History Literature / MoonCrashSeries

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Megan's mother]] after [[spoiler:Megan herself]] has died.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler: When their food finally runs out, Miranda decides that, instead of withering away in the house and watching her family do the same, she'll head to town with the hope of learning if Lisa had her baby or not. She not only knows, but ''prepares,'' for the fact that she will not have the strength to return home and will die upon reaching the post office.]]

* ScavengerWorld: the United States is on its way to becoming like this.

* BigApplesauce: Set in New York City.

** RobbingTheDead: Julie is appropriately horrified when a man [[DrivenToSuicide falls to the sidewalk]] right in front of them and Alex immediately starts looking for valuables when the man isn't even dead yet.

!!This series includes the following tropes
!!Tropes in ''Life As We Knew It''

* NobodyPoops: Averted. One of the major concerns is how to deal with everyone's bodily wastes.

* ThePlague: Another disaster on top of everything else.

!!Tropes in ''The Dead and the Gone'':

!!Tropes in ''This World We Live In'':

!!Tropes in ''The Shade of the Moon'':

* ApocalypticLog: Miranda begins her diary about a week before the asteroid crashes into earth, after which she details how her family survives the aftermath. The total entries actually span multiple diaries, journals, and even just spare sheets of paper, although no change is ever shown to the audience to indicate when this happens.

* IllGirl: Bri gets adult-onset asthma after volcanoes cause the air to be full of ash.

* IllGirl: Miranda, Sammi, and Megan's friend [[PosthumousCharacter Becky]].

%%* TraumaCongaLine: Little by little, Miranda's life gets worse.

* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Alex's parents are presumed to be dead at the beginning of the story, though nobody really knows for sure.

%%* PromotionToParent

%%* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: [[spoiler: Bri]]

%%* AdultFear

* AdultFear: All over the place as 17-year-old Alex Morales is forced to be in charge of his two younger sisters and struggles to keep them alive and safe in a city descending into anarchy.

* ApocalypticLog: Miranda begins her diary about a week after the asteroid crashes into the moon, after which the rest of the journal is detailing how they survive.

* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted. Miranda's mother tells Mrs. Nesbitt to get lots of Tampax for herself and Miranda. Miranda also makes note in her diary of having her period when she gets it. [[spoiler:Miranda also doesn't get it for quite a while when their food supplies run particularly low, [[FridgeBrilliance and this is most likely a hint as to how badly she is starved]].]]

%%* ApocalypticLog: Miranda's diary.

* BittersweetEnding: TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt has happened, [[spoiler:Megan, Peter, and Mrs. Nesbitt have died]], it's questionable at best whether or not [[spoiler:Miranda's dad, stepmother, and half-sibling are alive]], [[spoiler:the whole family is starving]], and [[spoiler:it's clear that things will never get back to normal]], but [[spoiler:Miranda's mother and siblings are alive, Miranda herself has lived to see her 17th birthday, her whole family is getting enough food to survive, and it genuinely looks like they're going to make it through the winter]].

* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: Gabe was born on Christmas Day, while countless people are dying. People are willing to make sacrifices for him to survive and are moved by his existence.

* AfterTheEnd: The bulk of the novels take place after the Moon is knocked closer to the eart by an asteroid, resulting in a drastically altered climate and much more extreme weather and tides bringing down most of civilization.

* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: It would take a downright gigantic object to move the Moon out of its orbit, probably at least as big as Ceres (the largest asteroid, now considered a dwarf planet) and far larger than the one in the story. Even if that did happen, it's more likely that the moon would break up and [[AlienSky form a ring around the earth]], rather than simply moving closer.

* ApocalypticLog: Miranda's diary.

* AuthorAvatar: Miranda's mother.

* CoolOldLady: Mrs. Nesbitt

* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Even when the apocalypse is going on, apparently.
* HollywoodAtheist: Miranda.

* PathOfInspiration

* ReallyGetsAround: Sammi.

* TraumaCongaLine: Little by little, Miranda's life gets worse.
* TwoFirstNames: Peter Elliott.
* VisitByDivorcedDad

* PromotionToParent

* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: [[spoiler: Bri]]
* TheUnfavorite: Alex dislikes Julie for most of the book.
** However, towards the end of the book and all through the next one, he is shown to be fiercely protective of her and obviously loves her very much. This is most likely because Julie undergoes great maturity throughout the story (which means she is no longer the brat Alex disliked so much) as well as her being [[spoiler: the only family Alex has left.]]

