After Ever After

The book After Ever After is a book about a teen named Jeffrey Alper. In the beginning of the book he talks about having cancer in fourth grade but luckily he survived making him a cancer survivor. The cancer is far behind him but, he still worries that it might come back. Now that he’s in eighth grade he tries to have a normal life and worry about “normal” stuff. As the he explains his life he mentions how he meets his best friend, Tad, also a cancer survivor. Jeffrey also brings up another character named Lindsay, his crush that later on becomes his girlfriend. Things were looking really great for Jeffrey until he discovers a letter for his parents on the mailbox. The letter informed that in order to pass eighth grade every eighth grader had to pass a state test in which there would be a lot of math involved. Which was a huge problem because math was something Jeffrey has struggled with. And if his dad, who's a math teacher himself, were to find out about this test he would make Jeffrey go on study mode everyday until the test.

So far in After Ever After there have been a few important events but one that has stuck out to me the most is the story of Jeffrey’s cancer. The reason why is because having cancer can change anyone's life, it can make you see life with a different perspective. For Jeffrey death doesn't seem like a big deal to him. He believes that when it comes to death he's more mature than his older brother Steven. Cancer didn't only affect Jeffrey but it also affected his friend Tad who's also a cancer survivor. Tad is in a wheelchair due to all the brain damage that caused him not to have full control of his body. Although it's not impossible for him to walk he says he stopped completely trying because of a comment his crush made about him walking funny. Cancer is something that will change a person's perspective and motives on certain things either for better or worse.

A prediction that I have for the next pages of the book is that since I'm in the middle of the book something big is going to happen that will change the course of the story. For instance maybe Steven will come back from Africa and will give Jeffrey lots of advice that might change all of the decisions that he makes from now on in the book. Another thing that could happen as well is Tad getting cancer again. That would definitely be something crucial to the book because that's Jeffrey's best friend. We would also get to see if Jeffrey's perspective of death changes.

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