When You Reach Me

When You Reach Me

The Main Problem and Point of View and the Conclusion

The Beginning of the Story

The main problem in this story is when Sal gets punched him and Miranda became no longer friends. The person who is telling the story is Miranda she is the first person. The conclusion is time travel, if there wasn't any time travel Sal would have never been saved and Miranda would have never gotten the notes.

The story starts with a girl named Miranda. Miranda best friend is a boy named Sal. One day Miranda and Sal are walking home from school and a strange looking boys comes out of no where and punches Sal right in the stomach. Sal bend down and start to cry, Miranda also bent down and try to comfort Sal. Sal completely forgot about her. Later Miranda walk home by herself. When she got home the door was open this is when Miranda though things were getting weird. She looked all around the apartment nothing was stolen or broken. Miranda went to her room and nothing wrong was to. When Miranda mom come home she asked did you forget to lock the door? No her mom answered.

When You Reach Me

Book written by Rebecca Stead

By Lucy Fischer

Genre science fiction

The Middle of the Story

Miranda and the Laughing Man

In the middle of the story Miranda went back to her bedroom and looks around she notice and piece of paper sticking out of a book Miranda takes in out there was a note saying " I'm coming to save your friends life and my life." Miranda was a little worried. Since Sal was forgetting about Miranda she felt very alone wanted to have a friend she decided to find herself a new friend. Miranda was in luck she met someone named Annmarie and a boy named Colin. Miranda and her new friends went to get a job at Jimmy's sandwich shop.

Miranda is a fun loving girl who likes to enjoy life, family, and friends. She is smart, true and very kind. She is a girl with a big heart opened to anyone. The laughing man is a strange and a little bit creepy man. He is different in all sorts of ways. He is also weird, smart and nice to others.

The Ending of the Story

In the end of the story Miranda is walking home one day after school and noticed Sal being chased by Marcus. Marcus is screaming stop because Sal doesn't notice is running onto the street. Sal is about to be ran over when the laughing man runs into the street and kicks Sal out of the way the laughing man is then ran over by the truck. Miranda is shocked. She wonders around the laughing man's mailbox and noticed book, bag, shoe and pocket and realized the laughing man was the one who was hiding the notes. Miranda then realized Marcus was the laughing man and had used time travel. Miranda mom went onto 20,000 pyramid and won. Sal and Miranda became friends again, but not as close before.