Charlie Presumed Dead

We don´t get a lot of information about the various characters.The story is told in first person through a narrator who’s an african american man who remains without a name throughout the novel, besides

How the author described, how Alexis found the body was definitely unexpected and it felt so real. I enjoyed the way to author explained how the girl’s body was found. April used descriptive words that could help me envision how the body was, almost like I was watching a movie. When she found the body, that is what really stuck with me throughout the entire book. The were two quotes that stood out to me in this book. “If the cops are wrong, then right now this guy is looking for his next victim.” This quote stuck out to me because it meant that if the teenagers don’t find out who the killer is, then the killer is still out there waiting for his next victim. “It was all like a fairy tale. And bad things happened in a fairy tale forests. Witches and wolves lay in wait.” I thought that this quote was similar to the other one, and I think that it really shows how they needed to find the killer, so that more people wouldn’t be

Characters: Stevie and Susan Carol are the two main characters of the book. It also had many minor characters.

There are a good bit of characters in this book. There is Brian (the main character), Brian’s mother, Susan, Haley, Carl, Brian’s father, Caleb, the pilot, the two fishermen, and Billy. Where this is taking place is in a small town and in the woods, but is mostly talking about being in the woods. Brian use to live in the woods by himself. He comes back to a town to finish up school and has to part his ways from the woods.

After Sam and Patrick leave for college, Charlie has a mental breakdown. During this mental breakdown we find out that his aunt who was his favorite person died in a car crash on his seventh birthday on the way to his celebration.1 He calls his sister and tells her that it’s his fault that she died.1 Alarmed by her brother’s state, his sister calls the police. Charlie starts to remember his past trauma and starts having flashbacks. He remembers his aunt saying, “Don’t wake up you sister” and “it’s our little secret.”1 Charlie is walking around the house non-stop until he has a flashback of his aunt crying and seeing her wrist cut. He sees a knife and steps closer to grab it. The police then enter the house and stop Charlie from hurting himself.

The book was written by Maggie Stieftvater. The books Genre is under fantasy & adventure and I think it nails the area it was supposed to. The book is written in third person because there’s multiple characters in different places at different time and to cover them all it has the be written in third person. The authors style is informal however it’s written brilliantly. It’s written for people that are from eight to fifteen years of age.

The main character, Charlie must navigate through it even while feeling motionless and scared. He tells his story to the reader from his perspective. The reader sees life from exactly the way he sees the events and understands those events through a teenage boy’s eyes. The crisis is introduced when the town outcast Jasper Jones asked Charlie, a bookish young nobody of a boy for help. The reader sees Charlie’s internal conflicts of wanting to go with Jasper, feeling terrified, excited yet so wanting to be accepted by him Charlie does in fact sneak out in the middle of the night with his new friend. Jasper takes Charlie to the scene of the crime where Jasper’s girlfriend is hanging from a tree. The manner that Silvey describes Charlie’s reaction to the hanged girls is true to human nature, “I’m screaming, but they are muffled screams. I can’t breathe in. I feel like I’m underwater. Deaf and drowning.” This description foreshadows the solution to hide the body and Jasper and Charlie throw Laura Wishart into the lake. Unknown to either is Laura Wishart’s sister, Eliza. She witnessed the suicide of her sister and wrote the word “sorry” on the stump of the tree before she leaves. Charlie and Jasper find this word, assume that the killer wrote it there, and immediately jump to the

The main character throughout most of the book is “Verity”, or Julie. She is actually telling the story of Maddie, however, although her presence seems to still be main focus throughout the story. Halfway through the book, however, it switched to Maddie’s point of view, or “Kittyhawk”. With both of the girls, you can see the changes in them. They both develop greatly and you can see it through them by just looking at what they are afraid of. It mentions once in the story that Julie once said that she was afraid of growing old, and then she say’s later that she could eat her words: she is now afraid of never growing old. “But mainly so very, very stupid. I desperately want to grow old” (114). With Maddie, you can see her

Darcy is the main character, Jamie is Darcy’s sister and Hakeem is Darcy’s boyfriend/ ex boyfriend, Tarah is her best friend. Copper is Tarah’s boyfriend and Liselle and Brain are brother and sister. Now you know everybody in the book. Every character in the book plays a very special part in it. They make the plot special and unique in its own way.

     The book shows the separate characters. In the novel you see The whole character by what they say. Cal can be described as a teacher to the children. She shows them the way that others live when she takes them to

In book 1 it starts off by describing a family by the name of the Dursley's and their daily routine. It explains how they are a very normal family

This novel is based on storytelling. Each girl has their own point of view of what life is like in the Congo. For, example, it was absolutely terrible for Rachel. She never wanted to be there from the start. When they first arrived in the Congo, no one wanted to be there. Certain girls changed their minds. Ruth May, for example, conformed to the Congo culture. She even made friends along the way, by playing games like “Mother May I” with the children of the Congo. Leah did not really conform to the culture. She wanted to hunt with the guys, but she still was a part of their culture. She fought for women’s rights in the Congo. Leah

Primarily, the characters in the book are foils for each other. One example is Lucie Manette and Madame Defarge. Lucie is a very gentle and loving woman. Everything that she does shows her kindness and virtue. Her tenderness and adoration for everyone empowers her to unite the family. For instance, when Lucie 's father was in a horrible state of depression, the only cure for his sadness was the sight of Lucie 's face and the touch of her skin. On the other

Time: The time in the book is Christmas Season. Characters Main: The main character is Fancy Nancy. Secondary: The secondary characters are mom, dad, sister, and grandpa. Mood/ Tone:

There are five narrators in this book who carries on the story telling. Those five narrators are four girls each named Ruth May, Adah, Leah, Rachel, and their mother Orleanna. Orleanna is always the opening narrator in each of the books besides the last two which are Song of the Three and The Eyes in the Trees. I found it very interesting to have Orleanna as the opening speaker because she is narrating the story from a later time comparing to her four daughters. Orleanna narrates the story as she is talking about history while her daughters narrate the stories as they are experiencing it at the moment. Basically in the opening act Orleanna hints ominously to the reader at the events that’s going to happen. In the opening act Orleanna said “There’s