-In hospital whole time – uses flashbacks to
tell story of his life.
-Gabriel’s home life
o Parents
abusive
o Thinks
its aunt is his caretaker, but it’s a nurse from the hospital.
o Vernon-
brother, older, mental disability. Gabriel accidently kills by putting him in
the refrigerator to stop his screaming
o Surrender-
dog, Finnigan and Gabriel’s both own him. Gabriel father makes him shoot him
because Surrender kills another animal.
Flashbacks
o Finnigan
and Gabriel meet
o Make
a deal- That Finnigan can do bad things
as long as Gabriel does good things.
o Setting
fires – Finnigan sets fire all over the town. No one can figure out who it is. The Dad starts a group to
find the arsonist, but does not.
o Family
issues- tells Finnigan about how he killed his brother by putting him in the
fridge to stop crying.
o Gabriel
meets this Evangeline
o Thinks
that Finnigan wants to kill Evangeline
§
Finnigan thinks that Evangeline is using Gabriel
and will get rid of him when she wants too.
o Mom
embarrasses him
o Dad
makes him kill Surrender
§
Surrender killed another animal
o Kills
parents
o Gets
taken away to Hospital
§
Find out that nurse is not aunt
§
That he has been in hospital whole time
o Lying
in hospital bed sees Vernon at window and flies away with him, symbolizing that
he died.
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