Eliot Timeline and Summary

Because Eliot's mother is a single, working mother, she needs a babysitter for eleven-year-old Eliot and so answers an ad posted by Mrs. Sen.
Eliot ends up staying afterschool at Mrs. Sen's everyday.
He spends his days watching Mrs. Sen chop food, talking with her, and accompanying her to the fish market with Mr. Sen.
One week, Mrs. Sen is depressed because she finds out that her grandfather has passed.
A week later, Mr. Sen takes them to the beach and the fish market to cheer up Mrs. Sen.
But then he forces her to practice driving, which upsets Mrs. Sen because she hates driving.
On another day, Mrs. Sen and Eliot take the bus to the fish market because Mr. Sen's not available to drive them.
An old lady makes a critical comment to the bus driver about Mrs. Sen and the fishy odor.
The next time Mrs. Sen needs to go to the market, she decides to drive herself and Eliot. Unfortunately, they get into a car accident.
Eliot's mother promptly pulls Eliot from Mrs. Sen's care and decides to just give Eliot a key to the house.
Eliot, thereafter, becomes a latch-key kid.