In the first part of the book, Cheryl is describing the events of the school shooting. The more we find out, the more we question whether she is alive or dead while telling this. “Cheryl – the pretty girl who was the last one to be shot” (Coupland 25) makes it seem as though Cheryl is telling the story from the afterlife, which makes the reader question if she’s in heaven, or stuck in a state of being neither alive nor dead.
I included this picture because I think it illustrates where Cheryl currently is. It seems she is in an in-between location writing her side of the story, somewhere in the middle of this pathway to heaven. She has not yet reached heaven where she would have no interaction with Earth, so in a half state makes the most sense to me. Also, because Cheryl fully accepted God, she accepted her death. Her religious nature made her think the best of the situation, so I also find that in Cheryl’s mind her death would have looked more like this picture, with a beach and brightness rather than the dark reality of her gruesome death.
Picture from http://tinyurl.com/pathtoheaven
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