I really liked the beginning, where Elijah lay in the stream. I thought the imagery was very vivid, and the juxtaposition of the beauty of the beginning and the car accident was a neat device. Also, the little girl as a symbol was interesting and made the reader try and figure her out throughout the whole story.
There was some irregularity with the name of the protagonist. I'd say it is ok that the little symbolic girl calls him Eli, but the narrator should probably always call him the same thing. Otherwise, the irregularity is confusing to the reader.
When the story begins to get very violent and the cliff begins to pierce his hands, I got lost. I was never sure if it was really happening or if it was in his head. Normally, I could work with that, but I also didn't know why it was happening. The whole thing seemed random, which made it seem unnecessarily violent.
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