Girlfriend+in+A+Coma

Our group thinks that we should read this book because it is about seniors in high school. The book is about seniors and their lives in and out of school. This book can help prepare us for what may come. Also our group, Tori, Akva, and Kim are into these kind of books. Many teenagers are. We also think that we will be more into this book, considering the other book we read wasn't that great.Girlfriend in a Coma is a novel written by Douglas Coupland. The novel tells the story about a group of friends growing up in British Columbia, Canada. The story is about when Karen falls into a coma at a party one night. She had a dreamy of this happening before it happened and she told her boyfriend about earlier. This book is based on many things and it can teach you many lessons in life. We are very excited to read this book because it is going to change your perspective on many things.

Characters- Week 1: Karen- a seventeen year old girl who becomes pregnant and is in a coma. She is in love with Richard and is graduating highschool. Richard- seventeen year old boy who is the father of Megan, Karens daughter, and loves Karen. Wendy- Karens friend who pours her drinks the night before her coma and helps her when she becomes really sick. Pam- also Karens friend, along with everyone else, and she helps Karen out when she is in her coma Mr. and Mrs. McNeil- Karens parents, Mrs. McNeil is an "OCD crazy meticulous lady" takes care of the baby while Karen is still in the coma. Linus and Hamilton- friends of Richard and Karen

In this meeting we talked about the characters and the story line. Karen, a seventeen year old girl has a vision that her life is going to end within the next day. So that night she does everything that she wants to do and has sex with her boyfriend. Her boyfriend then that night gets her pregnant and the following day she slips into a coma. This book tells about how she and her family deals with her coma and her new baby that is on the way. We only read up to age 57 so we didnt really get deep into the book.

Discussion Questions: 1) What is Karens babys name going to be? - Megan 2) Who is going to take care of Karens baby until she wakes out of her coma? - Mrs. McNeil 3) Did Karen drink the night before her coma? - She only had one drink which wouldnt cause her to be in a coma. 4) Who is Richard? - Richard is Karens "boyfriend". He is there for Karen through it all. 5) What do the friends think happened to Karen after she started throwing up? - They thought she had a really bad hangover, although she only drank 2 drinks. She was also on diet pills, so they could have interfeered.

Language- Week 2: Conversational language minimal amount of details, only the crucial description placed in. There is alot of dialouge. The story is told by the first part by Richard, Karen's boyfriend. We read up to page 104 and the book is getting very good. Karen wakes up from her coma and then Karen's daughter, Megan thinks she is pregnant but does not tell Karen. We kind of stop in the middle of the book at page 104 but we will find out what else happens soon enough.

1) How many years later does Karen wake up from her coma? - 17 years later. 2) When Karen wakes up, How is Megan? - Megan is sixteen years old and she thinks she might be pregnant but does not tell Karen. 3) How is Hamilton and Pam? - Pam and Hamiliton are herion addicts and in the hospital for O.Ding 4) What is wrong with Karen when she wakes up? - Karen is very skinny and she hates it. 5) How did Karen know this was all going to happen? - Through a very realistic dream she had one night.

Tone- Week 3 The mood and tone in this book is depressed. Ever since Karen went into a coma, her friends and family have been depressed and upset. Once Karen snapped out of her coma, everyones mood kind of changed for the better. But once the world was "coming to an end", everyones mood became confused and flustered.

1) How is the world coming to an end? - The world is coming to an end because there is a disease going on and it kills people in their sleep. 2) Does Karens parents die? - Yes, in their sleep. 3) Who comes into place in part 3? - Jared, he is a ghost and talks to Karen and guides her through things. 4) What is Jared to Karen? - Jared is Karens "picked ghost" and he is there to guide her through life. 5) What is wrong with Pam and Hamilton? - They overdosed on herion.

In this section of the book, Karen woke up from a coma and Pam and Ham overdosed on herion. Megan had a daughter named Jane. This book is very good it keeps you on your toes with more and more things coming into place. We are reading up to page 220 by the next meeting.

The images that are used in this book are you can picture it when your head when the supermarket is dead empty and only filled with dead people. The author describes this very detailed and it is important because its showing you how Karens vision has came true. Karen predicted this all to happen. **
 * Topic: Themes/Images (section 4 out of 5 of your text

1) Who is pregnant? - Megan is also pregnant. 2) Whose parents are dead? - All of the friends parents are dead. 3) Who is in the supermarket? - the only people in the supermarket are the animals and birds everyone else is dead 4) Are Richard and Karen still in love? - yes they still love eachother and plan on getting married 5) Does Karen know megan is pregnant? - no karen does not know megan is pregnant

In this section, Megan is pregnant and Karen does not know about it. Everyone is dieing out slowly because of some sickening disease. Jared comes back as a ghost and helps Karen through her life and make her stronger.

Week 5- Last Meeting As this story comes to an end, we think it has a stupid ending. The whole story, you find out in the end, is taken up by Jared's ghost and we get a clear message on what has happened. Jared explains how he put Karen into a coma so she would retain her wide- eyed youthful view to the world and while the others grew old. As everyone was learning about life experiences through Karens coma, they were in the perfect position to see what was going wrong with the world. Basically you find out in the end of the story, that ever since Jared died these six freinds have been charged with saving the world. They however had failed and so, in the most mysterious aspect of the book they are all sent back to the old earth before apocalypse to lead a crusade to save the world.

Discussion Questions 1) Did you like how the book ended? - The book ended in a way that everything was all perfect again. 2) Why did everything happen to these six friends? - Since Jared died they were set out to heal the world, and they failed so bad things happened. 3) What is Jared to everyone? - Jared is a ghost and he is there for his six friends. 4) Did you like this book? - This book was good but I think the ending was cheesy. 5) Does Megan keep her child? What is her name? - Yes she keeps it and her names Jane.