The main obvious conflict of the book, The
Vanishing Game is that Jack has supposedly died. When Jocelyn, his sister
hears this news, she is a wreck. She cannot even wrap her head around the fact
that she would never see her twin brother ever again. But soon after she hears
the news, she receives a letter and it’s from Jack! The letter was sent from
Watertown. But how could he send a letter if he’s dead? He wasn't And she was
sure of it. Now she has a lead and needs to follow it. But how will she go back
to Watertown; where they had stayed in a horrible foster home for a portion of
their childhood? We’ll have to read to find out!
Sunday, September 22, 2013
Seale House
Seale House
The Seale house was the foster home of
Jack and Jocelyn when they were kids. On Jocelyn's journey to find her brother,
she sees things that seemed peculiar to me. In one part of the text on page 33
it says, "But who had kept it smoothly working in the years since the
foster home had been closed?” (She was talking about the lock that they always
kept it oiled so that they could escape through that door without Hazel Frey
hearing it). This makes me suspicious
that Jack was never dead and he has been hiding in the Seale house for some
reason. This creepy abandoned foster home seems like an odd place to want to
be. Especially after all the harsh conditions the foster children went through.
Jack and Jocelyn luckily left the house but later on the next page it says that
there were kids that might have not left. Does this mean they have something to
do with Jack's disappearance? Could there be someone who wanted revenge?
Another major question of mine from this chapter is how did the house
become like this? The author makes it clear that the Seales were very strict
when it came to the cleanliness of the home. But when Jocelyn visits the house
it is in complete mess.
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Bond
Jocelyn is the girl that will do anything
for her brother. She makes me think of how twins grow together to make two
different individual but so very similar humans. She has this passion towards
finding her brother. A passion that makes me wonder if it’s just natural bond
formed between twins or is it out of her true character.
Her affection to put herself in danger to
find Jack reminds of the small scene from Hunger
Games, when Katniss Everdeen, the main
character, volunteers to keep Primrose Everdeen, her sister
from participating at the Hunger Games. Her courageous enlistment keeps her sister safe but
puts herself in jeopardy. Like that situation, Jocelyn does the same but not on
such a dramatic scale.
Jack
In, The Vanishing Game, Jack, the twin
of Jocelyn is said to be dead. Jocelyn is devastated because they shared a bond
like no other. They had switched through foster homes and never really had a
stable childhood but they had each other. Jocelyn goes looking for Jack
believing that he isn't dead. From the plot so far I can definitely tell that
she will go to extreme measures to find her brother who might or might not be
dead. For example in the passage it said, “I shoved away a case of bottled
water and climbed in. It wasn't easy--- at nearly six feet, I was tall for a
girl. I curled up on the floor and shut the door, then lay in the dark trying
to catch my breath and listening to the rain pummeling the roof”(pg.6) This
quote explains her hopping into a friend of Jack’s car hoping that he would
lead her to her brother. By the end of this book I would assume that he will
give into to help finding Jack or telling Jocelyn more information about Jack's
death if that's what had happened.
In, The Vanishing Game, Jack, the twin
of Jocelyn is said to be dead. Jocelyn is devastated because they shared a bond
like no other. They had switched through foster homes and never really had a
stable childhood but they had each other. Jocelyn goes looking for Jack
believing that he isn't dead. From the plot so far I can definitely tell that
she will go to extreme measures to find her brother who might or might not be
dead. For example in the passage it said, “I shoved away a case of bottled
water and climbed in. It wasn't easy--- at nearly six feet, I was tall for a
girl. I curled up on the floor and shut the door, then lay in the dark trying
to catch my breath and listening to the rain pummeling the roof”(pg.6) This
quote explains her hopping into a friend of Jack’s car hoping that he would
lead her to her brother. By the end of this book I would assume that he will
give into to help finding Jack or telling Jocelyn more information about Jack's
death if that's what had happened.
Thursday, September 5, 2013
The Vanishing Game
I chose this book because
the cover was very each catching. It created a sort of suspense just looking at
the book in the first place. On the back of the book, there is small excerpt
that it written for the reader from a character in the book. They mention a
clue, something hidden, and someone being lost. This really grabbed my
attention because I enjoy books that create mystery and it seems very
mysterious. You can see the book cover below.
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