Megan Beuter Blog post 3

I am reading Everlost by Neal Shusterman. I have read to page 102. The book Everlost is about three kids. Two of them die at the beginning of the book and the other has been dead for over a hundred years. The boy who has been dead the longest is called Lief, and the other two are Nick and Allie. Lief is in the woods, in a dead spot, where "after lights" can be without sinking into the ground. Lief finds Allie and Nick laying on the ground in the woods after hearing a car crash on the road. He tries to shake them awake, but they will not wake for exactly nine months. When they have awoken, naturally the first thing they want to know is how they got there and if there are survivors of the crash. So they start out for their homes to find out if their loved ones are still alive. On their way to their houses they notice a place that has hundreds of kids there just like them. And the place, Allie realizes, is the twin towers. I think this book is interesting, because it talks about a place where the kids aren't really dead; they are just in between heaven and earth. They have lost their way like many children do, and will remain that way until the end of time in Everlost. I think the author wrote this to make us think about the things that never leave people's minds, but are as of now not physically present. I think that this is what he wants us to think about because tragic things happen and those things can never really leave a person's mind, so one may wonder where do those things go? The theme of this book is the afterlife and what happens in it, and what happens to the things that are tragically taken away from us in life. Allie is the best character, because I can relate to her. She tries to reason things out logically, and notices patterns before others do. She also shows great amounts of confidence and security of herself; very passionate. Mary, the "queen" of after lights at the twin towers, writes in one of her books, "We are not like the living" "We are beyond life. We are better than life. We don't need to complicate our existence with a thousand meaningless activities, when one will do just fine..." This quotation is important because it shows you that in Everlost, the children do the same things over, and over everyday. The exact same way as it happened the day before. When they are put in new situations they do not know what to do. What will Allie do next? Will she try to escape? Will she go see her family even though she knows she isn't supposed to?