Payton Hancox Post 3

I am reading the book The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen. I am on Chapter Three (page 40). This book is about a teenage girl named Macy who always loved to run and had lots of friends. On the day after Christmas she went out for a run a little after her dad left to run. When she was almost to her house she saw a man on the road trying trying to give CPR to her dad. He had a heart attack and died. Now she is trying to cope with her dad's death and help her mom take care of her real estate business. Since her dad died she doesn't have any friends and she never wants to run ever again. I think that the book is kind of boring, but I haven't read very far. The author wanted to write this book to show kids how they can cope with a tragedy like this and how some kids deal with problems. I think that this was her motivation because it says a lot of stuff about how she deals with it. The theme of this book is regret. Before her dad went out to run, he tried to wake her up so they could run together. She slept in a few minutes and that was why he got so far ahead of her. She thinks that if she would have woken up she could've saved him or at least said goodbye. Macy is the best character because she has been through a lot, but always tries to stay positive and  look on the bright side. She changed after her dad died because she didn't want people to feel bad for her so she quit hanging out with her friends and she quit running."There were a lot of ways to remember my dad. But I thought he would have especially liked that." Macy says that in the book. She likes to keep the little things that always made her dad happy because it helps her remember him. I am wondering if she will ever be like she was before her dad died and if she will ever run again?