I am currently in the middle of the book Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin and I really like it so far. There a lot of interesting elements to it because it's not exactly what I would call normal realistic fiction. Elsewhere is about a girl who dies and goes to not heaven, but a place called Elsewhere, a whole nother world where you age backwards until you become a baby again and are shipped off to earth to start another life. In the book, Liz is surprised at the things she finds in this Elsewhere, and also how they are surprisingly similar to things that were back on earth.
In Elsewhere, Elizabeth finds that there aren't really many differences from Earth, except of course, that she is dead. Not that far into the book, Liz finds someone that she likes, a boy named Owen. She really likes him, and found that living (or dying) in this new place wasn't really so bad after all. I think that it was good that the author added things in Elsewhere that Liz would like, because it's not like she's just being accustomed to, it's something that she actually liked, and I think that that symbolizes hope. Even in these tough times, these times where she didn't even know what state of being she was in, it's a little spark of hope that things could actually go well.
Another thing the author did that I liked in the book was make have people age backwards once they reach Elsewhere. I feel that if everyone gets younger instead of older, it kind of allows a happier feeling into the atmosphere. Also, if most people die at an old age, it allows people to live sort of a double life. As for someone who's young though, like Liz herself, it's a bit of a downer because she died when she was fifteen so she only got another fifteen years to be in Elsewhere. On the other hand, the idea of aging backwards was really interesting to be, and something that I never thought about for one of the possibilities of what happens when you die.
In Elsewhere, Elizabeth finds that there aren't really many differences from Earth, except of course, that she is dead. Not that far into the book, Liz finds someone that she likes, a boy named Owen. She really likes him, and found that living (or dying) in this new place wasn't really so bad after all. I think that it was good that the author added things in Elsewhere that Liz would like, because it's not like she's just being accustomed to, it's something that she actually liked, and I think that that symbolizes hope. Even in these tough times, these times where she didn't even know what state of being she was in, it's a little spark of hope that things could actually go well.
Another thing the author did that I liked in the book was make have people age backwards once they reach Elsewhere. I feel that if everyone gets younger instead of older, it kind of allows a happier feeling into the atmosphere. Also, if most people die at an old age, it allows people to live sort of a double life. As for someone who's young though, like Liz herself, it's a bit of a downer because she died when she was fifteen so she only got another fifteen years to be in Elsewhere. On the other hand, the idea of aging backwards was really interesting to be, and something that I never thought about for one of the possibilities of what happens when you die.
This is a very interesting post Sydney. I like how you discuss the ideas of the book and how you feel about them. It really makes the reader of the blog more into the blog post. I also like how you talked about the elements in a structure. Nice work.
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