i no i shouldve read the book but ive had alot of trouble at home so could someone be a doll and help me out? i need to no the setting and summary of a book called "the stalker" by joan lowery nixon
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The setting is Corpus Christi, Texas.\n\nImagine being an only child with a mother who works and not having a father. You may be able to relate to this, but then imagine your mother being killed and the police, along with a few other people, think that you are the prime suspect. Your life would never be the same after an event such as this.\n\nBobbie Trax can relate to this because in the bookThe Stalker by Joan Lowery Nixon that is what happens to her. Bobbie is put in jail with a confused mind. The polices' reasoning for thinking that she is the one who killed Stella Trax, her mother, is as follows; One night, a neighbor of Bobbie's heard Bobbie and her mother arguing and then the next thing she saw was Bobbie running out of the front door. She didn't think much of it, but then the next day when she went over to Stella's house she saw Stella's dead body on the floor. Jennifer Wilcox, Bobbie's best friend, was shocked when she heard the news, but she knew that Bobbie was innocent and somehow she was going to prove it. Bobbie was a very shy person and her only friend was Jennifer. Jennifer had other friends, but both Jennifer and Bobbie were not in the popular group. Bobbie did not have the guts to kill a person and if she did she would not be able to live with herself because she would feel to guilty. Jennifer was the total opposite of Bobbie. She was a very active person. Jennifer had a lot of determination. Once she chooses to do something she does not quit until she is finished or satisfied with her work. Jennifer and Bobbie are really close and she would do anything for her.\n\nJennifer wanted to find the person that killed Stella, but she knew she would not be able to do it by herself. So she went to a few place for help and finally, Lucas Maldnaldo agreed to help her. He was a retired police detective. Lucas told Jennifer that if the case started to become dangerous he would not let her be a partner. They both searched places for clues. Lucas was very bossy and demanding, but he had more experience than Jennifer.
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I read it and found the writing style difficult to get through. I was also outraged by the double standard.  Even if she had named her lover, she would still have had a harsher punishment than the man. I thought it was an interesting insight into the way people thought and believed in that time, and a warning for modern times not to think in such a backward way.\n\nI thought it was spooky the way her lover ended up with a Scarlet Letter embedded in his flesh, hidden away under his clothes. Was it his own guilt that caused it to appear? Was it some trick or poison the doctor gave him? Was it God's punishment?  The book doesn't make that clear, making the reader decide for him- or herself.
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I am also addicted to it. I find myself constantly telling people about it. I was just wondering the same thing myself. I have looked, but I'm unable to find it. You should try ordering the book off of their website, I get the impression this book has old secrets in it.
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Find a very boring book to read.  If that doesn't work, resign yourself to being a mess tomorrow.  Nitie-nite!
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gosh just go to sparknotes.com or pinkmonkey.com lol
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Don't know if you can access this on line, but everything that happens there is explained in chapters 12 to 17 in the book "Swallowing Stones" by Joyce McDonald. The book  begins with a free and joyful act--but from then on, Michael finds it impossible even to remember what it felt like to be free and joyful.  When he fires his new rifle into the air on his seventeenth birthday, he never imagines that the bullet will end up killing someone.  But a mile away, a man is killed by that bullet as he innocently repairs his roof.  And Michael keeps desperately silent while he watches his world crumble. Meanwhile Jenna, the dead man's daughter, copes with desperation of her own.  Through her grief, she tries to understand why she no longer feels comfortable with her boyfriend and why a near stranger named Michael keeps appearing in her dreams.\n\nSuspenseful and powerfully moving, this is the unforgettable story of an accidental crime and its haunting web of repercussions. \n\nYou should read it!
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tha past is tha past jus talk to her about tha book
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It's short and to the point. The pain comes through uncomfortably. \n\nIt leaves no doubt about what it's about, yet leaves a lot to the imagination. I'm assuming the author meant to make the reader feel something, especially pain, grief and loss.  If so, they accomplished their goal. \n\nI'm interested in the "weird" book you found it in. What book?
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We are talking Ibsen here, right? OK, how about this.\n\nIn A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen raises the question of happiness still relevant in our time. The author presents a situation where one of the female protagonists is forced by society to sacrifice her personal fulfilment on the altar of social conventions.\n\nThat was so far the formulation of the question. Now we proceed with the analysis. \n\nFrom the first pages of the book, the reader witnesses the efforts of the female character to follow her duty. Yet no matter how hard she tries, she fails. At the end, she finally comes to the realization that her misery stems from misapplication of her talents. Expected to be a mother and a wife, the woman forgets about her own happiness. This is not the way, the author seems to tell us. The young woman's depression creates an unpleasant atmosphere in the house which affects even the well being of the little children.\nThis is essentially the reason for the mother leaving her children at the end. Only by declaring her independence from the patriarchal society, can she find her own happiness. And only then, will she be able to give her offspring what they deserve, a peaceful atmosphere in the house, genarated by the contedness of each individual.\nAs Ibsen  unequivocally shows us, one has to follow his won dreams and raise the new generation according to similar ideals of self fulfillment and independence. This, according to the author, is the key to happy society in general, and family life in particular.\n\nOk, this is the gist of it. You can change what doesn't fit your thoughts, and add, to present your own opinion.\nHope this helps.
