Literary Luminator: Section 4

This section was so critical and the turning point of the plot. I chose three passages that are either important to the plot or just board wise statements that make us think.

"Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean. It's like how turning on a light makes you realize how dark the room had gotten. And the way you usually act, the things you would have normally done, are like the things that you everyone can see but pretends not to." p. 144

I chose this because I think it really can speak to everyone. I never really thought of Miranda as a mean girl until this passage and now that it was brought to our attention I can definitely see where Miranda would be considered a mean girl. What do you think it was that made Miranda do a 160 with her mean girl behavior?

"My brain was doing that thing where it yells at me. It was yelling "The laughing man stole Jimmy's Fred Flinstone bank? The laughing man?" p. 151

This is where things kind of started to click for me. I realized the laughing man had a much larger part in the plot than I had realized. Different parts started clicking for me, like why Colin, Annemarie and Miranda's job at Jimmy's was included in the story and the importance of Belle and the two-dollar bills.

"42. On the other side of the street I saw Marcus, still hunched over on the curb and crying hard. I could see him shaking. Behind him stood the boys from the garage, so still and silent that they looked like a picture of themselves. 43. Sal was not dead. The laughing man saved his life. 44. You saved Sal's life." p. 162

It was hard for me to pick the most important part of this turning chapter, but I think these few lines really get the main point across. How shocked were you when you read this part? I couldn't put the book down after this!