* ''The Shade of the Moon'' Miranda's brother, Jon, lives with his step mother and half brother in a city populated by those with skills that helped them weather TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, while dealing with old guilt and the knowledge that most of his family is forced to live in the slums for those who aren't as useful.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: While the president is never named, it's pretty obvious that he's supposed to be UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush, what with Laura calling him an idiot whenever they hear of him.

* AuthorAvatar: Miranda's mother

* HollywoodAtheist: Miranda

* BirthDeathJuxtaposition

* BittersweetEnding: TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt has happened, [[spoiler:Megan, Peter, and Mrs. Nesbitt have died]], it's questionable at best whether or not [[spoiler:Miranda's dad, stepmother, and half-sibling are alive]], [[spoiler:the whole family is starving]], and [[spoiler:it's clear that things will never get back to normal]], but [[spoiler:Miranda's mother and siblings are alive, Miranda herself has lived to see her 17th birthday, her whole family is getting a massive amount of food, and it genuinely looks like they're going to make it through the winter]].

* MarriedToTheJob: Dr. Peter Elliot; especially [[TearJerker sad]] when [[spoiler:he dies trying to heal people at the hospital.]]

* RetailRiot: Miranda uses a shopping cart to attack a woman who is trying to steal a food item from Mrs. Nesbitt.

* TwoFirstNames: Peter Elliott

* ChildlessDystopia: While teens and older children are thriving now, there are a lot of people who didn't survive the initial chaos of the moon changing orbit. The current living conditions in the country also reduced a lot of peoples odds of conceiving. Gabe is one of the few small children in the enclave, and Miranda is one of the only pregnant girls for miles. Lisa worries that she may be booted from the enclave just because someone who wants a child expects her to leave Gabe with someone who could provide for him, and [[spoiler:Miranda is told her child died within minutes of it's birth so it could be given to a influential family that couldn't conceive.]]

* FromBadToWorse: Things are disfunctional, but bearable for most prior to the soccer game with White Birch. When Tyler takes advantage of one of the grub players suddenly dying to unfairly win the first game the enclave had a chance of losing, a riot breaks out, resulting in the deaths and disappearances of several hundred people. [[spoiler:Laura is among them.]]

* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:Laura is hung in front of the White Birch school and shot when she tries to keep her students from being taken away after the riot. Lisa later shoots herself and leaves a suicide note with false information to keep anyone else from being suspected when they steal Miranda's baby back.]]
* UrbanSegregation: The enclave has air purification systems in it's buildings, food, decent education, and though everyone old enough to work does, most of the jobs are pleasant. The surrounding towns are filthy, and dangerous. The people living there work long, hard hours and get very little pay. There is only as much food as in necessary, the air is filthy, and not a single building can be locked.

* WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency: Sarah is the only kid in the enclave who seems to realize that being less privileged does not make a person inhuman. Jon, most of whose family is less privileged than himself, cannot say the same, but still acts like he's better than many of the other clavers.

''Life As We Knew It'' is a SpeculativeFiction [[YoungAdultLiterature teen novel]] by Susan Beth Pfeffer, told from the point of view of a teenage girl named Miranda Evans in the form of her diary, which she begins writing in [[NextSundayAD May of an unspecified year]]. Initially, things are normal, and Miranda is looking forward to the upcoming prom and her dad and stepmother have told her that they want her to be the godmother of the child they are expecting. Everyone is eagerly anticipating an interesting astronomical event: an incoming meteor that is supposed to crash into the moon. Miranda just looks at it as another excuse for extra homework assignments. However, most people are looking at it as a once in a lifetime chance to see an event like this. Miranda's mother has even baked cookies in honor of the occasion. But no one anticipates the moon being knocked closer in orbit to the earth and the havoc it causes. The climate is drastically altered, the coastal areas are hit with tsunamis, the supermarkets are closing as food runs short, the price of gas has risen to over ten dollars, electricity is no longer a guarantee, and the lists of the dead are expanding. It's TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, though no one wants to admit it.

* GoodCounterpart: The Catholic Church compared to the church in the first book. More specifically, [[TheGoodShepherd Father Franco]] and [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Father Malrooney]] to [[SinisterMinister Reverend Marshall]].

%%* VisitByDivorcedDad