1) Who is responsible for Katie Mackey's death?
- Multible people are responsible for Katie's death. One of them being Henry Dees. He was in the car with Katie when Ray picked her up. The first sign that Mr. Dees should have saw was the fact that Ray was taking pills. Making Ray incapable of making rational decisions. Another clue that Mr. Dees should have noticed was the fact that Ray passed the library with both of them in the car, indicating he wasn't really planning on stopping there. When he got out he could have taken Katie with him. The other person is Raymond Wright. He did the actually killing of Katie Mackey. Greed always got the best of him, in most aspects of his life. Especially when it came to money. They both could have prevented her death, instead they both contributed to it.
2) How did Lee Martin's style of writing influence your reading of the novel?
- While reading the novel he made you feel what they were feeling. In each perspective of the characters story, you would see how they contributed to the disaster. You would see what each character saw in the other characters. For instance, when Mr. Dees went into JCPenny to look for a vest. Gilley saw him more as a lonely, innocent, shy man. In the eyes of Clare he was a pervert. Then when you read Mr. Dee's stories you will find out that he just loved Katie as one of his own. Lee Martin also made you slowly think how everyone's story was slowly connected, how each person got involved.
For the first response, how could you argue that is was just simply these two men responsible for what happened? What other factors, influences, or even people helped to push them into the roles that they played in this tragedy?
ReplyDeleteFor the second: How was the experience of reading this novel different from novels that you have read on the past? Point out some specific ways that it might have deviated from that experience.
1) Some factors that could have potentially helped push the characters into their roles could have been influences in there childhood, how they grew up, or the people around them. For instance, Mr. Dees grew up with parents who were older than most. His parents didn't really show affection towards Henry. So while he was growing up, he didn't know how to show affection back. Most things he did people would view odd or creepy. He grew up being an out outcast. For Ray, he grew up having nothing. He was always on the outside looking in. Unlike Henry, he wanted to be one of the insiders so badly. His childhood experience was at lunch. How he would be at a table with all the other kids who didn't have enough for a hot plate lunch. That made him who he is today. He would do anything he could do to not go back to feeling that bad. He wanted a garage and a porch and he knew he didn't have the money to pay for one, so he stole all the bricks.
ReplyDelete2)This novel worked backwards. It started out telling you who, but you don't know how or why. Most novels, you don't learn to the very end on who did it. This novel also gave the background story one 4 different characters. In the end you find out how there stories all come together. In other novels, the connection is usually pointed out in the beginning.