The protagonist in my book is 15 year old Tessa. Tessa is in a comma and is anti social. She is in a comma because of an accident in gym class. While Tessa is in the comma she believes that she is dead and in heaven which appears to her as her hometown mall. She has an one older brother named Matt. Tessa doesn't have a best friend or any friends at all. When she was little she hanged out with her neighbor Naomi who convinced Tessa to smoke a cigarette at the age of 10 "She hands me the cigarette, and I put it in my mouth and breathe in" . Both of Tessa's parents work at her hometown mall. Tessa has visions of a memory that she had at a store at her hometown mall while she is in the comma. "I curl up on a bench in front of Cinnabon and crash." "I sleep the dreamless sleep of the dead" " Am I dreaming again, or is the part of where I am lying in a hospital bed the dream, and is this really Heaven" These are all quotes where Tessa wonders if she is really in a dream or not?

"I know the girl on the floor, the one with her neck bent all weird, I know the girl is me.But I'm a too busy soaring toward heaven to care. And the thing that is most surprising the thing you might not know ,is that in the right light, Heaven looks a lot like the mall."

I think that this passage of the book I am reading (Heaven looks a lot like the mall) best describes the Journey in the book. 16 year old Tessa is in a coma because of a gym accident. While Tessa is in a coma she finds herself in heaven (or what she thinks is heaven) which happens to bear a striking resemblance to her hometown mall. In each they explain a memory or a vision that Tessa had at her hometown from when she was 3 to 16. Each paragraph or each memory involves a small conflict that is the journey of Tessa at the mall.