We need to ask ourselves questions about love and our relationships. Love may be the missing piece we are looking for. Analyzing this novel through the psychoanalytic lens and reader response theory, it is evident that this novel has many redeeming qualities that make it appropriate for a 4U audience in a Christian school setting. Although vivid in its description of the injuries sustained in the accident, this novel is suitable for a classroom context for mature students who will take the novel seriously. There are important life lessons that can be learned. Character building lessons about life and relationships can be learned from this