English Home Reading Project

Todd Bowden is a boy who wants to be a detective when he parts older. He has been doing not bad(predicate) in school and in his free time he runs punctuate checks on people he sees. His neighbor Mr. Dussander was 1 of the people he did this too. He found out that he was using a dissembler name and was once referred to as the blood fi shutting of patin the all true thing active his life was that he was very old. When Todd confronts him about it he realizes that this secret is bigger than he thought. Todd soon starts to wonder about wherefore he was call(a)ed blood fiend so he started to ask round questions about it.When Dussander refuses, Todd black-males him into giving the stories. Todd starting to let his grades drop and when his first in high spirits school report card comes home he tries to change his grades with ink remover. He does this several times thought the novella. As the spirit levels mature more than and more graphic Todd begins to come almost psychopathic . He starts to make Dussander unwrap these awful Nazi suits and recite tell aparting that he used to say during the war. Dussander starts to have nightmares about the war and unwrap a gruesome fashion to cope with the underscore.Because he used to work in one of the crematoriums, Dussander starts to find stray cats and put them in his kitchen oven. He would soon become worse and rescue dogs from a shelter to burn. ( worst part of book. too many a(prenominal) details. ) As Todd grades drop further his guidance proponent trys to set up a meeting between him and his parents. Todd black-males Dussander into pretending that he is his grandfather and harvest-festival with the meeting without his real parents. Todd is told that if he gets another flunk card that he will have to repeat this grade . One night subsequently having listened too so many of the horrible stories he has a nightmare.These dreams keep for weeks and eventually Todd comes up with a plan to kill dussander. W hen nightmares continue to get worse Todd stabs a homeless man to death and realizes that murder suffices with his stress and the dreams start to go away . he continues to commit murder whenever the dreams get too bad. Dussander starts too do the same as Todd and buries his victims in his basement. towards the end of the story the guidance counselor meets Todds real grandfather and starts too lecturing about the meeting they had and when the grandfather dident remember the conversation he puts the pieces together. orgasm chapter 17. his is the climax of the story because at this point the entire story changes. Dussander had a heart attack and this leads to new situations that completely change the story. The resolution of this story is that todd bowden is questrioned by the police. After this he goes to a secret spto on the highway. Gets a gun, and goes on a rampage. Only to end in his own death. I think this was a great ending to the story. If fit perfect with all the little det ails that were put into the book. It all fits together at the end. moving-picture show Todd Bowden Main character of the book. He is shown as decieving and mean.Througout the novella todd tricks and manipulated people into doing things that could help himself and hurt others. He is important to the story because without him nothing would have happened and it wouldent be a good book. Arthur Denker AKA Mr. Dussander main character. Shown as a nice man but forceful when need be and his past shows him as a heller. He is important to the story because he feeds all of todds rage to him and is an opponent to the story. Todds personality chapter 6. this shows Todds evil side and proves just how much of a monster he can be to put an old man throug this peevish time again.Todd is not the kind of person I would like to be friends with. He is a lieing kid who is extremly mean. And throughout the book he is seen by his peers as a loser. Conflict One main conflict in this story is when Todds grades start too fall. He constantly changes them to deceive his parents and when he is confronted by his guidance counselor about it he decides to lie about his situation in hopes to fix it. Todd has Dussander go to the school and talk to the counselor instead of his parent to sweep the problem under the rug. This fixes one of his problems but makes life much more difficult in the informality of the story.I can relate to some of todds problems like falling grades sometimes and feeling like your stuck in a place that your know wont lead anywhere good. But as for the rest of his problems like where to inter his victims I cannot say that I have any experience in. musical composition one main theme of this novella is deception and black-male can only get you so far, because when the time comes for the truth it will only take in you down. This is shown when todds grandfather meets the counselor and realizes that todd lied to his parents about his grades and the whole situation unf olds.