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The book proceeds into Chuy finding the young man in yellow shoes, which we also learn is named Chuy. He roams the streets, then soon after ‘yellow shoes’ finds his family in mourning at his house. Chuy discovers that his mother had asked his cousin, Eddie, to seek revenge on the other Chuy – to find him and shoot him dead. Although our main character Chuy has extreme hatred towards our murderer Chuy, he still doesn’t want to get his cousin involved, or into trouble. At this point, Chuy has found out that his ghostly form is starting to disappear, first his hands, then his feet. While she wasn’t there physically, she was very much present with them and knew that the relationship she shared with each of her family members and friends would continue to grow and develop even in the afterlife. 3.) There is no Space or Time Plot Summary: “The Afterlife” starts off right away with the main character, Chuy, getting stabbed to death by a young man in yellow shoes. Chuy had only made a comment about the man’s shoes, and he murdered him on the spot. Immediately Chuy’s spirit, or ghost, lifted from his body, and he just floated there inspecting himself. He begins to learn more and more about his new status as a ghost. He learns that the wind can push him around easily, but not so much if he tightens his stomach muscles. I've never read a Gary Soto book I didn't like, and this was no exception. In Afterlife, 17-year old Chuy is stabbed to death by some cabron in the restroom of a Fresno nightclub after Chuy compliments his shoes. When he finds himself dead and floating above his former body, he spends the next 4 days tooling around town, doing the sort of things ghosts might do.
Former afterlife skeptic Dr. Alexander is forever changed after a brain illness and his own near-death experience. In this book about life after death, he recounts speaking with the divine source of the Universe that resulted in his new belief that death is not the end. In Closer to the Light, these children share their first-hand accounts of telepathic communication, out-of-body travel, and meeting dead family members, all after death. The Afterlife of Billy Fingers by Annie Kagan Alice refuses to believe her mother abandoned her, and instead, searches diligently for her mother online. She pores over her mother’s journals for clues. Eventually, Jenna’s memories of her mother synchronize with events as they unfold in the journals. There are many people who believe that there is life after death because of religious teachings or because they have had good experiences. Others don't believe that our consciousness doesn't stop when we die. No matter which category you fall into, reading about life after death can offer valuable insights on the topic of death.
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Response: My first reaction to this book is to realize how different it is from my usual reading material. For example, this book is about a boy, and I guess I usually read about main characters who are girls. Second, as both a teacher and as a parent, I have only read to children 9 and under, so I have not read much young adult literature; this book is about a high school student, and the issues and questions are definitely not those of a younger child.
In the Afterlife, the story is really all about Chuy and his process of learning to be a ghost and his discussion of his life. There isn't a lot of focus on the crime itself (though we do get to see the killer several times) - but the focus is actually more about the neighborhood that Chuy grew up in, the community that he was surrounded by, and generally exposing readers to the experiences of a young Latino.
As a child, Colton talks about how he left his body during surgery. They were in another room of the hospital when he was born. He can tell you what they were doing. Alice doesn't believe her mother left her. Instead, she spends a lot of time looking for her mother on the internet. She pores over her mother’s journals for clues. Jenna's memories of her mother start to match up with the events that happen in the journals. Whether these books about life after death resonate with you will depend partly on your beliefs. Read with an open mind; you never know when you’ll find a story that resonates with you and provides you with a new take on the afterlife. Point of View: The story is told through the eyes of the main character, Chuy. He talks in first person, using him, her, etc. I think it makes a significant difference in the story that it’s told from Chuy’s perspective. I say this because it could’ve been told through the eyes of ‘yellow shoes,’ Crystal, Robert, or even his mother. If the story was in the perspective of the murderer Chuy, I’m sure the story would spin in a whole different direction, with different emotions, conflicts, and a whole new line of characters. At that point, it wouldn’t even be about ‘the afterlife’ anymore, because this Chuy is still living, facing more realistic problems.
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