Lost
A world of despair, this world like our own, it looks and feels the same but it’s not. Here fog roams the land of Everlost; everywhere you look there is a light gray fog amongst you. During your time in you new world Everlost; you must keep moving, or you will sink to the center of the Earth forever. In the novel Everlost by Neal Shusterman, he created a nightmare of reality but with a tragedy type plot line with plenty of symbolism to make out what type of mode of literature it is.
Symbolism floats around in Everlost; but one of the books giant hints that its tragedy is the cover. With its eerie glow of green and its dead black trees along the side of it, it screams out tragedy to the readers. Along with the eerie glow and the black dead trees there are two children with their backs turned away from the readers. It’s not that they have their backs turned it’s the shadowy color, along with the title of the book Everlost. The title seems as though as something is dragging the letters down but the tops of the letters are staying put. Everlost’s colors, people, and title fits the symbolism for tragedy but does the plotline?
In the beginning of the book both main characters are driving in a car when both cars smash into each other and the kids in the back seats die right away. Later on, they wake up in Everlost, both dead and confused and this is the conflict. After they wonder off to see if there are other people are like them. As they walk they meet up with another kid named Mary. Mary knows everything about Everlost and had, a whole building full of kids along with her. This would connect to the rise of power by them finding more and discovering what they are doing here and why. Now in the story there is a very adventurous, main character Allie, wanting to be the know it all. Allie let it get the best of her by challenging a ripper which rips out things of the living world. Her and her friends travel to this person but only find out that he is a monster. A monster like no other; he traps you forever in barrels of water for all eternity if you do not pass his test. Both of her friends do not pass and they are gone forever because of her adventurous personality; which is the tragic flaw. Then its the tragic fall, which happens when another monster takes away the barrels and she has to go, find and fight the monster. After the tragic fall there was the death or the death symbolism. This happened when Mary turned on the main characters and become almost like a monster. Trapping kids and keeping them in Everlost instead of putting them in heaven or hell.
EverLost by Neal Shusterman is a story with many symbolism and an easy mode of literature to find out.Everlost was a nightmare of reality, which happened to be irony, but with the twist of tragedy tide into it. SO it just so happens to be that almost everything is tide into each other.
