Chase Ambrose is a thirteen year old middle school kid who wakes up to find himself in excruciating pain which he describes as, “Everything hurts, especially my neck and left shoulder” (Korman 2). He finds out that he has fallen off of his roof and has forgotten everything before the accident. He returns to school and notices that many people have different reactions to his return and a girl he waves to pours her yogurt on him out of nowhere. Which makes Chase question not only who he is, but who he was.

Korman does a great job with the characterization by narrating the story not only from Chase’s perspective but from the perspectives of all the characters within the book. Giving great insight to the characters background and their thoughts along with the actions and choices they make throughout the book. This gives great characterization in the story by putting the reader in the characters shoes and allowing you understand what the characters do and why they do it.

 The structure is like any other structure starting with introducing the characters in the book and going on to the conflict where Chase is trying to find out who he was and so on. What is interesting within the book is the obstacle/antagonist within the book who stops Chase in finding out who he was and who he wants to be. The story within the book is one that many people will see teaches a great lesson about why you should really consider what you do in life since you only get one shot at it. Chase sees his accident as a great opportunity stating, “Falling on my head was the best thing that ever happened to me” (Korman 239).

Chase encounters a lot of obstacles trying to regain his memories, but the thing he truly struggles with is finding people he can trust and people who can trust him because of who he was before. Although the book seems long, I can guarantee that having a middle school student read it would teach them the meaning of how their choices can affect others and why they should think carefully about the choices they make.