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The novel THE NIGHT MY SISTER WENT MISSING by Carol Plum-Ucci, Advances to an unexpected ending in the second half of the novel. In the second half of the novel Casey Carmody is still missing. Stacey has a theory that Mark stern was the one who pulled the trigger but he was supposed to shoot Stacey instead of Casey. That night Stacey and Kurt spent all night talking. The next morning Stacey and Kurt were still at the beach and something washed up, it was Casey and Kurt ran to her and a bunch of police officers ran to her and brought her to the hospital. Stacey Kearney couldn’t handle the fact that she was raped and that everyone was talking bad about her so she committed suicide. Casey spoke to the Police officers and told them that she saw …show more content…

This book is about Kurt trying to find his sister and Stacey trying to cope with everyone talking behind her back and everyone talking about her pregnancy. Carol shows that anyone can handle getting bullied but there is a limit, people shouldn’t get bullied because a lot of kids are committing suicide because of it, and that when kids are getting bullied they can handle it but then when it comes to a point they can’t handle it they don’t think life is worth living for, Carols shows this in Stacey because She was getting bullied everyday by almost all the kids and she went through it all the time but then when it comes to a certain point she couldn’t bare the fact that she had to go through it every day. People who get bullied always wants revenge to the bully and in the book The Night My Sister Went Missing Mark Stern was trying to get revenge because Stacey cheated on Mark a lot because she was always out with people every night they were dating. I think that the author was trying to send a message because Carol Plum-Ucci has created this book for teens and wanted to send a message by showing that bullying can lead to very serious matters like suicide and she shows that by making Stacey the victim of bullying and showing that Stacey couldn’t live with her self any more so she decided to commit

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