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Text to World - Elevation

The book I have been reading since my last post is Elevation by Stephen King. Since my last reading a lot has happened. Scott Carey still has his disease and rapid weight loss and his friend Bob still can't find a name for this disease. As the days pass Scott is gradually losing more weight each day. Scott, after the race against Deidre, has now become friends with his neighbors and do all manner of things together. Although Scott is still losing weight he is just living out his life to the best of his ability before he dies. In the final pages of the book life becomes extremely difficult. He becomes so light he can't stay on the ground. He always floats around and can't control it. This makes simple tasks like cooking and even sleeping hard. At the end he gathers his friends Bob, Missy, and Deidre and reveals to his new friends (Deidre and Missy) his disease. After this he has Deirdre come to his house the next night and asks her to send him off into the sky. Deidre understands and straps him into a wheelchair that they bought previously and takes him outside. She then continues to unstrap him from the chair and he floats out of the atmosphere.

I can make a connection between the book and the world because there are many people who have weight loss problems similar to Scott Carey. Although in the world people don't float out of the atmosphere they do loss weight rather fast and in some cases die.

I like the way the author made Scott float away to end the book. I wonder what affect the book would have on me as the reader if he didn't have Scott float away but die a normal death. I wonder if I would have been sad and I wonder if the death would have been cruel and horrible for Scott.
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