in think that In A Heart Beat, the statement about life that Loretta Ellsworth is trying to get to the reader is that you never know when your life might end so you have to live your life the way that you want to and not let people control everything you do.
in the book Eagan loves figure skating but her mom pushes her to the limit. she has no time for making friends or doing homework, her mom has made sure that her whole life is dedicated to figure skating. when shes in a competition she hits her head on a board and dies right there. that shows what the author is trying to tell us she never told her mom how she felt and she always talked about the future and how things would change when she grew up. she never knew that she would die at such a young age.
then there is Amelia who is waiting for someone to die and donate their heat to her. she has a bad heart and cant even walk up a flight of stairs on her own. she feels really bad, but now she gets to really live her life!
Loretta Ellsworth wants us to be grateful for what we have: a life. she wants us to know that any second it could end. and she wants use to think about our own luife and what we are going through.
