Thursday, October 25, 2007

Outside reading end of book

The Tenth Circle is a book with many twists and turns to it. Throughout there were many things I saw that had obvious solutions and specific right answers. As the story progresses I found out that things are not always the truth; that things either arn't as they seem or are lies someone used to protect someone else. For example, we are convinced that Trixie has murdered her ex-boyfriend, Jason, because her hair, blood, and footprints are at the scene, she has run away, and there is no one else who I would expect to do it. In the end we figure out that Trixie confresses to her dad who takes the blame when the police find them. Her whole family, including her mom too, have confessed and are sent to jail until they can figure it out. When Daniel gets released, he walks to Trixie's mom's cell and explains that she will be out soon too. When we think everything is better and that Trixie will face the consequences, the story takes a major twist. Trixie's mom confesses to the murder and explains how. Trixie was just covering for her mom and made up the whole thing to protect her mom from going to jail. In this situation it seems that everything is going to be played out one way because it came as a shock that Trixie would even do that in the first place. The surprise distracts us from believing it could be any other way but after finishing the book and knowing how it ends, I realized how many aspects of foreshadowing were used. Throughout the book there were so many hidden things that are not interpreted the right way until the end. From the beginning it is known that the book will be filled with hidden meanings because of the words hidden throughout the pictures in the book, but not until after is it seen in the story and plot too. In my opinion, The Tenth Circle is a book definantly worth reading because of its use of great intellegence and trickery that makes it fun to read.

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