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- Back on Earth, Liz had been eager to grow up and become independent; she dreamed of getting her driver’s license, moving out of her parents’ house, getting married, and becoming a veterinarian. As a result, she finds the idea of growing younger distressing, and she continues to cling to her old life for some time after arriving in Elsewhere.
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Liz Hall is Elsewhere’s protagonist. A high school sophomore with blonde hair, “very pale skin and greenish blue eyes” (12), Liz is stubborn and smart, with a particular aptitude for math and science and a fondness for animals (particularly dogs).
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Elsewhere begins just after the death of its protagonist,...
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Judging by the dream she has her first night in Elsewhere,...
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Someone somewhere once told Liz that she must never, under any circumstances, open a door in a dream. Since Liz can’t remember who the person was or why all doors must remain closed, she decides to ignore the advice.
Fifteen-year-old Liz is hit and killed by a taxi. When she wakes up, she finds herself in the cabin of a ship named the SS Nile. She meets her idol, who turns out to be dead, like her. The ship arrives to an island called 'Elsewhere'.
Judging by the dream she has her first night in Elsewhere, Liz at one point had fairly detailed plans for her future; in her dream, she attends the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, completes a degree in biology, and enrolls in a veterinary school in Florida, where she meets the man she will eventually marry.
Aldous Ghent prompts Liz to read Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Liz reads Charlotte’s Web as she grows younger. Finally, Owen reads Tuck Everlasting to Liz when she is no longer able to read on her own.
Although Liz has by this point concluded that she’s dreaming, she begins looking for a hat. Thandi reassures her that she’s “got weird things, too” (12), lifting up her braids to reveal a wound at the back of her head; she can’t remember how she got it, but says that it seems to be healing.
In this novel, Lizzie has been killed in a hit and run accident. When she wakes on a boat, she thinks that she is dreaming. However, as Lizzie comes to understand the truth, she finds herself fighting reality and breaking the rules to get back to her family.
