Beyond Silence: Book Report
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Beyond Silence: Book Report
I wrote this one for my sister. She was in 8th grade at the time, so i wouldn't use this for a high school paper. I don't remember the questions I was answering in each section either, but it is pretty self explanatory in some parts. Good Luck
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Language Arts
Beyond Silence
Book Report
I. Plot
A. The two opposing characters in this story are Phineas, and Andrew. Phineas is a middle aged man who stays at the castle every summer; he is working on his doctoral dissertation, and wants to use Andrew to help him complete it. He is very driven, but takes other people for granted. Andrew is a 16 year old boy who is coming to visit the castle with his dad, he is still trying to cope with his older brothers death, which he feels responsible for. These two characters are engaged in conflict because of a combination of several things. When Andrew came to Scotland he began having "visions" of a girl who used to live near the castle he is visiting, he accidentally describes one of these experiences to Phineas. Phineas calls what is happening to Andrew "edetic experience" and Phineas just happens to be writing his doctoral dissertation on "edetic experiences", Phineas hopes to force Andrew to tell him all of these experiences so he can complete his dissertation with documented evidence. Andrew doesn't want to be used like this, after his brother died everyone was asking him questions about "how he felt," and he doesn't want to relive the experience. He also feels that by telling about these experiences he will be betraying the girl he is having the "visions" of.
B. The most significant event in the rising action part of the story was when Andrew ran out of the castle into the stormy night to the old greenhouse. At the greenhouse he sees Deirdre, which is a little strange since she died in 1944, and it is in the 70's in the book. When Andrew sees Deirdre he calls out her name,...