Before I Fall
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Prologue Chapter 1  Chapter 2  Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Epilogue
Themes
All Themes Fate vs. Agency Popularity, Status, and Social Capital Cruelty and Loyalty in Friendship and Love Rebirth, Renewal, and Redemption
Quotes
Characters
All Characters Samantha Kingston Lindsay Edgecombe Elody Ally Harris Izzy Kingston Rob Kokran Kent McFuller Juliet Sykes Anna Cartullo Tara Flute Mr. Daimler Ms. Winters Vicky Hallinan Patrick
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Before I Fall

by

Lauren Oliver
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Rob Kokran Character Analysis

Samantha’s hot and popular but cruel, vapid boyfriend Rob has been pressuring her to have sex with him for months, and on Cupid Day, Sam finally feels prepared to lose her virginity to Rob. She tells herself that Rob is what she has always wanted—someone cool, attractive, and with social capital to boot. Sam ignores the fact that Rob wouldn’t give her the time of day for years, and actually teased her actively when they were younger. As Sam travels through the time loop and repeats Cupid Day again and again, she has to figure out how to navigate her relationship with Rob as it deteriorates more and more each “day.” As Sam learns more about herself and begins the attempt to become a better person, to help people other than herself, and to figure out what kind of person she wants to be—and to be remembered as—she realizes that Rob simply isn’t part of the picture.

Rob Kokran Quotes in Before I Fall

The Before I Fall quotes below are all either spoken by Rob Kokran or refer to Rob Kokran. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Fate vs. Agency Theme Icon
).
Chapter 1  Quotes

I know some of you are thinking maybe I deserved it. Maybe I shouldn’t have sent that rose to Juliet or dumped my drink on her at the party. Maybe I shouldn’t have copped off Lauren Lornet’s quiz. Maybe I shouldn’t have said those things to Kent. There are probably some of you who think I deserved it because I was going to let Rob go all the way—because I wasn’t going to save myself. But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you: is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really so much worse than what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do?

Related Characters: Samantha Kingston (speaker), Rob Kokran, Kent McFuller, Juliet Sykes, Lauren Lornet
Fate vs. Agency Theme Icon
Cruelty and Loyalty in Friendship and Love Theme Icon
Page Number: 80-81
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Rob Kokran Quotes in Before I Fall

The Before I Fall quotes below are all either spoken by Rob Kokran or refer to Rob Kokran. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Fate vs. Agency Theme Icon
).
Chapter 1  Quotes

I know some of you are thinking maybe I deserved it. Maybe I shouldn’t have sent that rose to Juliet or dumped my drink on her at the party. Maybe I shouldn’t have copped off Lauren Lornet’s quiz. Maybe I shouldn’t have said those things to Kent. There are probably some of you who think I deserved it because I was going to let Rob go all the way—because I wasn’t going to save myself. But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you: is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really so much worse than what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do?

Related Characters: Samantha Kingston (speaker), Rob Kokran, Kent McFuller, Juliet Sykes, Lauren Lornet
Fate vs. Agency Theme Icon
Cruelty and Loyalty in Friendship and Love Theme Icon
Page Number: 80-81
Explanation and Analysis:
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