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Author), Gayle Forman (Goodreads. "Where She Went (If I Stay, #2)." Goodreads. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 May 2017.

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10 Most Important Things
1. Mia's family died in a tragic accident and Mia was in a coma.
2. Adam made a promised Mia when she was in a coma, that if she woke up he would leave her because it was too painful.
3. Mia goes through therapy and is able to physically attend Julliard.
4. Mia stops contacting Adam and he becomes depressed so he decides to put all of his emotion in his band's album.
5. The band goes on a small tour, and the album becomes a platinum record.
6. Adam becomes more famous than his other bandmates which causes tension and a big fight so Adam feels even more alone.
7. Adam is in New York alone and sees Mia's signs so he attends one of her concerts just to listen to her.
8. She calls him backstage and they go on a crazy journey.
9. They open up old wounds and Adam feels content to finally understand why Mia left him all these years.
10. Adam falls in love with Mia all over again even though he knows he needs to keep his promise and keep his distance.
These are the major events that allow the plot to change its course. The most important part is the car accident because if Mia's parents didn't die, then this whole story would not have occurred and no major conflict would have happened.
The picture that is used is the novel cover because of the person on it. Mia is the girl on the cover and is one of the main characters.

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Forman, Gayle. Where She Went. Waterville, ME: Thorndike, a Part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015. Print.

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"Ruby-throated Hummingbird." , Identification, All About Birds - Cornell Lab of Ornithology. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 May 2017.

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JuergenSchenk. "Frédéric Burgmueller-Nocturne-cello and Guitar." YouTube. YouTube, 11 Sept. 2009. Web. 10 May 2017.

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This novel uses many literary devices to explain the protagonist's complex thoughts. In one scene, Adam explains how the fans react when they see the band. He states, "But as soon as we started touring, they were buzzing about like hummingbirds dipping their beaks into the spring flowers" (Foreman 146). This phrase contains the literary device similes because the author is comparing two unlike things using like. In this case he is comparing the fans to the hummingbirds. Another sentence that contains a literary device is "Whenever I remember it, I just picture our tent, a little ship glowing in the night"(Foreman 175). This is a metaphor because it compares two things without using like or as. In this sentence, it is comparing Mia and Adam's tent to the little ship because it is secluded from the rest of the world. In many of Adam's dialogue, it is transparent to see that he exaggerates his sentences and uses much sarcasm. That is why hyperbolas are expected. One of the hyperbolas is, "Yeah pictures. I have a ton on my phone, but its back at the hotel" (Foreman 10). It is a common fact that no one has a ton of photos on their phone therefore the sentence contains a hyperbole. The fourth literary element that is introduced in the novel is idioms. In one of Adam's statements he says, " More to the point, missing tomorrow' s meeting with the rest of the band and the video director will be one more little earthquake" (Foreman 29). That is because missing the meeting will not cause a earthquake but he is showing us how dramatic it can be. The final literary element in onomatopoeia. The interviewer was speaking about Adam's album when she said, "Rumors were that your band broke up. And then comes Collateral Damage. And pow" (Foreman 14). The interviewer makes the sound pow, therefore it is onomatopoeia

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The dearest things to the main two characters are their instruments. For Adam, it is his first guitar that he got on his birthday instead of a gun for hunting. For Mia, it is her cello that she has been playing for years and was given to her when her family could barley afford it.
When Adam was in the lowest form of himself, he took it out on his guitar and wrote songs that shook the world. For a charity, however, he sold his first guitar that he loved so much. This symbolizes Mia because she was his first and truly only love and she has went away and no longer belongs to him. However in the end of the novel, it turns out that Mia is the one who bought the guitar from the charity. Adam speaks about the incident and says, " When I see what she pulls out of the cabinet, at first I'm like, 'Oh right, my guitar.'... It's the guitar I auctioned off for charity and have regretted doing so ever since" (Foreman 230). The happiness he previously had in his life because of Mia and his guitar. When both of them went away, he was depressed as ever. Therefore the guitar symbolizes Mia because she is the hearth of happiness. It is a known fact that Mia is a cello prodigy. As a young adult she has accomplished one dares not to dream of at such a young age. She has played in front of large crowds in Caranagee Hall and graduated early from Julliard which is a prestigious musical university. She will also be touring in Tokyo. The cello symbolizes her family. That is because they bought first one she has received. Secondly, during the harsh times of life, Mia leaned on her family, however, since they are gone, she has to find another place to be her rock. That is when the cello comes to play.
In the picture, there is a cello and a guitar. In one of the scenes, Mia and Adam play together, and it was intense. Adam describes it as, " We play for what seems like hours, days, years. I can't even tell anymore. We speed up then slow down, we scream our instruments"
( Foreman 235).