Author's Note: This is a response to a journal entry we were assigned. The journal was to choose an event in your novel, and show how it would have been told in a minor character's point of view. The part I chose is Miranda not wanting to have contact with her friends, and the minor character I chose to be have her point of view shown is Miranda's mother.

In Life as We Knew It, Miranda brings a certain flair to the novel that interprets the way the reader ponders the book. For example, on page one hundred and eleven, Miranda makes judgments about her friends and says it doesn’t matter that she has not seen them in weeks. Since it's in her point of view, most readers simply agree with her, and don't think about the topic any further. If the author had put this scene in another character's point of view, like Miranda's mother, the reader probably would have thought about it different. Her mother felt that making sure Miranda had people to relate to other than family during these times were very important, and would have said that it was crucial for her to visit them. Obviously, Miranda didn't feel the same way. The reader of this novel probably would have thought of the event in a different light if Miranda wasn't the one narrating the story.