Plot : Gabby

Plot (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution) is the sequence of related events that make up a story or novel.

The novel starts when Ellie is at home and is with her mother. In the begginning as in every book, the author explains about her life and her background with her mother and sister. Throughout the novel, this information expands with the reader finding out that her sister, Anne is lesbian and how she really doesnt agree with Miah and Ellie.

Ellie goes to school the next day and her and Miah aka Jeremiah bumped into each other. They both felt as if it was heaven as they met eyes as the text explains. The book grows on when Miah and Ellie are thinking and dreaming about each other every second of the day. A chapter also then explains Miah's past and background.

At school, they became closer and got to know each other better when Miah transferred into Ellie's social studies class, sitting next to her. They read the textbook and talked to each other little, probably being that they both liked each other and was nervous.

As the novel went on, they started going out, getting closer then ever. Miah and Ellie then cut class together in order to spend time with each other. They went to Central Park. As they started to go out in public, (holding each others hands, kissing and being together all the time) people started looking at them the wrong way becuase Miah was black and Ellie was jewish and white. Getting ever closer, Ellie went with Miah to Brooklyn to meet Miah's dad and his girlfriend. Reading the book, I think it was very awkward for Ellie being that his father was with his girlfriend and they were black.

In the end of the story, Miah was playing basketball with his friends in a white neighborhood. A police officer came and was looking for a tall black skinny man who was dark-skinned. Miah wanted to make the last shot so his b-ball team would win and the officer yelled "stop". He was shot and lost his life. Ellie was devastated in the end when they had his funeral.

Discussion Questions
(If you read the book only) How did the author explain Miah's death? Did you know he died when he was shot?
What does a plot/summary have to consist of to explain everything in the book?