The Future Of Us,By:Jay Asher and Carloyn Mackler (Summer Reading Response)

" The Future of Us"By Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler, is a book about how two teenagers in the year 1996 named Josh and Emma,who were once best friends for many years until Josh confesses his love for Emma in November. This is what drove their close relationship apart. Until Josh's family receives an AOL CD in the mail and makes Josh go over to Emma's house so she will be able to install it on her brand new computer that her dad bought her. But. There is something that they don't know about this particular AOL CD. When they log on they are automatically signed into their facebook accounts. Facebook hasn't even been invented yet, and they are looking at their lives in 2011. Fifteen years into the future.
 
  In this book the characters learn that every reaction causes a chain reaction.Because once Emma got a glimpse of her future, she tried to change things about her life in 1996. For example when she first logged onto her Facebook account she found out that she was married to someone who didn't work, or pay any bills, and he was just using her for her money and she never got to spend any of it. But it seemed that every thing that she did now, drastically effected her future. Sometimes she would check her Facebook page and it would seem as if she is living a happy life, and at other times she wouldn't seem happy with her life at all in the future. Emma spent most of her time trying to perfect her life as a thirty-one year old woman.


   Meanwhile Josh, finds out that he ends up marrying the most popular and richest girl in the school. He spends most of his time trying to build a friendship  with Sydney his future wife. They spent most of their time running errands together for the student council. Thats when they really got to bond and their relationship got stronger. Each day when Josh would get closer to Sydney his life would get better in the future. Josh was a very talented artist, and in his future he ends up working for an Architecture Company.
 In this book I felt that Josh and Emma's Futures are very different from each other. Because Josh has a great life in all of his dreams are coming true and he is married to the girl of his dreams. And Emma's life just seems as if she is lost.

   There's also bad that comes along with getting a glimpse into your future. Because Emma and Josh find out things they shouldn't know about their friends. For example Emma's Best friend Kellan has a daughter who is fourteen going on fifteen in the year 2011, which mean that Kellan had to be pregnant in 1996. Which is not good because they are still juniors in high school, and Kellan had plans of wanting to become a doctor. Which she will probably have to put on hold because of her daughter.


I enjoyed this book because, for many reasons but one of them is because I think that it would be cool to get a glimpse of my life in the next fifteen years and i've always thought about what that would be like to see myself in the future. I also enjoyed this book because I've always believed that every reaction causes a chain reaction, I thought that it was interesting to see the effects of that play out in this book.