Miranda was one of Via's best friends and loved Auggie as a little brother. She gifted a astronauts helmet to Auggie when he was real young and he rarely took it off. In order to get through a difficult divorce Miranda's mother sent her to summer camp. While there she began telling the girls that she had a big house, a dog named Daisy and a brother who was deformed. She became very popular among the girls at summer camp.
"There was a part of me that felt a little entitled to this lie"(pg237).
When she returned to school in the fall she stopped talking to Via all together and talked about her behind her back to the other girls. Miranda noticed that Olivia was auditioning for the lead part in the school play so she tried out and got the part. During the night of the show Miranda's family had prior commitments and couldn't be at the play. She did notice Olivia's family out there anxiously awaiting the start of the play.
Miranda told the director of the play that she couldn't go on and that Via would have to take her place. "I feel sick, said trying to sound sick" (pg 244).
Miranda knowing full well that she was the best person for the part felt that it was all for nothing when her family couldn't be there to see it. She so envied the relationship that Olivia had with her family a loving caring unit.
Miranda was once again apart of the Pullman's life which she so desperately missed. Isabelle invited her for a celebratory dinner to which Via came over and insisted that she come.
Miranda made a few mistakes during summer camp to make her out to be someone she wasn't I don't believe that she did this in any way to be malicious. I think that she felt like she was apart of this family and her real family life was such a mess that she adopted the Pullman's reality as her own.
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