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ok. i read it for my gt class too. it was stupid, but its about some boy named gene and his best friend finney. finney broke his leg and gene feels that he let finney broke it. they live in the same dorm and go to a school named Devon. they had to go to war. i dont noe the rest. didnt read the rest. didnt matter though cuz my english class didnt ask too many questions about it.
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Try watching the movie... it'll help put some of this into perspective too.  The book is definitley better, but the movie is one of my all time favorites.
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It`s called a stalker.Tell her wat your telling me.IDIOT!!!!!!
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ok, I did some searching for you myself and I found the book in Amazon.com. It is in there out of print section with limited availabilty. When you get to the Amazon site either type name of book or author and do search. I found it by doing author. Hope this helps!
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Looks like an interesting series of books by Cate Tiernan.  Had to go to Borders to find it.\n\nFrom reading the excerpts it appears to be sort of a 'diary' of a young teen just coming into her own.  She has a lot of decisions to make and a big revelation to cope with.  I'm hoping the series does not get too 'dark', but hey, life has it's darkness sometimes. If you learn something to help you cope with this world, go for it. "an harm none"  So mote it be. \n\nI am surprised no one has even attempted to answer your question, I'm hoping there are readers out there and not everyone lives on the net!
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Private Investigator, Nat Marley, ran across his old friend, Annie, who had become homeless.  When Annie fainted from a heart condition, Marley applied first aid until the ambulance arrived to transport her to the hospital.  \nThe woman decided it was necessary to make out her willand asked Marley to find her son, Jackie.  \nBecause of his kindness to Annie, Nat was approached by a rich widow named Joanna Whittaker.  Mrs. Whittaker told Nat he resembled her late husband and she wanted to give him all her properties.  Mrs. Whittakers maid, Martha, overheard this offer.  She had been convinced all the properties would become hers when Mrs. Whittaker died and now realized that was not to be. In her rage, she killed Mrs. Whittaker, stole what money she could get her hands on and fled to Las Vegas where she lost it all gambling.\n[very rough, but I think it gives you an idea of the proper voice and procedures]
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Ok....heres what i came up with...Feel free 2 change or leave out any part that you dont like! hope this helps...\n\n~Ok have her sitting there on the train right next to the bathroom door and out comes a big fat old nasty man(he has flies swarming around him) with a newspaper in his hand. Make it obvious with her and others around her that he just got done taking a dump and it smells awfull! She asks him if hes done with that paper and he tells her sure but if shes gonna dump off a load she should open a window or give it 20 mins and to use the tissues outta her bra(when he says this she tucks her hands in her bra) cuz he ran outta toilet paper and had 2 use a section of the newspaper. He hands her the paper and she smells it...it stinks...she opens it and finds a couple(like a handfull) of dead flies in the paper. She looks around and sees an open little red bag (like a mini peanut bag that they give on airplanes)sitting on the seat between her and the sleeping person beside her(The small bag is just sitting proped up on the seat between them.) she takes the dead flies and puts them in a small red bag   . After she puts the dead flies in there she sits the bag back between them on the seat. She flips through the paper and looks through the adds. She starts vigarously circling ones that says slutty skanky jobs like escort service, stripper, pimp lookin for a hoe...stuff like that, X's through decent ones that says Business Executive, Administrative Secretary, Legal Aid...stuff like that...you see her doing this quickly.\n\n *Camera shots* glance on the ads shes circling and Xing out but only quick enough for us to read the ad and see how shes marking it!\n\nThen all of a sudden she draws a line through the 3 skanky jobs...(its like shes playing tic-tac-toe in the ad section) She stands up and yells "BINGO" people around her give her strange looks as she awkwardly appologizes and sits down. Her outburst startled the sleeping person beside her and now they are awake. As she goes back to the ad pages...looking at certain ads and giving weird and disgusted facial expressions as she reads them...(We dont see what shes reading...we just see her face) in the background we see the nolonger sleeping passanger beside her reach for the bag of nuts. You see them pour some in their hand and toss them into their mouth. Then she finds the ad about the hospice caregiver and starts to read the ad out loud saying how it fits her perfectly cuz she kind and caring and always wants to help others...(as shes reading this we see the person beside her eating the peanuts w/ the flies in them make weird faces while eating the peanuts...realizing something in not quite right) meanwhile the person next to her has started choking on the peanuts and is tapping her on her shoulder...(when shes going through her caring about others speach) and signals shes choking...Caroline rolls her eyes and says..."in a minute...im reading" the tapping continues more desperately now and Caroline says " you can have it when im finished"...the tapping continues Caroline throws her hands up and unknowingly elbows the person in the face knocking them back into the corner...it looks like their sleeping. Caroline turns around with a p*ssed off look on her face and sees the "sleeping" person and gets this wondering look her her face, shrugs it off and goes back to readin her ad. she goes to cirlcle the ad but her pen wont write so she shakes it...(like giving a handjob) it finally explodes all over the back of the person in front of her(maybe the size of a fist). She quickly pulls out some tissues from her bra an makes the small stain a HUGE one... the person turns around and its a clown dressed in a business suit. He asks what the trouble is and she said its her pen "it wont write" so he says "here, use mine"...so she circles the add and then it suddenly disappears(play eerie music...her face shows its kinda creep
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At least 50 other people have asked about this book in Yahoo Answers....\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result;_ylt=AnJvAfFnD688l1mzJFzQz6bpy6IX?p=Night+Elie\n\nI would start there.