How does Miranda attempt to cope with her changing world? Chapter Six

Miranda's method of coping with the changing world is to attempt to keep as much normality as possible. She refuses to listen to the disasters and death lists on the radio, preferring to pretend that nothing bad is happening anywhere else. She does not want to constantly think about death, and says she did not begin her diary for it to become a list of death. She still tries to value friendship and compassion for strangers, and is angry when her mom challenges this because it reminds her that things have changed. She wants school to continue as normal, and resents the fact that it is different now there are fewer students there. She worries about her math grade and is shocked when her mother does not care about it. She goes to Miller's Pond to attempt to continue with a sense of normal life, keeping up her swimming practice as if there might still be a swimming team one day. When Dan is interested in a relationship Miranda welcomes this as a sense of being a normal teenager again.