept wondering how the people in the book didn't realize this before, so that a least some people could be saved and more precautions could have been taken before the impact. That is when I realized that this book has some things that are completely unrealistic. With all the technology that we have today and all the smart people who carry out studies, we would have been able to predict the consequences of an asteroid hitting the moon. At least to some people it would have occurred that it would cause problems, but this didn't happen in the book.
"I know it's dumb for me, but I keep thinking that once Matt gets home, everything will be okay. Like he'll push the moon back into place." - Miranda (Pfeffer 48)I keep wondering why her older brother is so important for Miranda. Was he the one that payed the most attention to her before he left? Anyway what I liked the most was the trust that she has in him, how she feels safe when she is around Matt. If the moon situation were to happen in real life, everyone should have someone that means what Matt means to Miranda. I even feel somewhat jealous because she has an older brother that protects her, and I do not. This quote even makes me predict that once Matt comes home, as Miranda said, everything will come back to normal in their house, even if the problems from outside will keep going.
I am really looking forward to reading the rest of this book. I am really enjoying the concept that it carries and I find it interesting that the topic isn't the usual love story or a recycled plot. It is something different, original and unique. I also like the fact that the main character is around my age because I am able to relate to her feelings and thoughts, and that helps me have a better understanding of the novel. I predict that the most probable thing to happen next is that there will be more natural disasters, and that Miranda's family is going to suffer a crisis. It is just a prediction, I really don't know but it is very likely, since the book should have a problem for it to continue the plot. I can't wait to see what happens next. See you soon in my next post
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