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The Great Gatsby Chapter Summary
Chp. 1 Barney Northrup sells apartments and knows where the people who will be buying the apartments will be staying before he shows them the apartments. Barney sells one to Mrs. Wexler and Mr. Wexler. They have two children, one named, Turtle. Mrs. Wexler is happy about buying the apartment and can’t wait to show off the view of the apartment to her friends who live in old fashioned houses. Mrs. Wexler is a very showy person.
Chp. 2 Theo, Otis, and Turtle, see smoke come out of the chimney from the Westing House. Otis tells them that no one lives in the Westing House and a rotting body of an old man lives there. Otis tells them a story of how some kids were payed to go in the Westing House for a dollar and they came out scared and one of them is in an asylum house. Turtle bets with Theo that she can go in the …show more content…
Theo knows how to play chess so he makes a move first before anyone. The rules to the game continue and everyone will get 5,000 dollars if they are able to solve the mystery without dropping out and quitting the whole thing.
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“Haven’t you memorized them yet?” (chp. 7, p. 45)

Explanation:
Turtle and Mrs. Baubach are partners in the westing Game mystery. Turtle and Flora can’t give away a clue about their clues so Turtle is telling her to memorize them by memory and she’ll do something so no one can read them. Turtle decides to eat her and Flora’s clues so now no one won’t even know where to find them unless the person asks them face to face.

Chapter 8 That night everyone was trapped in by a blizzard and Turtle went around selling candles because there wasn’t any electricity. Sydelle and Angela go to Theo’s and Theo asks them how to pronounce certain words and he starts to pick up some conclusions of the words of grains and the names of the some of the players in the Westing game.

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