Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin
Name: Alli
Date: February 9th
Time: Two Hours
Pages: 159 - 276
Total Pages: 117
Name: Alli
Date: February 9th
Time: Two Hours
Pages: 159 - 276
Total Pages: 117
Question One: How did what you read today make you feel?
Response:
In the last part of Elsewhere a lot happens. After Liz stops being depressed she gets an Avocation which involves dogs. Liz turns out to be very good at it and after her first day she meets Sadie who becomes her new dog. Liz becomes happy and friendly, interacting with her friends and family in Elsewhere. Reading this made me happy and excited for Liz because she was deprived of so much when she died and wasting away her time at the Observation Decks deprived her of even more.
Liz begins to enjoy her life on Elseewhere and gradually stops dwelling on her family still on Earth until she remembers her father's birthday. She remembers that she had bought a perfect sea green sweater months before with her own money. She wants to make sure he gets it because if she doesn't it will lie beneath the floorboards in her closet on Earth. I thought that this was a very sweet motion of Liz and would help her father cope with her death. Unfortunately to be able to do this Liz must make illegal Contact with Earth so she puts on her scuba gear and dives one mile to the Well. When she gets there she tries to make Contact with her brother, telling him where she hid the sweater but gets pulled out by by Owen Welles who is from the Elsewhere Bureau of Supernatural Crime and Contact. He enforces that no one makes Contact with the living and so when Liz watches her brother try to tell her dad where the sweater is she realizes that he had misheard her. Her father gets mad and thinks that Liz's brother was lying so he almost slaps him. Liz becomes heartbroken and I was disappointed as well because even though Liz tried to help her family it only turned out worse than before.
Owen (the detective) thinks that trying to give a sweater to her dad was a very unimportant cause, but when Liz leaves Owen dives down to the well to tell her brother the correct location of the sweater. He realizes that Liz wanted to move on and by stopping her from making the dive he hindered her from that process. Liz's brother gets the correct information to where the sweater is hidden and gives it to her dad.
Now suspended from his job Owen decides to tell Liz that her father received the sweater. Liz was very grateful and asked him to go to Thanksgiving dinner with Betty, Curtis, Thandi, and all of her friends. Liz and Owen's relationship kicks off and from there on they become close friends and eventually a couple. I thought that this was good for Liz because she needed a friend and Owen made her very happy, teaching her how to drive and even getting a dog as well.
Question Two: What has surprised you in this book?
Response:
One thing that surprised me was when Owen's wife, Emily, from Earth dies and arrives at Elsewhere. Owen chooses Emily over Liz leaving Liz heartbroken. When I read this I was surprised at the turn of events. It had a lot of results, one being Liz deciding to go back to Earth early, leaving her family and friends on Elsewhere. As she is making the journey to Earth along the River, Liz rethinks her decision and wants to go back, but despite her efforts to turn around she only sinks to the bottom of the Ocean.
In Elsewhere, Liz's family and friends are very concerned and go out to look for Liz. Liz sees them and uses all of her strength to swim to the surface, reunited with her family and friends. I believed this was a good decision because all of her friends and family back on Elsewhere would have missed her and she would have missed them, and even if she had gone back to Earth she would have never seen her family again.
Back in Elsewhere Owen chooses Liz over Emily and they become young together with their family and friends. When Liz is eight she receives a letter from her best friend on Earth, Zooey. She was going to get married and wanted to invite Liz to the wedding, so Owen, now the head of his department, suggests they dive down to the Well and make a toast. Unfortunately the toast is unsuccessful but Liz gets to talk to her brother. She had insisted that they could talk instead of getting anyone else and I thought that this was very nice for Liz so that she could see her family again and talk to her brother. I also thought that it was good because Liz never was able to say goodbye to them.
When Liz is retiring from her Avocation someone comes to meet her at her work. His name is Amadou Bonamy and he was the cabdriver who had hit Liz and caused her death. He had come to confess and ask for forgiveness from Liz. She forgives him immediately, saying that she knew he was a good man in the wrong place at the wrong time. While his appearance surprised me it also was a very nice ending. I though t was a good compromise, bringing back a memory from Earth but also allowing Liz to reflect back onto her time in Elsewhere.
