The author explains how the media capitalizes on those events. Examples such as “(Dead Girl by Liz Hall) and a TV movie (Determined to Live: The Elizabeth M. Hall Story) and an appearance on Oprah to promote both” (Zevin 43). Believers of the afterlife are baited by these stories as they search for conformation in their beliefs. As they look for connections, they begin to paying money and time to the ones who take advantage of them. Time passes after Liz’s death “the mentions become fewer and fewer” (Zevin 94). Returning to the discussion of human’s parting gifts, as time passes people think about Liz less and less. For time wins in the end. The poem “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley implicates that concept. The lines “Nothing beside remains…boundless and bare the lone and level sands stretch far away” say that time has covered the once great works of Ozymandias. There are also uses of metaphors in this novel that fit with magical realism. Lucy presents one “a dog isn’t meant to outlive her human!”. Substituting dog with parent and human with son/daughter and the reader comes to the worst event in a parent’s life. For humans do not expect to outlive their children in modern times. While the concept of death is widely accepted as part of life the deaths of one’s son or daughter are the …show more content…
Not an endless amount of wealth and material items as normally expected. The author makes the reader believe the need to work for money (eternim). Easy for readers to accept because the idea mimics life on earth. Zevin also adds a way for the dead to view the living. The thought of the observation decks as pay-per view glimpses of earth. Zevin makes the transition easier by fabricating binoculars as sights into earth, so readers could have an item of relation rather then having an ability to see from nothing. She also creates the Well as an explanation to ghosts and hearing the dead. She adds factors human are used to into her creation of the Well. Having it underwater makes the dead hard to understand. The communication though water makes it understandable and pushes the reader to agree and