Tuesday, January 17, 2012

ELSEWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS A GOOD BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So I just finished reading this book over the weekend. And it was really good. So basically it starts with a girl on a ship and she doesn't know why she's here or the events leading up to her arrival on the ship. She later finds out that she was killed in a hit and run and this boat is taking her to elsewhere. Which is a place where all the dead go and they age backwards until there 7 days old and are sent back to earth to live life again. It's a really interesting book the main character Liz is in denial when she finds out she's was killed, and if you died at a young age you have the opportunity to go back to earth and live life all over again. And Liz thinks because she was killed early there's no point in living life. But she finds out later that even if she might be getting younger as time passes her life is still worth living.

In this book all Lizzy wants more than anything is to grow up. So that's why she decides it would be better just for her to go back to earth and live life all over again. But instead of going down the river leading into earth and be re-born she decided it would be better just to live the life she has now. Because when she goes back to earth she will no longer be Lizzy, she'd be someone else. And she after thinking this through she decides not to go to earth and stay as Liz. And she also realizes when she goes back to earth she won't remember her old family, or be a part of them anymore.

I think this book has to do with growing up. Everyone wants to grow up and be able to do stuff that we can't do because were to young. And we forget about our youth and how important it is to us. Lizzy is mortified with the idea of aging backwards. All she wants to do is grow up. Do all the adult things in life. And now because she's aging backwards she'll stay a kid forever. And that's the reason Lizzy wants to leave elsewhere. Because she wan'ts to grow up and not stay a kid. but Lizzy then realizes that she is technically growing up. she isn't growing up physically but she realizes that in her life she has done some amazing things and life isn't how long you live. It's how you spend it.               

1 comment:

  1. When you said “But instead of going down the river leading into earth and be re-born she decided it would be better just to live the life she has now." I thought it was very emotional and meaningful to Lizzy, who did not know what was real and what was fake. What she did know was she missed her family.

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