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An Analysis Of Neal Shusterman's Everlost '
Neal Shusterman’s Everlost is a true masterpiece. Shusterman uses his elegant writing style to clearly convey the story straight to your head and he completes a solid realistic fiction environment. I would say this is most likely a realistic fiction piece, because we can’t make precise assumptions about what happens after death. The dialogue he creates is a spot on representation of children if they were in this dire situation, and it makes me believe that these characters and their setting are almost real to me. In this book, Shusterman takes a turn and kills the protagonists almost immediately, and launches them into a kind of limbo, Everlost. Everlost in a way, is a fantasy realm where you forget who or what you are, and you try to avoid

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