Character Analysis Of Libby Day In Dark Places

When Libby Day was seven years old, her mother and two sisters were murdered in home in Kinnakee, Kansas. Libby was placed on the witness stand and testified that she saw her brother, Ben, kill them. Libby, however, was hiding in her mother’s closet during the murders and eventually snuck out the back window into the snow, making her testament completely inaccurate. Now, Libby Day is in her mid-thirties and is more determined than ever to find out what really happened to her family on that horrific night. If Ben did not kill her family, who did? Dark Places is the story about Libby finding answers to her terrible past. It is written in five points of view- Patty Day before she was killed, Libby Day now, Libby Day before the murders occurred, Ben Day now, and Ben Day before the murders. In this journal, I will be predicting, questioning, and evaluating.

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Day was also very self-conscious about what everyone thought of herself and her family. She and Runner had inherited the farm from her parents, but she had just received news that it was about to be foreclosed. Runner was Patty’s drunk, ex-husband, who left her family five years before the killings. The Day home was as dirty as a pigpen, and their clothes were worn and tattered. Patty Day put others before herself and was a kind woman who loved her children very much.

The Day family murders were a shock to the town of Kinnakee. Everyone believed Libby’s confession about Ben being the killer, but many people could have been suspects, including Mr. Wertzner. Ben was believed to be a bad kid already because he was being accused of molesting Krissi Cates. Patty Day was the struggling mother of Ben and her three daughters, two of which were killed the same night as her. Libby has been coping with this loss for the past 25 years, but once she starts investigating more, she realizes that the killer might now be coming for her,