| Stage | Character | Chp. | Excerpt from the novel |
| Denial | Jenna | 6 | Jenna doesn’t go out of her house when andrea asks her to a party |
| Anger | Micheal | 9 | Michael gets angry at amy’s house |
| Bargaining | Micheal | 3 | Michael feels bad for jenna now that he killed her father on accident |
| Depression | Jenna | 6 | After her father’s death things don’t seem the same anymore |
| Acceptance | Jenna | 25 | She accepts and forgive michael at the end of story |