Estee+Sci+Fi

=Elsewhere = By Gabrielle Zeviin

Verso:

One day a fifteen year old girl named, Liz Hall, dies in a bike accident. The next day she wakes up on a boat clueless. On the boat she meets all sorts of people, even her grandmother she never got to meet. She is in Elsewhere the world you go when you die. The world makes you go backwards instead of forwards until you reincarnate. Liz doesn’t want to go backwards she only wants to go forward. How will she get back to earth before she is read? Find out in // Elsewhere //by Gabrielle Zeviin, the novel about life and death. Science Technology:

The science theme in my book is the fact there is another world. In the book it is answering the question very clearly but leaving you with some uncertainty. You wonder why did she live on the boat and why did the people have to reincarnate. These won’t be answered until we die and then forget.

Problems with main character:

Liz has to cope with her fear of dying. She really hates going backwards and she only wish she could go back to normal. Not even her friends can help her. But finally she gets a boyfriend and then his wife dies and her boyfriend forgets about Liz. This makes Liz want to go back more and then she goes in to the river and tries to swim away. She then realizes that she rather just wait.