A Terminal Illness In John Steinbeck's A World Without You

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Many novels have unsatisfactory endings. Such as the main character dying, the dog dies, one of the main characters gets a terminal illness, and so on. In A World Without You none of these examples happened. No one died, no one left, and no beloved animals died. In A World Without You it seemed as though the book stopped mid-sentence. Phoebe, Bo’s little sister, is a senior in high school. She gets all A’s, she is in all of the offered clubs, and she takes courses for the sole purpose of them looking good on her high school record when applying for college. She wants to live and maintain this lifestyle to please her parents. She feels that with Bo’s illness and all of the attention that he is receiving from her parents, that she must go above and beyond any ordinary daughter in order to not be forgotten. The book, A World Without You, ends at Phoebe’s high school graduation. She is excited because for the first time ever, she isn’t going to try …show more content…
He has little to no control over his powers. When his parents found out, they sent him to a special school for children with powers like him such as the ability to shoot fire out of their palms, turn invisible, manipulate people’s minds, and even talk to ghosts. Bo was trying to show off his powers to a girl he liked at the school, Sophia. He took her to a small cabin in 1692. Bo can only travel through time with people if he’s touching them. He let go of Sophia’s hand right before he was snapped back into the present. Sophia was left in 1692 in the small cabin, during the Salem Witch Trials. At the end of the book, it didn’t explain if Bo would be able to go back and save Sophia or if he would keep getting snapped back into the present. He could visit her in the past before he left her in the past in the cabin, but he was unable to tell her what had happened in what would be her future. This was quite a good book except for the abrupt ending. I would unquestionably recommend this book to a