When comparing Here We Aren’t, So Quickly by Johnathan Sofran Foer and Wake Up Call by Megan McGuire one can easily find the similar qualities of evolving relationships and learning from experience. There are major life crises in both stories that cause drastic changes in the writers’ lives which alter them in ways they don’t notice until much later. The most notable commonalities are the death of loved ones and falling away from the family they still have left around them. Here We Aren’t, So Quickly is a glimpse in to the future, whereas Wake Up Call is a memory of the past, however both stories inspire an individual to take a deep look within themselves to find their strengths and weaknesses and learn from them before they end up on a road…show more content… She begins by quickly summarizing the relationship she had with her father through a single day experience meant to make the reader feel all warm and fuzzy inside. She received all the love and support she could ever desire from her father, however, he dies when she is still at a young age and the tone of the story turns negative very quickly. She is thrown in to a world where she must rely on herself because her mother is inattentive and unsupportive, she spends all of her money on frivolous things and doesn’t pay the bills or take care of her children. Megan isn’t a priority for her mother, who seems to be only concerned about her own happiness. At one point while living out of a duffel bag at her mother’s friend’s house she said “I can’t stand it here. I don’t like this guy, Mom’s friend or not” (McGuire 382).
Throughout Here We Aren’t So Quickly the tone continuously changes from uplifting and happy to serious and depressing. For instance, in the beginning of the relationship with his wife he states “We left handprints in a moss garden in Kyoto, and got each other off under a towel in Jaffa” (Foer 341). Then later in the relationship he says “We had sex to have orgasms” (Foer 342) and “We tried spending more time not together” (Foer 342). He does this to not sugar coat the experience for the reader, but to draw them in and invoke the same feelings he is having as they occur in his thought