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Waking Up In Phoebe Kitanidis's Book 'Glimmer'

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Imagine waking up not knowing who you are. Phoebe Kitanidis wrote the book Glimmer. The main characters of this book are Elyse Alton and Marshall King. It is about two teenagers who wake up in bed together, naked. Neither of them have any idea how they got there or even who they are. They don’t know each other, which leads them both to be confused and a little weirded out as to why they wake up intertwined in each other. They have to put that all aside and work together to figure out who they are and how they got there. They stumble across several obstacles while trying to get their lives back, like Elyse’s family not believing her when she says she doesn’t remember anything about her life. The two teens feel as if something is off about this perfect little town they’re in. It’s in the middle of Colorado, but it’s always warm due to the climate being controlled by a glacier. They both sense that something isn’t quite right about where they are or who the people are that claim to be their friends and family. They uncover some secrets about the town that may lead to the reason why they woke up with no recollection of who they were before waking up. …show more content…

Elyse was mad when she found out Marshall was more different than she once thought. She flips out calling herself damaged and he says,“Don’t call yourself damaged. And you do have a right to be angry, but please don’t take it out on me” (Kitanidis 238). Marshall still cares for Elyse no matter how damaged she thinks she is and no matter how much she takes stuff out on him. Their world has changed forever and they’ve lost a lot of people together, but they still have each other. Elyse asked Marshall if they made the right choice to fix their town. He expressed his new found happiness to her. “I was never happy before I came here. Before Summer Falls, before you, I never had a home” (Kitanidis 347). Even though their world has changed forever, they are still happy with one

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