A Chain Reaction

Author's Note: Sometimes the causes and effects of a book aren't always so simple. In Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer, it's almost as if the causes and effects are running in a circle, always coming back to the plot, the large Meteor hitting the Earth causing it to be knocked off it's orbit and come way to close to Earth.  It's chaos.

A meteor is supposed to hit the moon, the scientists are having a field day and millions of billions of people are watching with telescopes and binoculars.  The air is filled with anticipation.  It hits, but something is wrong.  Miranda is now living in a world were the moon is off it's gravitational pull. 

There's an meteor set to hit the moon.  What's supposed to be an amazing day in history turned into a chaotic mess.  The scientists miscalculate the size of the meteor and it's much larger than they expected.  The meteor ends up crashing it into the moon messing up the orbit and pushing it too close to the Earth.  

The moon being closer to the Earth does much more than just give the world an eerie close up view.  The moon being too close also makes the tides much much larger, full countries and even a continent (Australia) are being submerged.  Most all of the dormant volcanoes are erupting, causing the Earth to become covered in a hazy gray fog.  This book has so many causes within the effects it's a chain reaction.