Last Blogpost...Ever?

What do you think is the main message that the author is trying to et across to you in your book? This main message is the theme of the book. Provide three quotes from your book to back up your answer.

In the Drama Study Booklet we had to complete, I wrote that the author believes for the main theme that abuse and familial neglect can lead to murder. The reason I believe this is for many reasons.

To understand why I believe this, one must understand that Cassie's mom, Lorelai, was murdered. Cassie has many flashbacks to the night she found her, including this one: "I'm standing in blood. There's blood on the walls, blood on my hands. A lamp lies shattered on the wood floor. A desk upturned, and there's a jagged line in the floorboards," (245).

Later on, you discover a close mentor of Cassie's is Lorelai's sister, Lacey Locke. She tells Cassie about their childhood. She says, "At night, when Daddy went away and the monster came out to play, [Lorelai] made him angry. She made him angry on purpose so he'd hit her instead of me," (290). This is the abuse part of why I think the author believes what she believes.

Locke then proceeds to tell Cassie that Lorelai left home--and her little sister with their father. She was obviously upset about the neglect from her sister, but so upset to the point that she wanted to kill her. "Eventually, I stopped dreaming about finding her and being a family again, and I started dreaming about finding her and hurting her, the way Daddy hurt me. Making her pay for leaving me there. Peeling off her face until no one thought she was the pretty one, until just looking at her made you scream ... But by the time I found her ... it was too late. She was already dead. She was gone, and it wasn't fair. I was supposed to kill her. I was supposed to be the one ... there was this junkie at my motel. She was cheap and loose and dirty, and her hair was the exact right shade of red. I killed her, and I said, 'How do you like that, Lore?' I carved her up until I could imagine Lorelai's face underneath, and God, it felt good," (293). 

As one can see, due to the abuse and neglect from her own family, Agent Locke's life began with violence and ended with violence (as she was shot by Michael before she could kill Cassie). These quotes are the reasons I think that the author believes abuse and familial neglect can lead to murder.

Thank you, and goodbye, as this is my last blogpost...ever.

Signing off,
Jordan Barger :)