Overall I thought that this book was very intriguing and I definitely will read it again. I loved the author's style of writing and enjoyed her idea of the afterlife. I hope that she will write more books and they will be just as good.
Response:
In the last part of Elsewhere a lot happens. After Liz stops being depressed she gets an Avocation which involves dogs. Liz turns out to be very good at it and after her first day she meets Sadie who becomes her new dog. Liz becomes happy and friendly, interacting with her friends and family in Elsewhere. Reading this made me happy and excited for Liz because she was deprived of so much when she died and wasting away her time at the Observation Decks deprived her of even more.
Liz begins to enjoy her life on Elseewhere and gradually stops dwelling on her family still on Earth until she remembers her father's birthday. She remembers that she had bought a perfect sea green sweater months before with her own money. She wants to make sure he gets it because if she doesn't it will lie beneath the floorboards in her closet on Earth. I thought that this was a very sweet motion of Liz and would help her father cope with her death. Unfortunately to be able to do this Liz must make illegal Contact with Earth so she puts on her scuba gear and dives one mile to the Well. When she gets there she tries to make Contact with her brother, telling him where she hid the sweater but gets pulled out by by Owen Welles who is from the Elsewhere Bureau of Supernatural Crime and Contact. He enforces that no one makes Contact with the living and so when Liz watches her brother try to tell her dad where the sweater is she realizes that he had misheard her. Her father gets mad and thinks that Liz's brother was lying so he almost slaps him. Liz becomes heartbroken and I was disappointed as well because even though Liz tried to help her family it only turned out worse than before.
Owen (the detective) thinks that trying to give a sweater to her dad was a very unimportant cause, but when Liz leaves Owen dives down to the well to tell her brother the correct location of the sweater. He realizes that Liz wanted to move on and by stopping her from making the dive he hindered her from that process. Liz's brother gets the correct information to where the sweater is hidden and gives it to her dad.
Now suspended from his job Owen decides to tell Liz that her father received the sweater. Liz was very grateful and asked him to go to Thanksgiving dinner with Betty, Curtis, Thandi, and all of her friends. Liz and Owen's relationship kicks off and from there on they become close friends and eventually a couple. I thought that this was good for Liz because she needed a friend and Owen made her very happy, teaching her how to drive and even getting a dog as well.
Question Two: What has surprised you in this book?
Response:
One thing that surprised me was when Owen's wife, Emily, from Earth dies and arrives at Elsewhere. Owen chooses Emily over Liz leaving Liz heartbroken. When I read this I was surprised at the turn of events. It had a lot of results, one being Liz deciding to go back to Earth early, leaving her family and friends on Elsewhere. As she is making the journey to Earth along the River, Liz rethinks her decision and wants to go back, but despite her efforts to turn around she only sinks to the bottom of the Ocean.
In Elsewhere, Liz's family and friends are very concerned and go out to look for Liz. Liz sees them and uses all of her strength to swim to the surface, reunited with her family and friends. I believed this was a good decision because all of her friends and family back on Elsewhere would have missed her and she would have missed them, and even if she had gone back to Earth she would have never seen her family again.
Back in Elsewhere Owen chooses Liz over Emily and they become young together with their family and friends. When Liz is eight she receives a letter from her best friend on Earth, Zooey. She was going to get married and wanted to invite Liz to the wedding, so Owen, now the head of his department, suggests they dive down to the Well and make a toast. Unfortunately the toast is unsuccessful but Liz gets to talk to her brother. She had insisted that they could talk instead of getting anyone else and I thought that this was very nice for Liz so that she could see her family again and talk to her brother. I also thought that it was good because Liz never was able to say goodbye to them.
When Liz is retiring from her Avocation someone comes to meet her at her work. His name is Amadou Bonamy and he was the cabdriver who had hit Liz and caused her death. He had come to confess and ask for forgiveness from Liz. She forgives him immediately, saying that she knew he was a good man in the wrong place at the wrong time. While his appearance surprised me it also was a very nice ending. I though t was a good compromise, bringing back a memory from Earth but also allowing Liz to reflect back onto her time in Elsewhere.
Overall I thought that this book was very intriguing and I definitely will read it again. I loved the author's style of writing and enjoyed her idea of the afterlife. I hope that she will write more books and they will be just as good.
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