"ME BEFORE YOU"

BY: JOJO MOYES

Submitted by: CLINTDELL M. ORESCO
Subject: UGE 1
I. AUTHOR’S BIOGRAPHY

Jojo Moyes Biography

Jojo Moyes (named after the Beatles' song) was born in 1969 and grew up in
London. After a varied career including stints as a minicab controller, typer
of braille statements for blind people for NatWest, and brochure writer for
Club 18-30 she did a degree at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College,
London University. In 1992 She won a bursary financed by The Independent
newspaper to attend the postgraduate newspaper journalism course at City
University, and apart from 1994 when she worked in Hong Kong for the
Sunday Morning Post, she worked at The Independent for 10 years, including
stints as Assistant news editor and Arts and Media Correspondent.

She has been a full time novelist since 2002, when her first book, Sheltering
Rain was published. Jojo has twice won the Romantic Novelists' Association
Novel of the Year Award: in 2011 for The Last Letter From Your Lover and
in 2003 for Foreign Fruit. The Ship of Brides and Silver Bay were shortlisted
for the 2005 and 2007 RNA award and Silver Bay was shortlisted for the
inaugural Good Housekeeping 2007 Book of the Year award.

Her 2012 novel, Me Before You was nominated for Book of the Year at the
UK Galaxy Book Awards. The book has also been adapted into a movie and
was released in June 2016.Moyes lives on a farm in Saffron Walden, Essex
with her husband, journalist Charles Arthur, and their three children.

II. CHARACTER TABLE

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I had never
considered that
you might miss
a job the way
Louisa (Lou) Clark you miss a limb
– a constant,
The main protagonist reflexive thing. I
of the novel, Lou is a Lou becomes the caregiver
hadn’t thought
resourceful, cheerful for Will Traynor and tries to
that as well as
girl who has been show him that life is still
the obvious
wasting her potential in worth living, even though
fears about
her small hometown Will suffers from
money, and
because she feels quadriplegia. Lou is endlessly
Louisa (Lou) your future,
responsible for taking optimistic, eventually falling
Clark losing your job
care of her mother in love with Will and the
would make
(Josie), her father spark of adventure he adds
you feel
(Bernard), and her to her life. With Will’s
inadequate, and
sister, Treena. She is encouragement, Lou fulfills
a bit useless.
also stuck in a long- her dreams of going to
term relationship with university to study fashion.
her fitness-obsessed
boyfriend Patrick.
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Will is the second main “You were just
character of the novel. looking at my
In the midst of his high- photographs.
stakes, thrill-seeking Wondering how
life as a financier, Will awful it must be
suffers a traffic to live like that
accident that leaves and then turn
Will keeps up a sarcastic and
him paralyzed in a into a cripple.”
difficult demeanor, but it’s
wheelchair. Will has
later revealed that this hides
given up on ever living
a heart of gold. Though Will
a fulfilling life again
Will Traynor and Louisa fall in love, Will
and wants his parents,
can’t change his mind about
Camilla and Steven
the life he wants to lead. He
Traynor, to allow him
leaves Lou with the funds to
to go through with
live up to her potential.
assisted suicide.
Camilla hires Louisa
Clark to try and
convince Will that
there are still good
experiences available
for him.

Katrina Lou’s younger sister, Though the relationship “Well, this is

(Treena) Treena is considered between the sisters is actual life or
Clark the clever one of the strained, they truly care for death, after all,
family. Lou has always one another. Treena and you’re
felt stuck in Treena’s supports Lou’s plan to show locked into this
shadow, a feeling Will the best in life, and man’s life every
which persists even continues to be a source of day, locked into
after Treena gets comfort for Lou throughout his weird secret.
pregnant with her son, the novel. That’s got to
Thomas, and has to create a kind of
leave university to live false intimacy.
with their parents Either that or
again. you’re getting
some weird
Florence
Nightingale
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complex.”

Camilla’s
greatest fear is
losing her son,
especially to
suicide, and she
Camilla’s greatest fear is hires Lou to
Will’s mother, Camilla losing her son, especially to make sure that
has a cold exterior that suicide, and she hires Lou to doesn’t happen.
hides the immense make sure that doesn’t Though Lou is
pain she has felt ever happen. Though Lou is intimidated by
Camilla
since her son had his intimidated by Camilla’s high Camilla’s high
Traynor
accident. Her job as a class life and career as a class life and
magistrate also gives court magistrate, the two career as a
her a bleak outlook on women share an court
life. understanding because of magistrate, the
their pact to keep Will alive. two women
share an
understanding
because of their
pact to keep
Will alive.

"But I want him

to live if he
wants to live. If
he doesn't, then
Will’s primary physical by forcing him
Will’s primary physical
caregiver, Nathan cares to carry on [...]
caregiver, Nathan cares for
Nathan for all of the health we become just
all of the health issues that
issues that Will’s another shitty
Will’s paralysis has caused.
paralysis has caused. bunch of people
taking away his
choices."
III. SYNOPSIS
Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there
are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in
The Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her
boyfriend Patrick.

What Lou doesn’t know is she’s about to lose her job or that knowing
what’s coming is what keeps her sane.

Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live.
He knows everything feels very small and rather joyless now and he
knows exactly how he’s going to put a stop to that.

What Will doesn’t know is that Lou is about to burst into his world in a
riot of colour. And neither of them knows they’re going to change the
other for all time.
IV. REFLECTIONS
1. Which character from the novel do you admire the
most? Explain your reasons.
- I admired Lou for being a hardworking and a independent women. Lou
got a lots of responsibilities and for being a persevere girl, she situated
in a situation which makes her feel lonely , but through her strong traits
she overcome all of it. Even she lost her love she continually live her life
and become the most sweetest girl i ever known.

2. What do you think is the theme of the novel?

Elaborate.
- Obviouslythe story is all about love, about a girl falling inlove to a rich
quadripelgic guy. But Jojos main purpose of its book is to inform and
give sympathy to the people experiencing the same Disabilities.

3. If there is something you want to change in the

plotline, what would it be and why?
- forme the plot is well organized but, i just want to give suggestion
About the scene where lou and will both part ways, its so common and
i think most romantic stories are using this. I just want a dynamic and
tragic scene for that.

4. In your opinion, what is the purpose of the author in

writing this novel?
-The main goal is to raise awareness about the real situation and the
real feelings of people experiencing disabilities especially having
quadripelgic, the care and love they need, also the sympathy they want
in order to continue living, fighting for their lives and pursuing new
purpose in life.

5. What are the things that you have learned from the
novel?
-The lesson this book taught me is that sometimes life has other plans
for you, and while we are here living, we should take what we can from
life and do amazing things with it.