Penny, Connor, her winery manager, her neighbor Antonia and Chantal her daughter are off to Napa Valley to look into possibly investing in railroad that will bring wine country tourist to their wineries. At first winery they stop at, Chantal gets into a heated argument with another possible investor, Tara. Shortly after taking off for the next winery on the tour, someone pulls the emergency cord and Penny and Connor go to try and learn what happened, when they realize that Chantal is missing. As they try to enter the caboose, they find the entrance blocked. When they do get in they find Chantal unconscious on the floor, with a cut to the head. When Penny looks down the track, she can see what appears to be Tara's lifeless body. Based on the fight they had earlier, Chantal becomes the prime suspect. Penny knows that Chantal has been a thorn in her side, but doesn't feel that she is a murderer and proceeds to look to see who might have wanted Tara to go to the great winery in the…
A book starting with a story, a story about a seven-year-old girl named Keri playing with her best friend Janna on a zip line in her backyard when she prepared herself to break her arm. Fast-forward eight years to events that Keri in no way could have prepared herself for, her older brother's unexpected suicide. After losing contact with Janna for many years, Janna makes a sudden reappearance with an idea, what if Keri’s brother was murdered? For this paper I will be predicting, evaluating and questioning.…
Becca had heard of Alex staying at the New York hospital. She sent a letter to her sister to give to Alex. Before the letter could arrive Alex arrived in Jonesville.…
The main character in the book is Judge and that his problems are that he has a twin brother(his twin brother is his partner and judge has some disabled that is called dyslexia and the science fair because his twin brother does not pay attention in class and does not care so judge thinks that he won’t care about helping him in the science fair Chapter 1 was talking about that judge had this disability called dyslexia that would make him mix up words like and and no and 738 873.the problem in chapter 1 is that judge thinks that everybody thinks he is stupid. chapter 2 was talking about his family and that his grandparents from both sides come every other Friday but forgot and it was talking about that on the science fair it could ruin his life…
Literature of this century does not make teenagers aware of upcoming situations, many of which will be a struggle for them all, but they all need to know they are not alone, and that someone out there, no matter how far across the world has gone through the exact same thing they have, maybe just with different people. “The Story of Tom Brennan” accurately covers the emotions that are experienced during the loss and injure of close friends during a drunk driving accident, and as a remorseful thing to say, there are hundreds of thousands of people that would be able to relate to this novel.…
Alby commits suicide by walking into a group of Grievers, thinking that it was better that he die there than outside the Maze.…
For those who may not know who Alex Rider is, he was dragged into the spy business by his uncle’s murder in the first book, Stormbreaker. Alex lost his parents in a tragic accident that hasn’t quite been explained, then raised by his uncle Ian, who Alex thought was a bank manager and led a very quiet, sedate life.…
When Alex woke from the darkness he found himself lying next to a Rebel. He fell back into the darkness again. When horsemen could be seen at dawn he called without…
‘The Story of Tom Brennan’ by J.C Burke depicts the chaos that follows a fatal car accident and how it thrusts individuals into a new world. The novel follows the response of Tom Brennan in relation to an accident and his journey to overcome his past and learn to adapt to his new world. Tom’s way of looking at life is completely altered after the accident, “ … Daniels blue Falcon up on a side against a tree, the front tyre spinning, everything I thought I knew about who I was and who the Brennans were changed forever”. The use of first person narrative gives the audience insight into Tom’s realization that he has indeed found himself heading into a ‘new experience’ and a new world. The visual imagery of the car smashed beyond recognition symbolizes this break with the world that he once knew.…
I’m guessing Alex was who he always wanted to be. I think never liked who he was and how he was treated but maybe being alex for a while was the longest escape he could find. Chris McCandless wanted to make a big impact in his life, and in my opinion he did the greatest thing he could do.…
Alex has promised to keep in touch with a few people and send postcards to let them know how he is doing. One letter he had sent was to Bob and Jan saying “don’t know where I’m headed now but I’ll write you when I get there… ”Jan and Bob were friends of him who wanted to stay on the lookout for Chris incase of anything that may…
everything is cleared up the narrator goes to see his mother’s car that is torn up, but…
As Alex is unable to talk to anyone about the way he is feeling, he needs to find out further information for himself. This leads to him discovering the car that his Uncle died in. Alex is able to look more closely at the car which shows lots of bullet holes in the seats and many blood stains, this evidence makes Alex wonder if his Uncle was set up. In fact due to this being totally out of character, Alex really believes this could be a murder case and wants revenge.…
And finally, Alex does not know how to navigate through the grasslands; he also does not have the coordinates of any nearby villages or towns. All these factors may cooperate, resulting in the instant death of Alex. Likewise, another possibility as to why Alex will not survive is because M16 and McCain are violently dispatching the area. For example, McCain’s skilled tribesmen are viciously searching for Alex throughout the grasslands to assassinate him and kill anything that meets their path. If they, however, manage to fail, McCain would be pleased to go search for and torture Alex himself whether it is by plane or APC.…
-As Alex thinks that his dad might have been shot, he “felt overwhelmed, as if [he] was drowning,”(123) and sobbed, cried hard.…