Connections to Saving Zoë

Tears poured down your face, your heart felt like it has been torn apart, the grief was filling your mind as you sat at your sister’s funeral. What would you do without your older sister? Alyson Noël’s book, Saving Zoë, is a book that can provoke thoughts in the minds of teenage girls.

Every girl dreams of having a perfect life, although it never happens. Everyone has had road blocks on their way through life, some big, some small. One of those road blocks is grief. By the age of 15, almost every girl has experienced this feeling, whether it be their grandfather or their sister who died.  Echo is 15 and it has been a year since her sister, Zoë died. She is starting high school and mostly anyone who is in or has been through high school can relate to that. No one’s life is perfect, and that’s why everyone can connect to this book.

There are plenty of things that anyone can connect to this book. For example, one of the many connections someone could have is knowing exactly how Echo feels. They could have had their sister die or a loved one pass away. Everyone has sympathy for for you if something like this happens, but the thing they don’t know is when to stop. This is how everyone treats Echo, watching what they say, trying to keep her happy, as if Zoë died yesterday,  not a year ago. Another connection someone might have could be about the other side of the book. They could have a connection with the relationship that Echo had with a boy named Parker. One more connection that you could make would be that Echo and her family have to learn to overcome the death of Zoë and the reader’s family might have to overcome something although it may not be death.

Many teenage girls can make connections to the book Saving Zoë. If someone else were to read this book, the would definitely agree with me.